Category: Italy
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Fun fair
Fun fair Black foot playshide-and-seek?Hide yes – seek no. Merry-go-round?Not merryand no go round. Fun fair?No funand not fair. Photos of the week: Fun fair, Castiglioncello, Tuscany, Italy 2020
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Lady on the rocks
Lady on the rocks Did the rocks on the terrace roll in from the sea or was the terrace rolled out on the rocks? For our aesthetic sense it makes no difference. The sight is right. Photo of the week: Rock terrace, Castiglioncello, Tuscany, Italy 2020
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Pinus pinea
Pinus pinea I love these pine trees. I used to call them Mediterranean pines because that’s the region from where I know them. Their oblique stems show they may have suffered but nonetheless have managed to withstand the force of Aeolus. People seem to call them Stone pines because of their hard cones. But I…
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Before the fall and after
Before the fall and after I saw this little picture hanging on the wall of a house in Italy. It depicts the life of man before and after the fall. In the centre, the idyllic existence in the Garden of Eden is about to come to an end with Eve presenting to Adam the forbidden…
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Stigmata
Stigmata When the shopkeeper in the little town of Deruta, known since mediaeval times for its quality production of majolica earthenware, was dressing his shop-window he must have thought: let’s have something for everyone. Photos of the week: Ceramics shop, Deruta, Italy 2018
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Cute couple
Cute couple Two lovers in a compromising embrace. The woman is on the alert for being caught in the act. Even though it’s almost 2000 years ago, the scene is timeless, and funny at that. Photo of the week: Roman mosaic, Villa Romana del casale, Piazza Armerina, Sicily, Italy 2000
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David
David In last week’s post we could find a tiny plastic David at the Trevi Fountain in Rome. Here he is a full-size bronze copy of the original marble sculpture, overlooking Florence from the elevated Piazzale Michelangelo. For a stone replica we have to descend into town to the Piazza della Signora. And if we…
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Fontana di Trevi
Fontana di Trevi Except for Mary with her dead son on her lap, Venus, David, the Sabine woman … I think they all would rather like splashing about in the fountain under the watchful eye of Oceanus. I miss Anita Ekberg, she would have fit in nicely among them. Photo of the week: Souvenir stall,…
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Selinunte
Selinunte This photo tells a similar story as the one of last week, through its subject as well as its composition. Here we are in an ancient Greek city, not in western Turkey but on the south coast of Sicily, Italy. And the temple in the distance on the left is not of Ionic but…
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Resurrezione
Resurrezione Crocifissione, Deposizione, Resurrezione … that’s the order of events. He is rising up there, behind the clouds. Up to heaven, invisible, but radiating his light in all directions. Photo of the week: Gubbio, Italy 2018
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