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  • Walkway along a narrow canal in Venice; alongside, a gondola waits, its gondolier in his striped scarf stands at the bow looking straight ahead.  Close feeling of urban Venice.
    Gondoliers-Venezia_ITA200403-5-23.jpg
  • Hanoi suburbs:  new house and apartment buildings follow traditional urban style of architecture, a tall and narrow 4-5 floor structure one or two rooms wide.  Uncollected trash in the street.
    Hanoi_suburb_apartments_VTN200602-31...jpg
  • 19th century warehouse in Old Town Alexandria now a Christmas boutique shop.  Three qwuarter view from across the street, showing old painted signs on the brick and shiny new Christmas Attic sign below.
    Rising seas, Old Town Alexandria, VA
  • A living boy looks with, perhaps, suspicion, at a "living statue" in Florence.  Other actual statues in nearby niches.
    Living statue ITA201012-228.tif
  • Bronze statue of Hodge, Dr. Samuel Johnson's cat, seated on his Dictionary (with an oyster) looks across Gough Square at Johnson's house.  Early evening lamps lit, rain-sodden cobblestones.  Statue, by Jon Buckley, 1997.
    Hodge the cat ENG200401-2-15.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
  • 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
  • View up a covered walkway along the edge of a town square in front of the cathedral;  Stairs, a closed bright green door, and light at the end of the tunnel.
    Sibenik_Croatia_HRV200606-020.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
  • Evening view of the London city skyline, anchored by the Swiss RE "gherkin" tower rising among the high rises.  A steeple of one of the Georgian City churches is also visible.  A composition of old and new.  Viewpoint from across the river Thames just west of London Bridge.  An anchor chain of HMS Belfast visible at right, a buoy at left, and a barge tied up on the opposite bank in front of an anonymous looking early 20th century neoclassical style government office building.
    London-City-skyline-ENG201101--0013.jpg
  • Three "black Hmong" men walking uphill on a street in the town of SaPa, North Vietnam.  They wear traditional indigo-dyed garb and carry baskets on their backs, seen from the back, their powerful legs indicate a life of climbing hills.  Three  others in more contemporary dress, carrying shopping bags, approach toward us.
    Black-H'mong-men-walking-Vietnamese_...jpg
  • Overview of the Roman forum from the overlook at the back of the Capitoline Museum, looking through an arched opening and over a protective barrier.
    Forum-Rome_ITA200901-4857.jpg
  • Trajan's Forum, looking along a re-erected colonnade toward Trajan's Markets and the Casa dei Cavalieri di Rodi (Knights of St. John, or Rhodes (Rodi).
    Trajans-forum-Rome_ITA200901--4837.jpg
  • Vatican. St. Peter's Basilica, detail of facade looking up to two column capitals, and cornice, with fragments of sculpture projecting above, including a disembodied arm and a papal crown.
    Vatican_Rome_ITA200901--1281.jpg
  • Cloister and Renaissance facade of Santa Clemente.  Woman tourist with camera.  Cobblestoned pavement, graceful arched 18th century facade using ancient columns for the colonnade.
    San-Clemente-Rome_ITA200901--1260.jpg
  • San Clemente, interior, looking out from the main doorway to the courtyard and street beyond
    San-Clemente-Rome_ITA200901--1255.jpg
  • Sign inscription plaque on brick wall Via Appia Antica
    Appia-Antica-Rome_ITA200901--1224.jpg
  • Aurelian wall from the top of the San Sebastiano gate, showing fields, trees, and the modern city in the distance along the horizon touched with sunlight.
    Aurelian-walls-sebastiano-Rome_ITA20...jpg
  • Rome, adjoining stairways of Santa Maria di  Ara Coeli and the Campidoglio hill seen from below, across the piazza by the Ara Coeli bus stop.
    Campidoglio-Rome_ITA200901--1183.jpg
  • Sta Costanza interior, ambulatory colonnade of the circular structure showing re-used ancient columns and Byzantine arrangement.
