The Apostle Peter Vatican City T-Shirt

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It is always amazing to me how early artists used their art for story-telling purposes, and how much symbolism they could manage to cram into a painting or a statue.
Even with only a passing familiarity with Christianity, one might be able to identify the lower statue in St Peter’s Square in Vatican City as being of Peter, since he is holding keys in his right hand, a symbol of the power promised to him by Christ. Sometimes in Rome you just stop seeing the statues since there are so many of them everywhere you look, and most of the time you don't recognize who they might be anyway. All those obscure and long-ago saints.... But I admit to screeching to a halt in front of this one! Thinking to myself "I know who that is!" Pius IX (1846-1878) decided to replace older statues of Sts. Peter and Paul, with the current larger ones on Easter 1847. The previous pope, Gregory XVI (1831-1846) had commissioned Giuseppe De Fabris to sculpt this statue for St. Paul Outside-the-Walls from 1838...

Protected with PIXSY About Joan Carroll: I am a Fort Worth Texas-based outdoor photographer who feels at home while on the road...in Texas, in the US, around the world. Although travel and photography were dual interests from a young age, the coming of the digital camera provided undreamed of opportunities and unleashed previously untapped creativity. My photographic goal is to travel the world in a curious yet respectful way, taking the time to see and understand the unique story of each place I visit. Wherever I go I want to walk every street, hike every trail, ride the bus or metro, climb every tower, walk around and through every monument, and then do it all over again when the light changes. In every place, light, mood, color, and...

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