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| This large billboard was outside the train station. No, I haven't a clue what it's about either. Who or what is the Dildo Society? |
Also, it was snowing!
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| You can't see it, but I've got my feet wrapped in plastic bags to keep the wet out. |
This is an interior doorway:
The Palazzo was a palace belonging to the Farnese family, who produced a bunch of dukes, cardinals and popes in the 15th thru 17th Century.
This is the private theatre in the palace - just gorgeous:
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| Built 1618, rebuilt 1962 |
The Palazzo now contains a rather awesome art gallery full of medieval paintings (no photos allowed, sadly) and an archaeological museum:
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| Neolithic Goddess |
We went to another gallery, the Pinacoteca Stuard, where I found one of the most inappropriate and cringingly embarrassing paintings of biblical heroes ever wrought by the hand of man. How I laughed...
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| "Samuel educates the young boy David to the sound of the harp" (or "Get your hand off my ass, you pervert") by Giovanni Gaibazzi (1808-1888) |
And the Cathedral baptisty:
which is rather lovely...
... to look for angels and demons. Here's some funky cherubim:
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| Can you imagine what they'd look like in real life?! |
And then we went to the Cathedral:
It was full of frescoes, including the usual cheerfully sadistic demon/hellfire stuff. No photography allowed again ... but the GIANT wall painting of Christ spurting his blood all over a grateful world was just so fab I had to sneak an illicit pic:
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| Catholicism: fifty shades of bugshit-crazy. |
Mr Ashbless says he looks like SpiderJesus ("spins a web any size, catches sinners just like flies").
We didn't eat any parma ham. But we did buy some violet-flavoured jelly.
Parma ham
Parma ham
Goes nicely with
Some violet jam
Guess which earworm I've got right now?
*sigh*
5 comments:
"Spider Jesus" - brilliant!
Oh my god, you've picked up a Spam Editor! The cheek of them.
Great photos! I see the new pope looks like a Nerd Pope, but I'm not fooled.
I know someone who just walked around Prague in plastic bags in the snow too :)
Spam Editor???
There was a spam comment evaluating your writing before - seems they've moved on from 'this is an interesting post, it's very interesting and enlightening, I would like to read more posts like this'.
Oh yeah - I go through every couple of days and delete all those. The spam filter isn't working the way it used to.
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