May 2016

BOLIVIA, Chapare Women picking coca leaves in traditional commercial coca growing area mainly for cocaine. ©Brian Moser / Eye Ubiquitous / Hutchison Picture Library

By Ryan Connolly

ITALY Rome Lazio One of the restored classical statues of the Dioscuri Castor and Pollux at the top of the Cordonata on the Capitoline

By Ryan Connolly

ITALY Rome Lazio Palazzo Dei Conservatore courtyard part of the Capitoline Museums with a giant marble head and arm from an ancient 4th Century colossus statue of Emperor Constantine I

By Ryan Connolly

ITALY Rome Lazio Broken seated statue between two columns at the entrance of the Temple of Antoninus and Faustina in the Forum

By Ryan Connolly

ITALY Rome Lazio Detail of a dolphin on the Fountain of Piazza Della Rotonda by Giacomo Della Porta in 1575 with a religious fresco on the wall of a building beyond

By Ryan Connolly

ITALY Rome Lazio Piazza della Rotonda seen through the granite columns of the Pantheon with tourists walking in the square

By Ryan Connolly

ITALY Rome Lazio Capitoline Museum Palazzo Dei Conservatore Greek marble copy after the bronze of the head of an Amazon created for artistic contests at Ephesus between 440-430 BC

By Ryan Connolly

ITALY Lazio Rome Vatican City Museums The Cortille della Pigna a huge bronze pine cone from a Roman fountain in a niche below the Papal heraldic crest in a niche by Pirro Ligorio on the Belvedere Palace

By Ryan Connolly