Taken shortly after their arrival in Rome the fall 1952, Cy + Roman Steps (I — V) is a sequence of five photographs Rauschenberg made of Twombly descending the iconic marble steps of the Basilica di Santa Maria in Aracoeli. (sfmoma.org)
But at dawn, you can forget about cartoon princesses and instead you sense the ghosts of friars, of monks climbing as many marble steps as it takes to scale a cliff. (offassignment.com)