“Sicilian Wedding” photographed by Signe Vilstrup for Vanity Fair Italy, July 2011. this entire editorial is amazing.
gondola traffic at the Bridge of Sighs {Venice, 08.05.04}.
St. Mark’s Basilica as seen from the Doge’s Palace {Venice, 08.05.04}.
arcade of the Doge’s Palace {Venice, 08.05.04}.
J.M.W. Turner’s “Modern Rome—Campo Vaccino” set a world record Wednesday night in London when it was sold to the J. Paul Getty Museum for £29.72 million ($45 million). according to the New York Times:
The panoramic view was done by the English painter from memory, without paying much attention to the many precise sketches that he had done in the course of his various trips to Rome. It is an impressionistic evocation of the city bathed in a golden sunset haze touched with salmon pink, and some liberties are taken with topography.
entrance of the Doge’s Palace {Venice, 08.05.04}.
sculptures by Giacomo Serpotta surround a photograph of a stolen Caravaggio in the San Lorenzo oratory in Palermo, Sicily. photographed by Domingo Milella for the New York Times magazine.
