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Model of City Hall and More London area, Southwark
London, October 2009

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The Kiss

Le Baiser (The Kiss) by Auguste Rodin, 1890
(1934 cast of the marble original)
Terrasse de l'Orangerie, Tuileries Garden
Paris, July 2012

“The nudity and frank sensuality of The Kiss drew scorn from many critics when the sculpture was first unveiled in 1889. The poet Paul Claudel, a religious conservative, wrote:

the man is so to speak attablé [sitting down to dine] at the woman. He is sitting down in order to make the most of his opportunity. He uses both his hands, and she does her best, as the Americans say, to ‘deliver the goods.’

Claudel’s contempt probably had something to do with the fact that his sister, the sculptor Camille Claudel, was Rodin’s lover at the time the work was completed.”

(The Story Behind Rodin’s ‘The Kiss’, Open Culture)

Torquato Tasso

Monument to Torquato Tasso by Giuseppe Fabris, 1857
Church of Sant'Onofrio, Janiculum
Rome, April 2013

Feast of Sparrows

Feast of sparrows in and around a trash bin
Askanischer Platz, Kreuzberg
Berlin, September 2011

MetLife

MetLife Building and entrance of Grand Central Terminal
Seen from East 42th Street
New York, September 2007

Paparazzi

“Paparazzi” restaurant - pizzeria
Square de l'Opéra-Louis-Jouvet, 9e arrondissement
Paris, July 2012

Angelo Brunetti

Plaque honoring Angelo Brunetti, known as Ciceruacchio
Via di Ripetta at Via Angelo Brunetti
Rome, May 2011

“One of the first plaques was dedicated in 1871 to Angelo Brunetti, known as Ciceruacchio (meaning slightly fat in Roman dialect). He had a well known inn in Piazza del Popolo and in 1846 he took the lead in asking the newly elected pope (Pope Pius IX) for political reforms. He took part into the defence of the Roman Republic and when the city fell he tried to reach Venice, to which the Austrians had laid siege. He was arrested by them and he was executed with his two sons, one of whom was just thirteen.”

(Plaques in Historical Rome, A Rome Art Lover)