Ruins of Rome

Du Bellay in Rome  PDF view You who arrive to look for Rome in RomeAnd can in Rome no Rome you know discover:These palaces and arches ivied overAnd ancient walls are Rome, now Rome’s a name. Here see Rome’s overbearing overcome—Rome, who brought the world beneath her powerAnd held sway, robbed of sway: see and […]

One from Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome.  If you look in the background, you can see a picture of Jesus being laid in the tomb.  That is my favorite part of this sketch of a place with a picture in the background.

Drawn and thought at San Ignatius of Loyola in Rome.  March 2005.