{"product_id":"san-pietro-3-roma","title":"San Pietro 3, Roma","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e*All of my Travel Sketches may be re-painted by commission.  If you see one you like that is sold or you'd prefer in different colors, contact me!*\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe epic mother church - San Pietro in Roma - and its papal surroundings are intended to inspire awe. They are awesome. I thronged with the crowd to see the Pope, sort of accidentally, and was just a few feet from the Holy Father atop his white limousine. When I finally got into the church, dressed per usual in a nice black tee and knee length skirt, I was kindly asked to leave for my attire was inappropriate.  I happily ended up in the piazza after the crowd dispersed, drawing, as usual, the in-between spaces, the not so epic things that caught my eye. I drew the view through each of the columns in the monumental colonnades. As I sketched the view on the other side of the colonnade, the “outside”, an elderly woman befriended me and we sat together on a stone bench - made my day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI made the ink drawing as an architectural history graduate student on fellowship from University of Virginia in 2012. I used watercolor to enliven and re-interpret the drawing here, in December 2025 for an exhibit at Inner Space Designs, West Seattle Art Walk.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWatercolor Paper 140gsm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e16” x 16”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChoose Framed or Unframed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWelcome to my Travel Sketches Collection: lines drawn on site now illuminated by waterCOLOR. Together, the Sketches reveal my personal evolution in architectural travel sketching and offer a piece of travel art that can remind you of your own memories in place.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Turn-of-the-Centuries","offers":[{"title":"Framed","offer_id":50997203271995,"sku":null,"price":260.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Unframed","offer_id":50997203304763,"sku":null,"price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0837\/2332\/1659\/files\/SanPietro_Roma_3_TravelSketches_KirstenSparenborgBrinton_TurnoftheCenturies.jpg?v=1772058175","url":"https:\/\/turnofthecenturies.com\/products\/san-pietro-3-roma","provider":"Turn-of-the-Centuries","version":"1.0","type":"link"}