Category : Belle Outdoor

Carpe Diem

Carpe Diem

  A remarkable feature of Italy is the amount of  history simply abandoned to nature. A walk in the woods can lead to a ruined church with peeling frescoes, even entire towns abandoned and overgrown or as here a Renaissance sculpture park outside Pitigliano constructed by the once powerful...

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Spirals

Spirals

  Though the name is  This Autumn Evening,  how I got there is something of a spiral.   I was intrigued by the idea of a spiral suggested by the form of the belvedere. This is the original shot. In fact the working title was Vortex. This took me to Wyndham Lewis and...

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Herm

Herm

  In the ancient world, given that fertility was of fundamental importance, sex and religion were entwined. Bacchanalian rites were famous for their eroticism. A Roman home would often have the figure of Priapus holding his oversized phallus prominently displayed by the entrance and the...

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Hamadryads

Hamadryads

  Hamadryads are nymphs associated with trees, each one having its own Hamadryad. They are not immortal, they share their destiny with the tree: when the tree dies, so does the nymph. I have a particular love for the Maritime Pine with its unmistakable  umbrella canopy. They are native...

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Venus of the Sherds

Venus of the Sherds

One of the greatest paintings of the Renaissance, Sleeping Venus is an unusual, not to say mysterious work, even for an out of the ordinary painter like Giorgione. The work was unfinished on his death at 34 of plague to be completed by Titian who then went on to paint similar Venuses of his own....

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