Bus and cyclist
Baker Street at Marylebone Road
London, September 2015
Sunday, July 31, 2016
Saturday, July 30, 2016
Friday, July 29, 2016
Newlyweds on Quai Branly
Newlyweds on quai Branly
Quartier du Gros-Caillou, 7th arrondissement
Paris, July 2010
Thursday, July 28, 2016
Bettino Ricasoli
Bettino Ricasoli by Augusto Rivalta, 1897
Piazza dell'Indipendenza
Florence, May 2016
Wednesday, July 27, 2016
Bar Blue
Bar Blue wine bar, Vinopolis
Bank End, Southwark
London, September 2015
“Bar Blue is a trendy, contemporary, blue wine bar, the first style bar of its kind in the London Bridge area. Tucked neatly into the dramatic archways at Vinopolis, it is the perfect complement to Cantina Vinopolis restaurant.” (View)
Tuesday, July 26, 2016
Monday, July 25, 2016
Hinterm Horizont
Blue Man Group and Hinterm Horizont (Beyond the Horizon)
Advertising on pedicabs
Panoramastraße
Berlin, September 2011
Sunday, July 24, 2016
Wooden Crucifix
15th-century wooden crucifix
High altar, Basilica of San Petronio
Piazza Maggiore
Bologna, June 2015
Saturday, July 23, 2016
Young Turenne
Turenne enfant (Young Turenne) by Benoît Lucien Hercule
(Henri de la Tour d'Auvergne, Vicomte de Turenne)
Rue de Turenne / rue Debelleyme
Quartier des Enfants-Rouges, 3rd arrondissement
Paris, July 2012
Friday, July 22, 2016
Biosfera
Biosfera (Biosphere) by Renzo Piano, 2001
Acquario di Genova (Aquarium of Genoa)
Ponte Spinola, Porto Antico
Genoa, April 2016
Thursday, July 21, 2016
Wednesday, July 20, 2016
The Italic Venus
“La Venere italica” (The Italic Venus) by Antonio Canova, 1812
Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti
Florence, May 2016
Tuesday, July 19, 2016
Filming by the Seine
Shooting a video by the Seine
Port de Suffren
Quarter due Gros-Caillou, 7e arrondissement
Paris, July 2014
Monday, July 18, 2016
Via dei Baullari
18th Century mosaic of the Madonna
Campo de' Fiori / Via dei Baullari
Rome, April 2013
Sunday, July 17, 2016
Saturday, July 16, 2016
Pierluigi Penzo
Bust of the Venetian aviator Pierluigi Penzo (1896-1928)
Riva dei Partigiani, Castello
Venice, September 2012
Friday, July 15, 2016
Thursday, July 14, 2016
Wednesday, July 13, 2016
Maternity
“Maternité” (Maternity) by Georges Vacossin, 1931
Rue Lafayette / rue du Château-Landon
Quartier Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, 10th arrondissement
Paris, July 2012
Tuesday, July 12, 2016
Piazzetta Mauro Rostagno
Plaque and wall decoration
Piazzetta Mauro Rostagno
“Symbol of the fight against the Mafia”
Genoa, April 2016
Monday, July 11, 2016
Frank Zappa
Monument to Frank Zappa by Konstantinas Bogdanas, 1996
Kalinausko gatvę, Užupis
Vilnius, September 1997
“Saulius Paukstys, a civil servant and member of the Vilnius bohemian set, saw the opportunity to fulfil a lifelong ambition. He founded the Frank Zappa Fan Club and commissioned a socialist realist sculptor to create a statue of Zappa on a patch of land in front of a children's hospital in the centre of the city.” (They tore down Lenin's statue - and raised one to Frank Zappa, The Guardian)
Sunday, July 10, 2016
Wow
“Wow. The Windmill for energy” by Simone D'Auria
Gallery Hotel Art, Vicolo dell’Oro
Florence, May 2016
“The project is completed, in the Vicolo Dell’Oro square, with two huge pots and sprouting windmills, as well as a three dimensional WOW in red stimulating the exclamation of happiness and wonder that seizes the spectator in front of the artwork, at the same time, strengthening the awareness toward a theme so important and decisive for the future of the planet.” (Wow. The Windmill for energy, Gallery Hotel Art)
See also: Spoon, I Eat Earth - Personal/Unpersonal - Mirror - Cycling Up
Saturday, July 9, 2016
Queen's Guard
Sentry of The Grenadier Guards
Buckingham Palace
London, September 2015
