Museo di Storia Naturale

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Courtyard of the Sezione di Geologia e Paleontologia (Geology and Palaeontology Section)
Museo di Storia Naturale (Natural History Museum)
Via Giorgio la Pira
Florence, October 2013

Trattoria Sempione

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Sign of the “Trattoria Sempione” on Rio dei Bareteri
Seen from the Ponte dei Bareteri, San Marco
Venice, September 2013

Athena Arms the Warrior

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“Athena bewaffnet den Krieger” (Athena arms the warrior) by Karl Heinrich Möller, 1851
Schloßbrücke (Palace Bridge)
Berlin, September 2011

“Stone bridge built 1821-24 after a design of the architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel. The main elements of the bridge's decorations are the eight more-than-life-size sculpture groups on high marble pedestals over the stone bridge piers. The groups show scens from Greek mythology related to warfare. These Carrara marble statues were sculpted between 1847 and 1857 by various students of Christian Daniel Rauch. The red granite pedestals rest on pedestals, they are provided with circular medallions, work of the sculptor Friedrich Wilhelm Wolff, each motif is the image of an eagle with symbolic additions. The original medallions are lost and reconstructed in 1989.” (Statues on the Palace Bridge, Statues - Hither & Thither)

See also: The Wounded Warrior - Nike Instructs the Boy - Athena Leads the Young Warrior - Athena Protects the Young Hero

Frédérick Lemaître

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Bust of Frédérick Lemaître by Pierre Granet, 1898
Square Frédérick-Lemaître
Quartier de la Porte-Saint-Martin, 10th arrondissement
Paris, July 2012

“The actor Lemaitre (sculpted here by Pierre Granet in 1898) was also a regular of this neighbourhood, featuring mainly in hysterical crime plays on the Boulevards nearby. These two must surely have bumped into each other on numerous occasions.” (Grisettes et Lorettes, Invisible Paris)

Arco di Trionfo

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Arco di Trionfo (Arch of Triumph) by Jean-Nicolas Jadot, 1737
Piazza della Libertà
Florence, October 2013

Speedboat Landing

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Speedboat landing of the Hotel Excelsior
Lungomare Marconi, Lido di Venezia
Venice, September 2013

Aldersgate Flame

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John Wesley’s Conversion Place Memorial, “Aldersgate Flame”, 1981
Nettleton Court, Aldersgate Street
London, October 2009

Just outside the Museum of London, in what was once Aldersgate, is a bronze memorial, commemorating the converstion of John Wesley, on May 24th 1738. John Wesley's evangelical conversion took place in a now-demolished Moravian Church believed to have been on this site. On the plaque is inscribed the passage from Wesley's diary that day.

Wednesday May 24, 1738.

What occur’d on Wedn. 24, I think best to relate at large, after premising what might make it the better understood. Let him that cannot receive it, ask of the Father of Lights, that he would give more Light both to him and to me.
I think it was about five this Morning, that I opened my Testament on those words, “There are given unto us exceeding great and precious Promises, even that ye should be partakers in the divine Nature.” 2 Pet. i. 4. Just as I went out, I open’d it again on those Words, “Thou art not far from the Kingdom of God.” In the Afternoon I was asked to go to St. Paul’s. The Anthem was, “Out of the Deep have I call’d unto thee, O Lord: Lord, hear my Voice. O let thine Ears consider well the Voice of my Complaint. If thou, Lord, wilt be extreme to mark what is done amiss, O Lord, who may abide it? But there is Mercy with thee; therefore thou shalt be feared. O Israel, trust in the Lord: For with the Lord there is Mercy, and with him is plenteous Redemption. And he shall redeem Israel from all his Sins.”
In the Evening I went very unwillingly to a Society in Aldersgate Street, where one was reading Luther’s Preface to the Epistle to the Romans. About a Quarter before nine. While he was describing the Change which God works in the Heart thro’ faith in Christ, I felt my heart strangely warm’d. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for Salvation: And an Assurance was given me, That He had taken away my Sins, even mine, and saved me from the Law of Sin and Death.

- John Wesley

(John Wesley’s Conversion Place Memorial, Brethren Archive)