Spiral Staircase Revisited - Square version
by Weston Westmoreland
Title
Spiral Staircase Revisited - Square version
Artist
Weston Westmoreland
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
Vatican Museum - Spiral Staircase by Giuseppe Momo, 1932. Revisited square version 2017.
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 zillions of 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 even tried to find the girl looking up from the bottom. She made me think of the great pictures in which I may happen to appear and that I will never know of. I posted about it on my blog (http://inspiringthoughtsandimages.com/chapter-15-girl-spiral-staircase-rome/) and added the exact date when the pic was shot. I would like to find her and send her a copy. Just imagine her face :)
There are thousands of pictures of this beauty. What makes this one special is that it shows both arms of the spiral, which cannot be achieved with a single shot unless you completely distort the image with a a wide angle lens. And it is a tricky image because the pictures that compose it are long exposures shot on a diving position in a place where tripods are not allowed. Tricky business, I tell you. Needless to say this is one of my pics I love most, right?
More amazing staircases a quick copy-paste away in my gallery at https://weston-westmoreland.pixels.com/collections/staircases
More amazing views of Rome a quick copy-paste away in my gallery at https://weston-westmoreland.pixels.com/collections/rome
Weston Westmoreland
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November 1st, 2017
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