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  • Italy, Magna Graecia : Paestum temples : temple to Hera II, Neptune, or Hera & Zeus (disputed attribution of dedication)
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  • Italy, Magna Graecia : Paestum temples : Temple of HeraII, Neptune, or Hera and Zeus.  Classic 5th century Doric style.
    ITA200610-089.jpg
  • Italy, Magna Graecia : Paestum temples : temple of Athena or Ceres; workman wielding a weed cutter along the temple steps
    ITA200610-075.jpg
  • Italy, Magna Graecia : Paestum temple seen from ruins of the city.  An oak (?) tree towers over the ancient structure, still standing.  A different interpretation of nature overcoming the works of man.
    Paestum_trees_ITA200610-083.tif
  • Italy, Magna Graecia : Paestum temples : temple to Hera II, Neptune, or Hera & Zeus (disputed attribution of dedication); Doric order and blue sky
    Paestum_Greek_temples_ITA200610-102.jpg
  • Italy, Magna Graecia : Paestum temples : partial view of two adjoining temples, side by side, so that all their columns seem to cluster together.  A group of tourists partly visible below one of the temple platforms.
    Paestum_Greek_temples_ITA200610-097.jpg
  • Italy, Magna Graecia : Paestum temples : temple to Hera, the earliest of the three temples at Paestum, seen from an angle that shows its siting in relation to the distant mountain.
    Paestum_Greek_temples_ITA200610-093.jpg
  • Italy, Magna Graecia : Paestum temples : Doric temple of Athena or Ceres showing its orientation toward the sacred mountain above the site.  The perfect parallelism of the flanking colonnade visually locks with the landscape beyond.  For more about this theory, see Vincent Scully's "The Earth, the temple, and the gods."
    Paestum_temple_landscape_ITA200610-0...jpg
  • Italy, Magna Graecia : Paestum temples : temple of Athena or Ceres; workman wielding a weed cutter along the temple steps
    Paestum_Greek_temples_ITA200610-075.jpg
  • Italy, Magna Graecia : Paestum temples
    ITA200610-083.jpg
  • Italy, Magna Graecia : Paestum temples : temple to Hera II, Neptune, or Hera & Zeus (disputed attribution of dedication). Detail of five columns from bottom to top with curved shadows of the next column capital showing near the top of each.  Parallelism and togetherness; repetition.
    Paestum_Greek_temples_ITA200610-099.jpg
  • Italy, Magna Graecia : Paestum temples : Temple of HeraII, Neptune, or Hera and Zeus.  Classic 5th century Doric style.  Part of its peristyle columns and entablature are visible through pine trees and shrubbery.  The temple points toward the mountain in the distance.
    Paestum_Greek_temples_ITA200610-090.jpg
  • Italy, Magna Graecia : Paestum temples : temple of Athena or Ceres from the city ruins and wall stumps.  An umbrella pine dominates the area.
    Paestum_Greek_temples_ITA200610-082.jpg
  • Italy, Magna Graecia : Paestum temples : temple of Athena or Ceres; workman in orange jumpsuit wields a motorized weed clipper in front of the temple.
    Paestum_Greek_temples_ITA200610-073.jpg
  • Italy, Magna Graecia : Paestum temples : temple to Hera II, Neptune, or Hera & Zeus (disputed attribution of dedication); detail of Doric column, capital, and entablature.
    Paestum_Greek_temples_ITA200610-101.jpg
  • Italy, Magna Graecia : Paestum temples : Temple of HeraII, Neptune, or Hera and Zeus.  Classic 5th century Doric style.  Comparison with the trunk of a nearby pine tree suggests the original source of the Doric column flutes.
    Paestum_Greek_temples_ITA200610-089.jpg
  • Italy, Magna Graecia : Paestum temples : view across the ancient city ruins toward the temple of Athena or Ceres.
    Paestum_Greek_temples_ITA200610-076.jpg
  • (Multiple values) Agrigento : valloe dei Templi.
    TR200610-021m.jpg
  • Cefalu, Cathedral in its setting, beneath cliff by the sea..
    ITA200610-163.jpg
  • Herculaneum : garden mosaic in one of the houses
    ITA200610-117.jpg
  • Sicily, Monreale Cathedral : cloister
    ITA200610-183w.jpg
  • Sicily : Theater at Segesta, 3d century BC. Shadow patterns on the seats and stairs.
