The Ecstasy of St. Teresa sculpture
The church that houses the sculpture-- so beautiful!
Santa Maria della Quattro Fontaines: this might be my favorite church so far, it is so pretty!
First glimpse of St. Peter's... wow.
We got these fun little headsets so that we could hear our teacher talk and she didn't have to yell!
To give you scale: The canopy is the equivalent of 10 stories and the entire thing can fit into the little lantern that you can see way up on top! That dome is HUGE!
Michaelangelo's "Pieta" his best sculpture that he made when he was 22! It made me feel pretty untalented... :)
"The St. Peter's Effect": In order to keep people from getting reverse vertigo, the sculptures at the top of this wall are 1/3 smaller than the ones at the base. The ones at the top are 10 stories away, but you would never guess it!
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