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 architect...
Category: Italy
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...
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 im...