Place to see: Vatican Museum, Rome, Italy

Postcards about Vatican Museum:

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  21 June 2008
  From:
  Anne Beach

  The Vatican Museums were overwhelmingly magnificent. Your mind almost has to re-invent itself just to be able to make space for the uncountable versions and variety of beauty. It is almost too overwhelming. I had to slow down and try to focus on one sector at a time, or I ended up feeling like I had seen nothing. It felt like our family reunions where there are fifty of us, and I leave feeling like I saw everybody, but, alas, I didn't really see anybody. Focus on one member at a time to prevent a relative overload.

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  21 June 2008
  From:
  Anne Beach

  Poetry is marked by its intensity and justaposition of images, the layers of meaning and interpretation, the voices searching for truth. The Vatican museum is very much like an unending poem, one verse at a time-- such intensity, meaning and such universal searches for God, truth, beauty, man himself Do you remember reading T. S. Eliot, when each page had half a page of footnotes? So complex, hard work, but very rewarding. Sometimes though, we must stop and consider one image at a time to fully delve into the poem. Considering images separately, but also together
  fulfills the arduous pilgrimage.