Three Churches (Part Two)
Over the past two weeks, we have visited three distinctive churches that each took our breath away in different ways. The first is rarely seen. The second is seen by almost every tourist in Rome. And the last is one of those masterworks of architecture that really must be seen to be fully appreciated So to follow-up on our earlier post of looking at churches in sets of threes, here comes Three Churches (Part Two). Let’s begin with San Lorenzo in Miranda, the church that is rarely seen. Each Friday we were at the American Academy, I took part in the “Fellows Walk.” The last of those – for us – took place a week ago Friday and it was titled “The Presence of Absence: The Medieval Roman Forum.” I’ll turn to the AAR’s description of the walk to fill you in on the focus: Rome brims with a seemingly endless number of sites that loom large in the popular imagination. But how does the imagined city compare to our actual, sensory experience of Rome? …
