Chapbooks are a traditional art-form: small hand- or desktop-printed booklets bound, in this case with saddle-stitch. I recently made 20 … More
Category: Italy
Palermo — art and grunge
An album of photos from a 2-day visit to Palermo, Sicily, in 2018. A fascinating, if unlovely, city with uniquely complex history and some outstanding architecture.
Bologna Rosso
A view from the Torre d’Asinelli For decades after World War II, while the increasingly corrupt Christian Democrats held national … More
Late Byzantine mosaics
In the hills behind Palermo, Sicily, is the community of Monreale — “Royal Mountain” — and the Cathedral of the … More
Hellenistic-Roman Mosaics
September 4, 476 C.E. is the conventional date — sanctioned by Edward Gibbon — for the end of the Roman … More
Early Byzantine Mosaics
The Second Coming when an eternally youthful Christ, seated on a watery globe from which pour the four rivers of … More
The Lamentation
The Lamentation of Christ in Death is a group of seven, mediæval terracotta sculptures.
OT: Assassination of Caesar
Not the kind of post I planned for this site. These photos are not intended to be part of my … More
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