Losing Sight of the Big Picture and Looking at the Parts to Get it Back

There is so much to say but such a difficulty to express everything in words or even thoughts as opposed to feelings and understanding. Today we went to the Vatican Museum and the Sistene Chapel. It was so overwhelming that you begin to just waltz by magnificent objects and works of art not really caring as you did in the beginning. That is the way it is in the entire city of Rome and with this whole trip, you can only take in so much and as the day goes on things lose meaning and significance that they would have had in the morning or on another day. So I will talk of one thing at a time and hope that you will all hold the enthusiasm that you should have when thinking of what has to be said. When I got overwhelmed in the Vatican Museum, I just went to the Sistene Chapel, sat in the back and focused on two things, "The Last Judgement" and the painting of the Last Supper. It was just fascinating to actually take time and disect the paintings and see all they had to offer. I personally had not done in depth research about these paintings, so seeing the contrast of colors and objects in the paintings to make you think on their meanings was just a treat. When I noticed the little demon on Judas' shoulder in the last supper and the dark cloud behind the crucified Jesus in the window shown in the back right of the painting, made me look at the whole picture a lot differently, made me notice other things because of the connotation of the things I saw before. The Last Judgement is just overwhelming as a whole, it just never seems to stop. There seems to be paintings withing the painting, just too much to go over in such a place as this. Perhaps another blog, by another blogger.