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.
Granada
The Alhambra of Granada with Charles V’s palace from the Mirador de San Nicholas The cover of the eBook shows a familiar view of the Alhambra (“The Red One...
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...
Toledo
The Organ at the back of the Choir of the Cathedral of St Mary of Toledo The city, lodged in a bend of high cliffs over the river Tagus, has been a fortress s...
Cordoba
The colonnaded (‘hipostyle’) hall of the mosque with its doubled Moorish arches and columns of jasper, onyx, marble, granite and porphyry taken from ol...
Madrid
A street leading off the Plaza Major A few images from a week in Madrid in September 2017. Please download this small PDF book to see the images full&n...