Bucket List

...it's in Rome, more specifically, it's in Vatican City...

...if you enter St. Peter's Basilica, it is displayed inside of the first chapel on the right...

...sculpted from a block of marble, the work is 76.8inches x 68.5 inches, wide at the bottom and tapering to the top, a pyramid shape, completed in two years, from 1498-1499, by Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni...

For me, this is the most masterful, the most compelling, the most so-good-that-frankly-it's-disturbing piece of artwork ever created.  I'd like to see it in person one of these days.

But, when my brother-in-law was in Rome this past summer, he stopped by to have a look and he got me this:

So any time I have a hankering to see it, I just put this little guy up on a shelf and I can pretend I'm actually there, in Rome, looking at it.  And it's just small because I'm standing way in the back.


Cheers.