    ITA200610-197pr10x15.jpg
  • Sicily, Syracuse, Greek theater, 5th century, view of the theater from the hill above showing how the entire auditorium fits into the slope of the hill.  Landscape and ocean sea in the distance, blue sy and white clouds above.
    ITA200610-044m.jpg
  • View of Agrigento across a field of olive trees carpeted with white flowers.
    ITA200610-020m.jpg
  • Rippling multicolored water of the Grand Canal in Venice reflecting palaces lining the edge.
    Palace dreams.jpg
  • Sicily : Temple at Segesta, 5th century BC. Colonnades, west side..
    ITA200610-203.jpg
  • Sicily : quarry behind the Elymian Greek temple at Segesta, 5th century BC.
    ITA200610-202.jpg
  • Sicily : Theater at Segesta, 3d century BC. Barbara Barletta lecturing to a tour group seated in the theater, carved from living rock of the hillside.
    ITA200610-193.jpg
  • Sicily, Monreale Cathedral : mosaics and column capitals.
    ITA200610-179.jpg
  • Pompeii  archaeologists at work in one of the houses under excavation.
    ITA200610-113.jpg
  • ITA200610-054_8bpr10x14on13x19.jpg
  • Taormina : Mount Etna from the Grand Hotel Timeo terrace
    ITA200610-065.jpg
  • Agrigento or Akragas: Temple of Concord with scaffolding and demonstration curtain on west facade restoration scaffolding meant to show the original appearance of the temple.  Restoration is funded by EC and has to be finished by the end of 2006.  Later photos do not show the curtain.
    ITA200610-028.jpg
  • Sicily : Theater at Segesta, 3d century BC. Barbara Barletta lecturing to a tour group seated in the theater, carved from living rock of the hillside.
    Tourists-Segesta-theater-ITA200610-1...jpg
  • Sicily : Theater at Segesta, 3d century BC. Shadow patterns on the seats and stairs, making an abstract semicircular design.
    Greek_theater_Segesta_ITA200610-197.jpg
  • Door and window of a wooden jail cell (one of many) under the roof of the Doges Palace, Venice.  Casanova was one of its occupants..
    Doges-palace-jail-cell-Venezia_20040...jpg
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  • Sicily : Cusa, quarries with unfinished Selinunte columns still in place.
    ITA200610-208.jpg
  • Sculptured head of painted wood in Palermo museum.
    ITA200610-006.jpg
  • Ancient Greek statue of a lion, possibly from Delos, stolen from Greece by Venetians in 17th century and installed at the 15th century gate of the Arsenale in Venice.  The lion wears a quizzical, shy facial expression.
    Guardian lion ITA200403-9-17.jpg
  • Herculaneum : wall structure with variety of patterned stones & bricks forming a pleasant abstract design.
    stone_wall_closeup_ITA200610-118.jpg
  • Segesta: View from behind the ancient Elymian temple itself into the quarry from which its building rocks were dug out.  It is a vast hole.  Beyond, farm fields, pine forest, and a high hill.
    Segesta-quarry-landscape-ITA200610-2...tif
  • Piazza San Marco from lagoon, Libreria Sansoviniana on left, Doges' Palace on right.  Crane and shoreline works to strengthen the lagoon edge of the piazza..
    Seen-from-vaporetto-Venezia_ITA20040...jpg
  • Ancient Greek statue of a lion, possibly from Delos, stolen from Greece by Venetians in 17th century and installed at the 15th century gate of the Arsenale in Venice..
    Ancient_Greek_lion_Venezia_ITA200403...jpg
  • Close up of two griffons in mosaic on the floor of the church SS Maria e Donato, on the island of Murano, Venice.   Church and the floor were built in the 12th century.
    Murano-grypon-pair-Donato-Venezia_IT...jpg
  • From the gondola gate of San Michele cemetery island, looking across lagoon toward Venice, Castello district..
    San-Michele-cemetery-Venezia_ITA2004...jpg
  • Below Rialto Bridge, Grand Canal, Venice, moored barges and a vaporetto approaching the Rialto vaporetto stop..
    Daily-life-Venezia_ITA200403-8.jpg
  • Detail of a girl hugging her horse, showing both heads and her arm.  Bronze by Giuseppe Gavazzi in the Boboli Gardens, Florence, Italy.
    Gavazzi sculpture ITA201012-175.jpg
  • Early morning in the Rialto Market, Venice, Italy.  Bright sun lights bright red awnings hanging down to shade the food.  Customers in the shadows of the adjoining market area.
