Today, on Photo Friday, photographer Susan Sanders takes us to the Palatine Hill for a walk through an underground passageway, or cryptoportiucs, that served as an underground passageway for the Domus Tiberiana or Palace of Tiberius allowing easy movement from one side of the palace to another.
Susan shot this photo on a dark and rainy day, so that only the dim light thrown into the passageway by means of the windows in the vault gives pattern and texture to the mosaic floor below.
To enjoy more of Susan’s photographs of Rome, visit her photo blog: Rome With A View.
Sometimes the wind is against me.
I breathe it only because I have to.
I suck it in and spit it out cursing.
But today we’re going the same way.
And it’s everything I can do.
To stay on the ground.
Botticelli’s Birth of Venus (see below) seems to be the most advertised artwork of the year. The painting was cleverly remade in an advertisement for Renaissance Hotels and now the Zephyrs or Winds that blow Venus to shore in the original painting star in an inspiring ad from Reebok (see above).
Agency: mcgarrybowen, New York, United States
Creative Directors: Lew Willig & Mark Koelfgen
Art Director: Lew Willig
Copywriter: Mark Koelfgen
Photographer: Kai Uwe Gundlach