    Santa-Costanza-Rome_ITA200901--1087.jpg
  • Bramante's Tempietto seen through barred iron gate, Embassy of Spain, Spanish Academy, Rome.
    Bramante_tempietto_Rome_ITA200901--1...jpg
  • Trastevere street scene: sculpture on corner of a house, man drinking from a fountain; sculpture stuck on the wall above.
    Trastevere-streetscape-Rome_ITA20090...jpg
  • Bocca della verita, in the porch of Santa Maria de Cosmedin, Rome.  Young woman  smiling, her hand in the mouth of the figure.
    Bocca-verita-Rome_ITA200901--0968.jpg
  • Stairway up to the church of Santa Maria in Ara Coeli, on the Capitoline Hill, Rome.  It is a very long stairway.
    Ara-Coeli-stairway-Rome_ITA200901--0...jpg
  • Castel Sant'Angelo, shipping trunks and chests in an upper room of Pope Paul 3d; an interior of polished wood panels on walls and floor.
    Castel-Sant'Angelo-interior-Rome_ITA...jpg
  • Statue of an angel on the Ponte Sant'Angelo, Rome.  The figures, carrying the instruments of Christ's passion, were executed by Bernini's pupils (Antonio Raggi, Antonio Giorgetti and Ercole Ferrata) between 1660 and 1668 to Bernini's design.
    Statue_Baroque_angel_Rome_ITA200901-...jpg
  • Vatican seen from in front of St. Peters,part of its facade showing on the left.  Heavy rain clouds.  Vatican structure looks distant, mysterious, closed, in contrast to the prominent columns of the St. Peter's facade.
    Vatican_Rome_ITA200901--0819-2.jpg
  • Keats and Severn graves, Protestant Cemetery, on a gray and gloomy day.
    Keats-grave-Rome_ITA200901--0708-2.jpg
  • Yellow motorbike passing remains of an ancient Roman aquaduct, on the Viale delle Terme di Caracalla.
    Rome_cityscape_ITA200901--0705.jpg
  • SS Quattro Coronati, exterior, entrance, patched with cement and draped informally with electrical wiring.
    Quattro-Coronati-Sylvester-Rome_ITA2...jpg
  • SS Quattro Coronati, chapel of St Sylvester, frescoes depicting  the legend of Emperor Constantine's cure from leprosy by Pope St. Sylvester and other miraculous events during the early pontiff's reign. They were completed and consecrated in 1246. Interior view of the chapel, showing floor inlaid Cosmati work, altar, and part of the wall paintings.
    Quattro-Coronati-Sylvester-Rome_ITA2...jpg
  • San Clemente, ancient Roman street level underneath the later churches built over it.
    San-Clemente-Rome_ITA200901--0691-2.jpg
  • Roman Forum, Basilica of Constantine, seen beyond a grove of trees near the Arch of Titus, above which a pair of statues on top of Santa Francesca Romana's travertine façade (by Carlo Lambardi, 1615) seem to be floating on top of the tree branches.  Clear plain blue sky above.
    Constantine-basilica-Rome_ITA200901-...jpg
  • "Umbilicus Urbis Romae" inscription on a marble  plaque fragment attached to the side of the ancient speakers' platform near the arch of Septimus Severus, Roman Forum.  ...
    Forum-Rome_ITA200901--0517.jpg
  • Interior corridor of the hemicycle in Trajan's Markets, Rome.  Sunlight streams through arched openings on the right to fall on shop entrances on the left.
    Trajans-market-Rome_ITA200901--0486.jpg
  • Sequence of empty arched windows piercing walls of Trajan's Markets, Rome.  Closeup of one, beyond which two more in sequence can be seen.
    Trajans-market-Rome_ITA200901--0482.JPG
  • Colosseum; outer corridor with external pillars, heavily pockmarked.