    Rialto-market-morning-Venezia_ITA200...jpg
  • Two guards outside Roman Senate building, one Carabinieri wearing plumed hat, the other regular army, also in uniform and holding an upright staff.
    Italy-military-guard-Rome_ITA200901-...jpg
  • Early Renaissance architecture: the key figure is Filippo Brunelleschi.  His Ospedale degli Innocenti (Foundling Hospital, (1419–ca.1445), is the first major monument of his elegant classical style with its arches and colonnades.  This is the courtyard inside.
    ITA201012-088 BW.jpg
  • Internal stairway in the Palazzo Davanzati.  I like stairways.
    Mysterious-old-stairway-ITA201101--0...jpg
  • Courtyard of the Medici Palace, with transparent red gauze cloth banner hanging between two columns.  Tourist couple standing nearby looking around them.  The banner shows a collage of a photograph and a Ghirlandaio fresco with a quotation from Gabriele di Annunzio.
    Medici-Palace-courtyard-Florence-ITA...jpg
  • Everyone loves the Ponte Vecchio.  It was always crowded, so I preferred it from further away.  I had lots of opportunities from the next bridge over, the Ponte S. Trinita, restored after bombing in World War II.  The bus stop I used to get back to my B&B was nearby, so most of these images were made in the late afternoon or dusk.
    Florence_Ponte_Vecchio_ITA201012-094.jpg
  • Early Renaissance architecture: the key figure is Filippo Brunelleschi.  His Ospedale degli Innocenti (Foundling Hospital, (1419-ca.1445), is the first major monument of his elegant classical style with its arches and colonnades.  This is the courtyard inside, its serene colonnade arching over a potted orange tree.
    Brunelleschi-courtyard-colonnade-ITA...jpg
  • Exterior: trattoria Quatro Leone, Oltrarno, Firenze.  The door stands invitingly open.  The food is delicious.  It is frequented by neighborhood residents.
    Restaurant_Florence_ITA201012-261.jpg
  • This amusing fountain, probably 17th or even 18th century, stands on a corner in the Oltrarno near a bus stop I often used at the end of the day to get back to my b&b.  Its grotesque mask always made me smile.  Its mouth has a metal spout which indicates safe drinking water.  The six balls on the escutcheon above are a Medici heraldic statement, six being typical of the 16th century usage.
    Baroque_corner_drinking_fountain_ITA...jpg
  • A living boy looks with, perhaps, suspicion, at a "living statue" in Florence.  Other actual statues in nearby niches.
    Living statue ITA201012-228.tif
  • Marble statue of St. Luke, by Nanni di Banco, in the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence.  The work was on the original facade of the cathedral, which was redesigned and built.  The seated figure looks down on us with a supercilious sneer, holding a book on his knee with one hand.
    Saint Luke Renaissance statue ITA201...jpg
  • Ferragamo has the splendid medieval Palazzo Spini Feroni for the company museum.  A look through the window shows the painted plaster ceiling with an image of a male figure astride a flying eagle, surrounded by cherubs.
    Florence-Ferragamo-museum-ITA201101-...jpg
  • View toward Santa Croce, built 14th century.  The surrounding streets are lined with leather shops.
    Florence-streetscape-Santa-Croce-ITA...jpg
  • Sidewalk approach to the Galileo Museum, with astrological symbold embedded in the pavement.
    Galileo-museum-Florence-ITA201101--1...jpg
  • The Palazzo Alberti-Corsi is a late 15th century town house or palazzetto.  It was eventually bought by an English art historian Herbert Percy Horne, who restored the residence to what he determined was its original state.  He left it to the state after his death.  The interior is fascinating and each room has a determined young security person who enforces "no foto."  However in one small room where the leaded window glas appealed to me, I managed a quick shot with my pocket Canon G10.
    ITA201101--1991.jpg
  • Campanile (bell tower) of the Duomo, designed and begun by Giotto, 1334-37, when he died.  Four years later Andrea Pisano became Master of the Works and scrupulously followed Giotto's design until 1348, the year of the Black Death, when everything stopped.  Francesco Talenti finally finished it in 1359.
    Florence_campanile_ITA201101--0066.jpg
  • A few years after the Sassetti Chapel, Girlandaio decorated the Tornabuoni Chapel in the apse of Santa Maria Novella.  The subject is the life of John the Baptist, 1485-1490,  seen from the northern side of the nave.  Altar with wooden crucifix, decorated with pots of red poinsettias and candelabra as it is still the Christmas season.
