Posted on 11/13/2009 6:24:49 PM PST by FoxPro
Come visit Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome!
I am warning you, if you go to this link you may be stuck on this website for hours, as I was yesterday:
http://www.vatican.va/various/basiliche/san_giovanni/vr_tour/Media/VR/Lateran_Apse/index.html
A map of the project is here:
http://www.vatican.va/various/basiliche/san_giovanni/vr_tour/index-it.html
An article about the project is here:
http://cnsblog.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/inside-scoop-on-vaticans-groundbreaking-virtual-tour/#comment-10076
And the real reason I am posting this is my question.
When will the other Vatican related buildings pictorial projects be finished? I cant figure this out.
How will we know?
Where will they be posted?
Is there a good site out there that we can use to find out the artists and history of the objects we are looking at? It is almost overwhelming.
This was posted here at freerepublic.com yesterday, but it didn't get any legs. I want to give it a second try, since it is so amazing. It is arguably, in some ways better than actually being there, as you can zoom into different parts of the building that would be impossible to do while standing on the floor if you were actually there.
Job's family was dead, his fields barren and burned, his servants and army killed by his enemy, so Job sat around a fire with his friends. The friends urged Job to curse God for his travail. Job sat in sackcloth, with ashes on his head, blessing God.
When all looks dark, remember the 23rd Psalm. It's only the valley of the shadow, not death itself! There is light at the end of the tunnel.
You have inspired me.
I am tough. I will get through this.
nice
I am not Catholic. In fact, I’m not the least bit religious and never have been. I was raised an agnostic. But I grateful for the beauty that the church has collected. I suspect that ever piece of mosaic, every statue, every painting was made and or paid for with reverence. Without the church, none of this beauty would exist. The world would be a lot poorer if all of our ancestors had been Quakers and worshiped between whitewashed walls.
I'm not too religious myself. I am a Christian. It's a life choice.
Without Christ, there is no world! His church is not in a building, and those riches are still just idols to me. I love art, and beauty. I am fortunate to live near DC, with lots of museums.
The Roman Catholic church is just hoarding it's wealth, and supporting themselves. Any outreach is done by the Christians working through that system. I look on them as any other cult of man. They claim exclusivity, and salvation through membership.
This world is temporary to a Christian. I believe there are better things to worship than art...
Thanks for playing!
Quakers keep a pretty clean house for Him... and worship the Creator, not the creation.
Don’t know about hours, but maybe 1/2 hour. Quite awesome at 1920 x 1200 on a large screen monitor with a fast computer/connection, especially once I got the feel for interactively quickly panning, rotating & zooming with a wheeled mouse.
What a big steaming heap of anti-Catholic lies.
“Not trying to be negative, just asking a question.”
Yeah, right.
Yes.
Bzzzzzzzzzzzt.
More false testimony about the Catholic Church from WVKayaker, as is per usual.
Give a man a fish ... (you do know the rest, don’t you?)
Sorry, all the pertinent arguments have been argued. And yes, I was just asking, all else just happened to knee jerk responses to my question.
Riiiiiiiiiiiiight.
Weak comment.
I see nothing false in his statement.
I'm so glad to live in your mind rent free. Thanks for playing.
I'm not going to respond again... I have toenails to cut!
Piling on, eh?
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That is part of your problem.
I had to do a search on that one. LOL
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