The coolfest continues as Rome gets hot, hot, hot! It seems that summer is upon us. It’s been blissfully breezy and cool in the Eterna through most of May, June, and early July, but this week the mercury’s soaring.
When it’s hot in Rome, it’s time to head outside–at least in the evenings when the temperatures drop a bit. We’ve been following tradition and dragging everyone out of the Compound each eve. We feed our sweaty team a pizza and an ice cream, stroll about, and do a bit of shopping (it’s sale season, after all). Given the wealth of street entertainment, there’s never a shortage of things too look at, especially if our stroll takes us down Via del Corso, where break dancers, mimes, accordion players, and street painters abound.
We always like to check in with the guy shown in the photo above. He’s there on Via del Corso each and every day, reproducing one of Caravaggio’s famed paintings for the enjoyment of the crowd. On a recent walkabout, we admired his version of the Supper at Emmaus, which he’s been working on for some time. His is a chalk reproduction of the version that’s in the Brera in Milan–not that of the same theme that’s in the National Gallery in London–and we think it’s hot stuff.