    Florence-Santa-Maria-Novella_Tornabu...jpg
  • Close up of hand and drapery of Donatello's statue of Habbakuk ("Il Zuccone"), between 1423-35.  Made for the Campanile, now in the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence.
    Donatello-statue-Habbakuk-ITA201012-...jpg
  • Sassetti chapel in Santa Trinita with frescoes by Domenico Ghirlandaio of the Life of St. Francis, 1483-86.  Four or five well dressed ladies in the foreground, male escorts behind.
    Four-Renaissance-ladies-fresco-ITA20...jpg
  • Upper facade of the Palazzo Vecchio, originally designed by Arnolfo di Cambio, completed 1322.  Coats of arms painted 1353.
    Florence-palazzo-vecchio-detail-faca...jpg
  • Renaissance palace architecture exteriors are usually build of huge stone blocks heavily pilowed, with a bench below and a series of flambeau or torch holders along the wall.
    Renaissance-flambeau-in-situ-ITA2010...jpg
  • I decided that including a cypress tree would add a certain punctuation mark to the standard view of the Palazzo Veccio and the cathedral dome.
    Florence_cityscape_ITA201012-174.jpg
  • The crucifix painted in 1288 by Cimabue for the church of Santa Croce was severely damaged in the flood of 1966.  Preserved  but not restored, it is displayed in the Museo dell'Opera di Santa Croce.  Cimabue's style humanizes Byzantine severity, in the faces of Jesus, Mary, and St. John.
    Cimabue-crucifixion-ITA201012-119.jpg
  • Rainy streets can make nice reflections.  Perspective view down an alley at night in Florence, with a neon bar sign and a bicycle leaning against the wall opposite.
    Florence-streetscape-night-ITA201012...jpg
  • Courtyard wall of the Bargello studded with carved stone coats of arms of various Florentine families.
    Bargello-courtyard-ITA201012-101.jpg
  • Closeups of faces in the crowd in Ghirlandaio's Adoration of the Magi.  His style has stronger lines and more insistent detail than we have seen before.  Many are probably portraits of specific individuals.  As my friend Patsy said, "they're so gossipy!"
    Renaissance-men-portraits-Ghirlandai...jpg
  • Head of Nanni di Banco's marble statue of St. Luke in the Museu dol'Opera del Duomo.  His facial expression seems to show a very condescending squint.
    Condescending_expression_ITA201101--...jpg
  • A Florentine woman, with her young daughter (about six years old), fills a water bottle at a Baroque wall fountain in the Oltrarno.  Both wear padded jackets.  The fountain, on a street corner, has above it a grotesque mask.  The fountain is shaped in swoops and scrolls, echoed in her curved arm reaching out, and curving fur hood of her jacket.
    Woman_child_fountain_ITA201101--0034.jpg
  • Uffizi Gallery from across the Arno River at sunset.  The crowd is like a row of dots along the river bank.  The intense yellow color of the setting sun on the gallery wall is reflected in the water of the river below.
    Uffizzi_gallery_sunset_reflection_IT...jpg
  • I like to collect pictures of wall signs and graffiti that have some relevance to their location.  Or some mystery.  Here the message on a scruffy old wall is: "Terrorista e lo stato" painted in black, apparently through a template.
    State_terrorism_ITA201012-096.jpg
  • I could not decide between a horizontal and vertical picture, so I did both.
    Brunelleschi_colonnade_detail_ITA201...jpg
  • Telephoto detail of a band of archangels, cherubim, and serphim in the mosaics of the Florence Baptistry of St. John.
    Baptistry_mosaic_dome_archangels_ITA...jpg
  • The Baptistry dome interior has spectacular mosaics, still very Byzantine in style, made during the 13th century.  I have not seen any attribution to any one artist, though it is said that the painter Coppo di Marcovaldo made some of the cartoons.
    Baptistry_mosaic_dome_ITA201012--000...jpg
  • Closeup of Donatello's late sculpture in wood of the penitent Magdalen.  Her mournful face, tangled hair, ragged robe, and wrinkled hands are shown.
    Donatello Magdalen ITA201012--0029.jpg
  • Christ Pantocrator between the Virgin and St. Minias, with Evangelist symbols.  Dated 1260 or 1297, by an unknown artist.  In the apse of the church of San Miniato al Monte, Florence.
