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A Dacian captive from the decorative scheme of the Forum of Trajan. Things that caught my eye in the Musei Capitolini in May 2013. #Rome #Photography

Base of the Vatican Obelisk. Brought from Egypt to Rome by Caligula in 37 AD and erected in his Circus at the Vatican Hill. Sixtus V had it moved in 1586 to the front of the Basilica. Think of the effort in both those moves! The only obelisk never to fall since Roman times. #Rome #Photography

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GHESIUS ROMANUS PO The great hall above the narthex of the Basilica of San Pietro. The central window is where the Habemus Papam announcement is made & new Popes make a first public appearance. The lettering above is at least 2 metres tall and trumpets the name of Paul V. May 2013 #Rome #Photography

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The Vittoriano peeps over the parapet of the Palazzo Nuovo. Things that caught my eye in the Musei Capitolini, Rome. May 2013. #Rome #Photography

Mannerist fresco in the Musei Capitolini of Marcus Atilius Regulus, Consul in the 3rdC BC. He had a horrible death in Carthage, where he was kept in a dark dungeon with his eyelids cut off and was then dragged out and forced to look at the midday sun. May 2013. #Rome

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Tip of the Agonalis obelisk, placed on the Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi by Bernini in 1651. The Earl of Arundel paid a deposit and attempted to ship its pieces to London in the late 1630s but Urban VIII stopped him. May 2013. #Rome #Photography

The eyes of Constantine the Great on the remains of the 4thC colossal bronze statue in the Musei Capitolini. #Rome #Photography

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Pigeon Parliament : Lords vs Commons. St Enoch Square. #Glasgow #Photography

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I like the little offices that used to be set into the arcade of the City Chambers in #Edinburgh. (David Allan, late 18thC)

LiberalDespot @druidic.org · 28/09/2026

A Magpie at Bowling on the Clyde this morning. #Scotland #Photography

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LiberalDespot @druidic.org · 28/09/2026

The grumpy man over the door of the Merchants House of Glasgow on West George Street. He may be grumpy because someone decided to drill two holes in him, or maybe because the building as a whole is filthy and covered in wires and buddleia. #Glasgow #Photography

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LiberalDespot @druidic.org · 27/09/2026

The older i get the more it seems obvious that the maxim 'don't judge by appearances' does not apply to the faces of politicians.

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LiberalDespot @druidic.org · 27/09/2026

El Nino is still rising. #endtimes : part 94

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LiberalDespot @druidic.org · 27/09/2026

Burnham models new shaggy codpiece.

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LiberalDespot @druidic.org · 26/09/2026

Nice, eh? Yet another socially regressive and backward looking sect that wants me locked up. They're not keen on women menstruating either.

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LiberalDespot @druidic.org · 26/09/2026

Frankly wierd reporting for them to not give the causes. I had to go look it up elsewhere.

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LiberalDespot @druidic.org · 25/09/2026

Different one at it tonight @anthonycarroll.bsky.social . Probably needs bollards...

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LiberalDespot @druidic.org · 24/09/2026

Why yes, the council did add that new section of pavement just for you to park on... #glasgow #yplac

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LiberalDespot @druidic.org · 24/09/2026

The Oxford Bar, one of my favourite Edinburgh watering holes, is on the cover of the new Good Beer Guide. #beer #edinburgh

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A Glasgow parking lot in Summer 1937. [Photographer, Paul Vanderbilt] #Glasgow Where might this be then Norrie? @lostglasgow.bsky.social

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Added me for scale... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palatin...

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A great surprise in 2023 was seeing these superb colossi of Hercules and Dionysus. Excavated in 1724 in the Imperial Palace on the Palatine. They have been in the Palazzo Pilotta since the 1820s - when allegedly the then-fashionable sideburns were added to Hercules... #Rome #Parma #Photography

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"Self-Portrait in Brazilian Dress" by the rather splendidly named artist Deogratias Lasagna. Galleria Nazionale di Parma. April 2023.

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Some nice work at the Scottish Glass Society's Annual Exhibition in the Trades Hall this week. Free. Last day tomorrow. #Glasgow #Glass #Glassgow

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At last. I'll be writing in support of this gate. #Glasgow #Necropolis www.heraldscotland.com/news/2656925...

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Detail of Michele Sanmicheli's 1528-1559 Pellegrini Chapel in the Convento di San Bernardino in Verona. #Photography #Verona #Architecture

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It's very satisfying. Bit dark that pic, let me reprocess the raw a bit.

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More or less equal, it's just much much bigger and has more surface to decorate.

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You should see the Organ! This is just the base of it... (oooerr)

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Original much better, though not as good/elegant as this one in the Convento di San Bernardino in Verona..

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Three Sarsen Details. Avebury. July 2013. #Photography #Megalith

Sussex Vernacular. Lewes. May 2013.

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Oliphant. Early third century BC plate from Capena depicting a war elephant with calf. National Etruscan Museum at Villa Giulia, #Rome

More like "famous for stealing half the pavement". #Glasgow

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Pretty shockingly bad work on the old bank on Sauchiehall Street. Aggressive sandblasting has wrecked surface areas of the stone (and not even got rid of the graffiti they were aiming at) and new holes in the granite for cheap brass numbers when the old bronze ones could have been used. #Glasgow

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Yes, they are. Part 2. More in the alt text. Detail of the splendid mannerist frescoes in the portico of the Villa Giulia by Pietro Venale, circa 1554. Julius III spent much of his five-year papacy, and much of the papal income, on building and decorating the Villa. May 2013. #Rome #Photography

Pope Julius III spent much of his five-year papacy, and much of the papal income, on building and decorating the Villa Giulia. His favourite, Innocenzo, was a youth he had picked up on the streets of Bologna when he was 14. When Julius became pope he immediately made Innocenzo - now 18 - a cardinal, to the great scandal of catholic Europe. This villa was built and decorated for their pleasure - which may be why there is a lot of boy-on-boy action going on in the surviving frescoes.

Details of the splendid mannerist frescoes in the portico of the Villa Giulia by Pietro Venale, circa 1554.

Yes, they are. More in the alt text. Detail of the splendid mannerist frescoes in the portico of the Villa Giulia by Pietro Venale, circa 1554. Julius III spent much of his five-year papacy, and much of the papal income, on building and decorating the Villa. May 2013. #Rome #Photography

Tomb of the Florentine painter and sculptor Antonio del Pollaiuolo and his younger brother Piero c. 1500. May 2013. #Rome #Photography

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