Spiral Staircase from below
by Weston Westmoreland
Title
Spiral Staircase from below
Artist
Weston Westmoreland
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
Momo's Spiral Staircase from below, Vatican Museums. Giuseppe Momo, 1932.
I did not expect to find the most amazing object of the whole Vatican museums in the form of a staircase on the way out. And less than a century old, at that. However, of all the beauty I found there, this is the one I remember most fondly and I actually have a big size canvas print of it in my own room. I never get tired of looking at it.
No doubt, there are countless objects of far greater value in the museums, priceless statues and sculptures thousands of years old, but I am sure the artists that made them would have stood agape at the top of this double spiral. I cannot imagine a more elegant and harmonic way to fill a hole in the ground.
I shot six photos from the floor to build this image while a patient security guard I hadn't noticed waited for me to finish. There war six other guards waiting in the adjoining hall that leads out of the premises. I was grateful to all those men who had spent the whole day herding zillions of tourists and still had the patience to wait for the final visitor who was lingering at all fours ten yards away from the door. I was last to exit the Vatican Museums that day.
More amazing staircases, sculptures and views of ancient Rome a quick copy-paste away in my gallery at tinyurl.com/CarpeSPQR.
You can learn more about what drives me in my blog:
http://inspiringthoughtsandimages.com/
Weston Westmoreland.
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September 28th, 2017
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