    Pantocrator mosaic San Miniato ITA20...jpg
  • Front panel of Donatello's cantoria, manipulated in Photoshop to correct perspective so that the figures can be examined more closely.  The exuberant figures, probably at least designed if not wholly worked by Donatello himself (my opinion), are tucked behind a row of columns studded with mosaic.  The repetitive ornament above and below was undoubtedly finished by his workshop.
    Donatello-Cantoria-adjusted-ITA20110...jpg
  • Interior of the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, showing marker of the maximum height of the 1966 Arno flood.
    Firenze-Museo-marker-ITA201101--2015.jpg
  • Exterior, trattoria al Tranval, Oltrarno, Firenze.  A true neighborhood trattoria, without tourists.
    Florence-trattoria-exterior-ITA20110...jpg
  • Interior, trattoria al Tranval.  Tables for two set along a bench; menu board posted over window; wine bottles in a rack above the bench.
    Florence-trattoria-interior-ITA20110...jpg
  • Close up, in compressed telephoto shot, of a campanile detail adjoining the cathedra.  The hexagonal reliefs at the lower right are copies.  The originals are in the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo.
    Florence_campanile_duomo_ITA201101--...jpg
  • The duomo interior is large and quite bare.  Again the pietra serena with white walls combination is used.  The floor of polished multicolored marble echoes the exterior color combination of red, green, grey, and white.
    Florence_Duomo_nave-ITA201101--0059.jpg
  • Overall view of Ghiberti's "Gates of Heaven" on the Baptistry, with  marble sculpture of Jesus being baptized by St. John, made in 1505  by Andrea Sansovino (c1467-1529).  The angel looking on is a later 18th century work by a lesser sculptor, Innocenzo Spinazzi.  The gold doors in place are replicas of the originals which are kept in the museum.
    Florence_Baptistry_door_replica_ITA2...jpg
  • Looking up into the interior of Brunelleschi's dome, covered in the 16th century with frescoes by Giorgio Vasari, the hyperactive painter, writer, architect, and historian.
    Florence_cathedral_interior_dome_ITA...jpg
  • A pair of street artists working on a copy of a Raphael Madonna and child in the Pitti Palace.  Onlookers gather around.  Scallop-shaped dishes for offerings of money.  It is dusk so shop windows are lit.
    Florence-street-artists-copying-Raph...jpg
  • Florence, Arno river, view of apartments and shops along the river bank, reflected in the water.
    Florence_apartments_riverside_ITA201...jpg
  • Green cloister of Sta Maria Novella, considered an extraordinary example of Italian Gothic architecture, begun around 1340 by Fra' Sisto and Fra' Ristoro. I like cloisters because they slow life down to make contemplation easier. Under the arcade is a series of frescoes by Paolo Uccello showing the Creation and the story of Noah, dated 1424.
    Santa-Maria-Novella-cloister-ITA2010...jpg
  • Green cloister of Sta Maria Novella, considered an extraordinary example of Italian Gothic architecture, begun around 1340 by Fra' Sisto and Fra' Ristoro.  I like cloisters because they slow life down to make contemplation easier.  Under the arcade is a series of frescoes by Paolo Uccello showing the Creation and the story of Noah, dated 1424.  Details in the next images of this gallery.
    Florence-Santa-Maria-Novella-cloiste...jpg
  • Facade of Santa Maria Novella, designed by Leon Battista Alberti, 1456-70 on a commission by a local textile magnate, Giovanni di Paolo Rucellai.  The church itself, a Dominican foundation, was built 100 years previously.
    Florence-Santa-Maria-Novella-facade-...jpg
  • In Florence, Santa Claus typically climbs up to the balcony.
    Florence-Santa-balcony-ITA201012--00...jpg
  • Hexagonal lozenge from the Campanile: woman at a loom, with another woman standing next to it looking on, denoting the Art of Wool-Making.  Attributed to Andrea Pisano.  Classical air of the drapery shows that the Renaissance has begun.
    Medieval-woman-weaving-ITA201012--00...jpg
  • Closeup of Donatello's late sculpture in wood of the penitent Magdalen, about 1453-55.  Head, shoulders, and hands praying.
    Donatello-sculpture-Magdalen-ITA2010...jpg
  • Brancacci Chapel: St. Peter healing the crippled man.  The two foppish men on the right are by Masolino.  They are very commonly replicated.
    Scene-StPeter-beggar-Brancacci-ITA20...jpg
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