    Colosseum_Rome_ITA200901--0343.jpg
  • Laocoon sculpture, Vatican museum; detail of a head of a boy looking frightened, as part of a snake coils over his upper arm..
    Boy_head_Vatican_Rome_ITA200901--029...jpg
  • Old Newari carved wooden residence still occupied; laundry and bedding hang in its colonnade..
    old-house-Kathmandu-NPL200110-1-35.jpg
  • Florence, Arno river, view of apartments and shops along the river bank, reflected in the water.
    Florence_apartments_riverside_ITA201...jpg
  • Still later, after the night lights had come on.
    Arno-Ponte-Vecchio-night-ITA201012-2...jpg
  • Since many museums in Florence enforce a "no foto" order, I often found more interest in peoples' interactions with sculptures in the street.  Here, a "living statue," swathed in white fabric, stands in a spot near the Piazza della Signoria where there are real, not living, statues beside and behind him.
    Florence-living-statue-ITA201012-227...jpg
  • Parents with a stroller, seen from behind, watch a "living statue" hunker down to speak with a little girl.  Onlookers in the foreground, viewpoint over their shoulders
    Florence-living-statue-ITA201012-225.jpg
  • From the Bardini Gardens, there is a view toward the most popular and touris-fraught viewpoints at the Piazzale Michelangelo, where another copy of his David statue can be discerned even from this distance.
    View_Piazzale_Michelangelo_Florence_...jpg
  • View down a medieval street in Trogir, Croatia.  Trogir is the best-preserved Romanesque-Gothic complex not only in the Adriatic, but in all of Central Europe. Trogir's medieval core, surrounded by walls, comprises a preserved castle and tower and a series of dwellings and palaces from the Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods. (Wikipedia) Though no people are present, there is nevertheless a sense that these ancient dwellings are still kept up and lived in.
    Trogir-streetscape--HRV200606-101.jpg
  • View up a steep stair, masonry walls and arched vault, toward a mysterious opening above.
    Sibenik_Croatia_HRV200606-031.jpg
  • There are many postcard views of Florence and the Duomo, so it's not easy to be different.  One of the standard viewpoints is from the Piazzale Michelangelo, a hub for tourists, buses, and souvenir sellers.  The Duomo, Campanile, Baptistry, and Palazzo Vecchio are all visible.
    Florence_cityscape_ITA201012-129.jpg
  • Prague, soft sculpture of a hooded man hanging from a roof.  Four pedestrians (young women) walk underneath it, ignoring it.  Traffic sign: right turn arrow.  Graffiti on the wall of the three-storey building from which the figure hangs.
    Prague-old-town-street-scene-CZR2009...jpg
  • Statue of an elephant wearing an Egyptian obelisk in the Piazza Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome.  Sculpture by Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598-1680).  The elephant, seen from the rear, faces a multi-story hotel Minerva.
    Elephant-behind-ITA200901--0395.jpg
  • Small corte in Venice, off Calle Stella, in Canareggio.  Doorways to apartments evidently well maintained.  A new shrine to the Virgin Mary on one of the walls.
    Canareggio-corte-shrine-Venezia_ITA2...jpg
  • Morning shoppers at Rialto market, Venice; Rialto Bridge in background.  One woman in the foreground carries a bag, casts a full length shadow toward us..
    Daily-life-Venezia_ITA200403-3-24.jpg
  • Vaporetto (water bus) makes its way up the Grand Canal, Venice, seen from the top of the Rialto Bridge.. Three launches tied up at the Palazzo dei Camerlenghi ( built ca. 1525 ) on the left
    Grand-Canal-Venezia_ITA200402-1-30.jpg
  • Garbage barge loading dumpster from an apartment building at canalside; onlookers on the bridge, workmen on the barge and sidewalk.
