Bologna Rosso
A view from the Torre d’Asinelli For decades after World War II, while the increasingly corrupt Christian Democrats held national office in Italy, the Bo...
Category: Italy
Late Byzantine mosaics
In the hills behind Palermo, Sicily, is the community of Monreale — “Royal Mountain” — and the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Virgin, built by a ...
Hellenistic-Roman Mosaics
September 4, 476 C.E. is the conventional date — sanctioned by Edward Gibbon — for the end of the Roman Empire. On that day, the military leader of the...
Early Byzantine Mosaics
The Second Coming when an eternally youthful Christ, seated on a watery globe from which pour the four rivers of Eden, hands the Martyrs Crown to Saint V...
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 portfolio. Still, it is a subject that I find worth an image. ...