If you stand on the balcony that overlooks the main entrance inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art and look up, this is what you’ll see:
Arches within arches within arches. Do you see the smallest one at the bottom center of the photo? Artistè Florenza pointed this out to me and I thought it was simply beautiful. I don’t know. Maybe you need to see it in person…
Exile on Pain Street 
beautiful *sigh*
From your picture, it looks like an Escher painting come to life. Very cool.
Jeff: That’s a very astute observation!
Giovani Battista Piranesi has come to life!http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Piranesi01.jpgAbsolutely brilliant shot.
I was just there a few weeks ago and stood thinking the same thing. Great shot.