Drawings almost every day by Romney David Smith and Tarragon Smith. Occasionally paintings or etchings or silkscreens. Or whatever else catches our fancy.
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
Baptistery of Florence
A quick watercolour executed on my way home through the crepuscular streets of Florence.
Have you heard of Stendhal syndrome, that supposed illness that causes sufferers to grow faint at the sight of great beauty? It also goes by the name “Florence syndrome,” as it was first coined after 19th century visitors to Florence were overcome.
If you deconstruct Italy, you will in the end see a grapevine, a tomato and a small boy hammering a shard of marble. -PM-
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