Showing posts with label Florence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Florence. Show all posts

Friday, March 15, 2024

San Gimignano (June 2014)

We were in San Gimignano in June 2014, almost ten years ago. It's northwest of Siena and southwest of Florence. Amongst the attractions is a torture museum: click on the link for pictures: I have never forgotten it.



This sketch of Clare on a rampart of the city walls gives a sense of the vacation: also the power of current AI systems to synthesise 'art' from a more mundane picture.

Saturday, July 12, 2014

Twenty seven years later

Views from the downstream and upstream bridges of the Ponte Vecchio, Florence. The early picture was taken, we think, in 1987; the later just a month ago. Twenty seven years.