“The Grenadier Guards (GREN GDS) is an infantry regiment of the British Army. It is the most senior regiment of the Guards Division and, as such, is the most senior regiment of infantry. It is not, however, the most senior regiment of the Army, this position being attributed to The Life Guards. Although The Coldstream Guards were formed before The Grenadier Guards, the regiment is ranked after the Grenadiers in seniority as, having been a regiment of the New Model Army, the Coldstream served the Crown for four fewer years than the Grenadiers (the Grenadiers having formed as a Royalist regiment in exile in 1656 and the Coldstream having sworn allegiance to the Crown upon the Restoration in 1660).” (Grenadier Guards, Wikipedia)
Friday, July 8, 2016
Mural on a Shutter
Rolling shutter painted with a mural
Porticoes of Via Galliera
Bologna, June 2015
Thursday, July 7, 2016
Tourists and Police
Tourists and police officers
Place Vendôme
Quartier de la Place-Vendôme, 1st arrondissement
Paris, July 2009
Wednesday, July 6, 2016
Umberto I
Monumento to Umberto I of Italy by Davide Calandra and Edoardo Rubino, 1926
Viale della Pineta, Villa Borghese gardens
Rome, April 2013
Tuesday, July 5, 2016
Vytautas the Great
Vytautas the Great Monument by Vincas Grybas, 1932
(Copy of the original destroyed in 1951)
Laisvės Alėja (Liberty Boulevard)
Kaunas, Lithuania, September 1997
“Born in 1350 in the castle of present-day Old Trakai (Senieji Trakai), Vytautas was the son of Kęstutis and his wife Birutė. Vytautas was a cousin and childhood friend of Jogaila (Władysław II Jagiełło), who became King of Poland in 1386. Around 1370, he married Anna, who gave birth to Sophia of Lithuania. Sophia was married to Vasily I, Grand Prince of Moscow, and mother and regent to their son Vasili II. After Anna's death in 1418, Vytautas married her niece Juliana Olshanska, daughter of Ivan Olshanski who outlived him.[6] Because of the relationship between the two women, the Bishop of Vilnius was unwilling to perform the ceremony without a papal dispensation; however, Jan Kropidło did not have such scruples and married them on 13 November 1418.” (Vytautas, Wikipeda)
Monday, July 4, 2016
Casa Mazzini
The birth house of Giuseppe Mazzini (1805-1872)
Palazzo Adorno
Via Lomellini
Genoa, April 2016
Sunday, July 3, 2016
Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
Court 1 in the Supreme Court building
Supreme Court of the United Kingdom
Middlesex Guildhall
Parliament Square
London, September 2015
“The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom is the supreme court in all matters under English and Welsh law, Northern Ireland law and Scottish civil law. It is the court of last resort and the highest appellate court in the United Kingdom, although the High Court of Justiciary remains the court of last resort for criminal law in Scotland. The Supreme Court also has jurisdiction to resolve disputes relating to devolution in the United Kingdom and concerning the legal powers of the three devolved governments (in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) or laws made by the devolved legislatures.” (Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, Wikipedia)
Saturday, July 2, 2016
Putto with Dolphin
Copy of “Putto con delfino” (Putto with Dolphin) by Andrea del Verrocchio, 1479
Palazzo Vecchio
Piazza della Signoria
Florence, May 2016
“The ‘Putto with Dolphin’ (c. 1479; formerly in the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, but now replaced by a copy) is at once an exquisite fountain decoration, an antique motif restated in Renaissance terms, and the clearest statement of Verrocchio’s interest in suggested movement. The child in the piece is turning; the movement is reinforced by the fish, and the suggestion of motion culminates in the actual movement of the water spouting from the dolphin’s mouth. Verrocchio also reveals his indebtedness to Desiderio in his refined treatment of the surfaces.” (The Renaissance, Encyclopædia Britannica)
Friday, July 1, 2016
Mythical Poem
“Poeme mythique” (Mythical Poem) by Jorge Jiménez Deredia, 1992
Square de l'Amérique-Latine
Place de la Porte-de-Champerret
Quartier des Ternes, 17th arrondissement
Paris, July 2012