    Daily-life-Venezia_200402-4-1.jpg
  • San Clemente, interior, 12th century Paschal candlestick, twisted shaft with multicolored mosaic inlay, Cosmati work.  Looking up the candlestick from its base, showing part of the gilded and painted ceiling of the church.
    San-Clemente-Rome_ITA200901--1243.jpg
  • Museo Nazionale de Roma, Palazzo Massimo, mosaic panel, two pigeons, border of waves and rope
    Rome_ITA200901--1142-2.jpg
  • Museo Nazionale de Roma, Palazzo Massimo, flying horse or unicorn, detail of a wall painting from an ancient Roman house.
    Rome_ITA200901--1139.jpg
  • Museo Nazionale de Roma, Terme Diocletiani, trompe d'oiel painting of a monk with a little dog coming through a door in the cloister of the Carthusian monastery adjoining the baths of Diocletian.    This fresco is probably later, 17th century.  A guard rope is secured in front of it.
    trompe-doeil-painting-Rome_ITA200901...jpg
  • Santa Costanza, apse mosaic, 5th - 7th century; Christ seated on a globe handing keys to St. Peter. Heavily restored Early Christian mosaic.
    Santa-Costanza-Rome_ITA200901--1105-...jpg
  • Pantheon dome exterior top with seagulls flying around the oculus.  Grey sky with rain clouds above.
    Pantheon-dome-exterior-Rome_ITA20090...jpg
  • San Francesco a Ripa, Trastevere, statue of Beata Ludovica Albertoni in ecstasy, Gianlorenzo Bernini, 1674.
    Bernini_Ludovica_Albertoni_Rome_ITA2...jpg
  • Tempietto di Bramante, in courtyard of San Pietro di Montorio. 1502, on the site where St. Peter is supposed to have been crucified.  Round, Doric order, dome, seen through arched entrance.
    Bramante-tempietto-Rome_ITA200901--1...jpg
  • Rome, Fountain of the Turtles, Piazza Mattei, Rome ghetto; Fontana delle Tartarughe, the Tortoise Fountain. The fountain itself was designed by Giocomo della Porta at the end of the 16th century, but it was Bernini who added the tortoises in 1658.View of the entire fountain in its position in the piazza.  Boutique and house beyond.
    Piazza-Mattei-Rome_ITA200901--0954.jpg
  • View from the top of the Vittoriale across the roofs of the church, and facades of the Senatorio and Capitoline Museum.  Graphic composition of angles and parallels.
    Capitoline-roofs-Rome_ITA200901--087...jpg
  • View from the top of the Vittoriale (Monument to Vittorio Emanuele II).  Visible are the Pantheon and the Castel Sant'Angelo.
    Cityscape-Rome_Vittoriale_ITA200901-...jpg
  • SS Quattro Coronati, chapel of St Sylvester, frescoes depicting  the legend of Emperor Constantine's cure from leprosy by Pope St. Sylvester and other miraculous events during the early pontiff's reign. They were completed and consecrated in 1246.
    Quattro-Coronati-Sylvester-Rome_ITA2...jpg
  • Sta Prassede, mosaic details, Pope St Paschal I ca. 822.  Panel next to apse entrance showing a procession of saints bearing crowns, escorted by two angels .
    Santa-Prassede-mosaic-Rome_ITA200901...jpg
  • Santa Pudenziana, interior, apse mosaic detail, right side, late 4th century mosaic.
    Santa-Pudenziana-Rome_ITA200901--062...jpg
  • Interior of the dining room in the House of Augustus, on the Palatine Hill, Rome; opened to visitors in 2008 after years of careful restoration.
    Palatine-house-Augustus-interior-Rom...jpg
  • Roman Forum, looking along the main street (Via Sacra)  toward the Arch of Titus.
    Forum-Rome_ITA200901--0510.jpg
  • Cat resident in Trajan's Markets area patrols Trajan's Forum.  Many ancient Roman sites are also cat sanctuaries.
