Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/08/26

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Subject: [Leica] PSTCRD: Arezzo
From: afirkin at afirkin.com (afirkin at afirkin.com)
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 23:19:00 -0400
References: <7ED92E57-3549-4CBB-B33A-1E62D2ED34AC@sfr.fr>

> I've always been fascinated by a painting by Giotto called " San
> Francisco clears Arezzo of its devils" where perspective in non-
> existant in the background representing the city.
>
> http://aparences.net/wp-content/uploads/giotto_arezzo.jpg
>
> This to the point that I even painted the upper left corner extra
> large, finding it a real challenge NOT to include perspective while
> painting...
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Phileica/Flowers/autoportrait2_w.jpg.html
>
>
> So I was happy to return to the town, visited long ago, and check on
> the architecture, the devils if any left, and the people living there.
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/Phileica/Italie+2012/Arezzo-0234.jpg.html
> or
> http://tinyurl.com/9awgubt
>
> + the following 6 to the right
> some may be viewed large, as usual

Nice: makes me think more of Italy for October ;-)

Alastair



In reply to: Message from philippe.amard at sfr.fr (philippe.amard) ([Leica] PSTCRD: Arezzo)