Thursday, December 29, 2016

Basilica di Santa Ciara, Assisi



A view, drawn from life in my sketchbook, of the basilica of Saint Clare - the close companion of Saint Francis of Assisi. She is buried there, in the 19th century crypt.

But the building is 13th century, and is a nice enough example of the rather squat Italian Gothic style of the central Middle Ages. It's basically a huge stone barn, with what are surely the ostriches of the flying buttress world. They barely look as if they could get off the ground at all.

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  1. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
    MG

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