    Trajans-market-Rome_ITA200901--0489.JPG
  • Interior of a curving corridor along an upper floor in Trajan's Markets, showing arched windows and brickwork detail, with more windows seen through the nearest one.  Gentle daylight illuminates the floor and wall stumps.
    Trajans-market-Rome_ITA200901--0481.jpg
  • Trajan's Markets seen from its roof, looking down on the hemicycle and part of the pavement of Trajan's Forum.
    Trajans-market-Rome_ITA200901--0477.jpg
  • Pattern and texture of marble back of Dying Gaul statue
    marble-human-back-Rome_ITA200901--04...jpg
  • Male caryatid on the facade of a bank in Aix-en-Provence.  Bearded face, bare chested, wearing a wrap around his hips.
    Caryatid SC200208-26.jpg
  • There are many postcard views of Florence, the Duomo, and the Palazxzo Vecchio tower, so it's not easy to be different.  Here is one of the standard viewpoints from the terrace in front of San Miniato al Monte.
    Florence_cityscape_ITA201012-155.jpg
  • Fes;looking down on the medieval leather tanneries, still used; workmen.  Clusters of ancient vats, some brown, some white, in their clearing.  One workmen is walking along the edges of the vats, while another opposite him watches.  Beyond the vats rise a hill covered with apartment buildings, many topped with satellite dishes.  Cloudy sky but bright sun.  Photo taken looking toward sun, so there is a magical-looking diphragm silhouette in the center of the image.
    Fes_tanneries_MOR200411_0541.jpg
  • Four singers and players, one woman and three men, play on Renaissance replica instruments, wearing Renaissance era clothing.  They are seen from the back, in the shadow of a colonnade, while tourists in shorts watch and listen in the sunshine beyond.
    Dubrovnik-Croatia-HRV200606-372.jpg
  • Small corte in Venice, off Calle Stella, in Canareggio.  Doorways to apartments evidently well maintained.  A new shrine to the Virgin Mary on one of the walls.
    Shrine-Venice-corte-ITA200403-9-2.jpg
  • The Bardini Gardens are a vantage point for another view of the city.  A statue of a girl on a horse is placed at a strategic point to be sure you see it.  The sculptor is a contemporary, Giuseppe Gavazzi.
    Florence_cityscape_modern_sculpture_...jpg
  • Telephoto view of The City of London from the South Bank of the Thames river.
    London-City-skyline-telephoto-ENG201...jpg
  • Through the display window of the gallery of Monika Spruth and Philomene Magers, London, during a show of new photos by Cindy Sherman, whose figure is seen in over life size enlargement on the walls.  They are so placed in a black-and-white background landscape that the three standing figures, each in a different costume, seem to float. I have admired Sherman's work and went specifically to look at this show.  It was to me more like a performance than an exhibition of work one might want to own.  Nevertheless an interesting view at dusk.  The street behind is reflected faintly in the windows too.
    Stunning-strange-photography-exhibit...jpg
  • London, view of the Horse Guards Parade and Whitehall ministry buildings from the bridge over the lake in St. James Park.  The view is much more romantic, rural, and scenic than the usual views of Whitehall's government ministries and offices.
    Whitehall-from-St.James-Park-lake-EN...jpg
  • View from Piazza Venezia along Il Corso toward the Piazza del Popolo, seen from above, on the roof of the Vittorio Emmanuele monument .  City rooftops and the rolling landscape beyond to the blue horizon.  Late afternoon slanted sunlight and heavy shadow along the street.
    Il-Corso-ITA200901--0868.jpg
  • Corso on a Sunday; pedestrians; automobiles parked nose to tail along each sidewalk lining this narrow street.  Sharp linear perspective holds the composition firmly together. 18th century homes and apartment houses, residence of many visitors over the centuries, including Goethe.
