Before the advent of monotheistic religions peoples of antiquity held that gods resided in places and that their voices holding eternal truths could be heard if you only listened - what the Romans referred to as Genius Loci. In Europe this belief persisted in country districts until...
I have been working on a new photo for the "Belle" series. The models were Monica and Samuel from Lugano, Switzerland who had seen a documentary about "Belle" on Swiss TV. They wished to do a picture together so I suggested the gruesome story of Diana and Actaeon. Why was Diana so...
Nicolas Poussin the Frenchman and I have one thing in common, like him I have spent most of my adult life in Italy and we arrived at about the same age. The Rome he found in 1625 was however very different from today's, with a population of little more than 100,000 - more of a town...
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