Showing posts with label Capitoline Museums. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Capitoline Museums. Show all posts

Monday, October 20, 2008

Florence

Florence is nice because I think it has many things that are cool. Some of them are that the people are nice and they say "ciao." And some things are that they have a lot of people (more in Rome). I didn't like that sometimes if we were going somewhere there would be a loooooooooong line. But it eventually goes down. It is worth waiting in line because the museum there is great. And inside was Botticelli's "Birth of Venus."

Thursday, August 21, 2008

The Museum


We went to a museum in Rome [The museums at Capitoline hill, above the Forum-K]. Did you know what museums in Rome are like? Here are some pictures from the museum. I'll tell you which one is which.


[Below] This is the she-wolf with Romulus and Remus. She raised them because Mars told her to take care of them. It happened a long time ago, before Rome was founded by Romulus.


Here is another picture. This is baby Hercules. Legend says that Hercules was the baby of the king of the Gods, Zeus. After Hercules' mother died, the step-mother put two snakes in his cradle. Eventually, he killed the snakes.


These are griffins. They each have two lion feet, a lion tail, and the rest is an eagle body.


[Below] Do you know who that is? Do you think it is Zeus? I do, too.