María Lagares
Fashion Industry Management. A Coruña.

Museums

Rooms built to be looked at, and what the light does once it is inside them. Photographed in Rome.

A shaft of daylight crosses a domed hall of Roman statues; a porphyry torso stands in shadow at the front.
Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican Museums, Rome.
Bernini's Pluto and Persephone lit from behind, the frescoed room dark around them.
Bernini, The Rape of Proserpina. Galleria Borghese, Rome.
A narrow slit of daylight running down a panel of veined grey marble.
Marble revetment, Vatican Museums, Rome.
Sunlight entering a marble arch beneath an inscription to Pope Pius VI.
Vestibule, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican Museums, Rome.
Bernini's Apollo and Daphne seen from below, laurel breaking from her raised hand.
Bernini, Apollo and Daphne. Galleria Borghese, Rome.
The open oculus of the Pantheon seen straight up, the coffered dome around it.
Oculus, Pantheon, Rome.
The upper drum of the Pantheon, windows and blind niches running round it.
Upper drum, Pantheon, Rome.