Submitted by Alison Spiller on the 2022 winter session program in Italy sponsored by the Department of Philosophy…
The program is coming to an end as it is our last week in Rome. This past Monday, we have seen a Moses with Horns which is a sculpture of Moses, but was mistranslated and the sculptor created horns that were not supposed to be there. There are multiples of these sculptures in Italy. Castro Pretorio has a fountain of one of these Moses with Horns. The sculptor of this fountain ended up committing suicide as his work of art was constantly compared to the Trevi Fountain. Around the corner from Castro Pretorio was Santa Maria Della Vittorio, a beautiful church. The martyr, Vittorio, is in the church and on display. You can see part of her skull and original teeth. To wrap up Monday, we visited the last church Michelangelo designed before his death. In this church, we were able to see the Meridian Light. This light is an old way of being able to tell what day of the year it is by the way the sun hits the glass at noon and shines onto a line on the floor.
