Centrale Montemartini

I went to the Musei Capitolini Centrale Montemartini with my architecture class today. It's an amazing and stunning old power plant that has been converted into a museum. The museum showcases classical Roman and Greek sculpture alongside the original power plant machinery. The collision of the industrial world and the ancient sculptures is a beautiful and mesmerizing juxtaposition. These are some of the photos I took there.

  

  

http://www.centralemontemartini.org/

Beauty

"In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted [...] To devote yourself to the creation and enjoyment of beauty, then, can be a serious business--not always necessarily a means of escaping reality, but sometimes a means of holding on to the real when everything else is flaking away into . . . rhetoric and plot"
— Elizabeth Gilbert