Sorry for not posting much at all this week; homework and all the other little things have been taking up time, and the weekends have been a bit busier than I would like. We've found a really awesome Irish pub near here that takes up our Friday and Saturday nights, so I'm going to go ahead and blame that.
This week has been a little bit more work heavy than last, but I'm still trying to get into "school mode". Not having a design internship over the summer kinda didn't help. For one of my class projects I have to document one of the piazzas around here, so for mine I chose Capitoline Hill, one of the oldest of the seven ancient Roman fortress-hills. It's from this place that we derive the word "Capitol", since it was the head of government and religion at various times in Roman history. There is a temple to Jupiter, and an ancient Tabularium where records were kept in the 7th-1st century BCE. There's also a statue of Marcus Aurelius, the philosopher emperor, in the center of the square (it's a copy of the original of course). The entire area was redesigned by Michaelangelo during the Renaissance, but it hasn't seen much use since then.
I snapped some photos and did a watercolor drawing while sitting around there. People watching is a lot of fun in the square. Over the course of a few hours I saw a couple of wedding parties which came through for photos. There's a lot of tourists walking around too, kind of annoying because they can get in your way when you're trying to draw something. I still gotta come back and do a bunch more sketches, and maybe a few etchings. The square might stand out the most, but the little things are more interesting for me.
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