    View-along-IlCorso-Rome-ITA200901--0...jpg
  • Formation of moored gondolas below Rialto bridge, Venice, Grand Canal; forest of wood mooring poles beyond the gondoli..
    Gondolas-Venezia_ITA200403-4-9.jpg
  • Goldolier in his red striped shirt and straw boater standing on a bridge talking into a mobile phone as a seagull soars overhead.  Houses and apartments along the canal recede colorfully into the distance.  A juxtaposition of the old and new, the ancient houses, traditional gondolier costume, and a contemporary mobile phone.
    Daily-life-Venezia_ITA200403-1-1.jpg
  • Rome, Capitoline Hill, looking up the ramped approach designed by Michelangelo, toward the Senatorio and its clock tower.  Statues of Castor and Pollux on their pedestals at the top.  Corners of the Capitoline Museums on either side.
    Capitoline-approach-Rome_ITA200901-4...jpg
  • St. Peter's Basilica: Michelangelo's Pieta behind protective glass, with barred window on the other side of the church reflected in the glass.  Multicolor marble sheets on the walls and on the base of the statue add warmth and atmosphere.
    Pieta_Vatican_Rome_ITA200901--1321.jpg
  • Navicella fountain in front of Santa Maria in Domnica; detail of the bow of the ancient marble gallley incorporated into the 16th century fountain.  A ferocious lion head is carved on the side
    navicella-Rome_ITA200901--1274.jpg
  • San Stefano Rotondo, interior under repair.  Built 5th century.  Part of colonnade with Ionic capitals; small crane parked in the center.
    San-Stefano-Rotondo-repair-Rome_ITA2...jpg
  • Aurelian Wall from outside San Sebastiano gate, with sun and shadow, bright blue sky and white clouds above.  One auto partly visible in the road.
    Aurelian-walls-sebastiano-Rome_ITA20...jpg
  • Rome, Aurelian walls from an embrasure at the top of the San Sebastiano gate, looking along the Appian Way as a bus turns to enter it.
    Aurelian-walls-sebastiano-Rome_ITA20...jpg
  • Santa Costanza, apse mosaic, 5th - 7th century; Christ in clouds handing scroll of the law to Peter and Paul. Heavily restored Early Christian mosaic.
    Santa-Costanza-Rome_ITA200901--1103.jpg
  • Sta Costanza, black and white mosaic detail in the curved ambulatory ceiling; 4th century.  Complicated design of grapevines interspersed with realistic figures doing the grape harvest, busts of other figures, and medallions with a variety of insets..
    Santa-Costanza-Rome_ITA200901--1091.jpg
  • Rome, view from the Gianicolo (Janiculum)  hill at dusk.  Golden sunlight across the city roofs, hills beyond.
    Rome_cityscape_Janiculum_ITA200901--...jpg
  • St Peter's Square in the rain, couple running under an umbrella, curved hemicycle of Bernini's colonnade beyond, grey clouds above.
    St-Peter-courtyard-Rome_ITA200901--0...jpg
  • Piazza Navona; Bernini's Fountain of the Four Rivers, detail of the lion lapping the water at the base of the fountain.
    Bernini-fountain-Navona-lion-Rome_IT...jpg
  • Shelley grave, Protestant Cemetery, next to a wall with barred window.  Vase of fresh white chrysanthemums next to it.  Inscription clear in the foreground: "Nothing of him that doth fade but doth suffer a sea-change into something rich and strange." [ Shakespeare, The Tempest  ]
    Shelley-grave-Rome_ITA200901--0710.jpg
  • Cloister, San Giovanni in Laterano; details of twisted columns with Cosmati mosaics
    Cloister-SanGiovanni-Lateran-Rome_IT...jpg
  • Rome, Imperial Forum, Arch of Titus seen from below and to the side of the Via Sacra.  Erected 81AD  by Domitian in honor of Titus' capture of Jerusalem.  Restored 1821.
    Forum-Rome_ITA200901--0529-2.jpg
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