Asking an art expert to pick a favorite piece of art is probably a bit like asking a parent to pick a favorite child. They all have redeeming qualities, after all. But asking a sap like me – a complete non-expert – to choose a favorite piece of art in Italy is far less complicated. It’s all about tugging at heartstrings.
When the topic for this month’s Italy Blogging Roundtable – favorite art in Italy – was chosen, I had only a few eliminations to make from my initial list. I could have easily chosen perhaps my favorite church anywhere, Venice’s stunning St. Mark’s Basilica, or the similarly glowing mosaics in Ravenna’s San Vitale. I could have picked the room full of enormous Botticelli masterpieces in Florence’s Uffizi, so big they take your breath away. In the end, however, I kept coming back to the building that remains my favorite in Rome, and always brings a lump to my throat, without fail, when I step inside.
The Pantheon.
