Sunday, June 29, 2008

Stendhal syndrome

This photo was taken inside the Vatican museum. (Needless to say, it is a "cropped" version of a bigger photo!) It pretty much sums up the reaction of being overwhelmed by the fantastic artworks in Roman Musei Vaticani, Musei Capitolini, Galleria Borghese & Florentine Galleria degli Uffizi, Galleria dell'Academia, Museo del Bargello & numerous other galleries/musea. Especially Florence, being the home of da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Donatello (all artists; not Ninja turtles), Galileo, Botticelli, Vespucci, Machiavelli, Dante, Boccaccio, Ms. Nightingale & many others... just too many for a single city!

5 comments:

Rohan said...

The Ninja turtles joke is stolen from an XKCD comic.

Unknown said...

Was this pic taken specifically for blog purposes /:) ?

Rohan said...

nope... it is a coincidence.
Look: http://picasaweb.google.com/rohanrailkar/Rome/photo#5215701400481757042

Anchit said...

freshie has been very politically correct to have cut out the interesting part of the pic and giving due credit to the creator of the joke :P

Rohan said...

i did want to emphasize that i cut the interesting part of the pic, thanks neways for mentioning it...