Ca’ de l’Oreggia

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Ca’ de l’Oreggia (House of the Ear)
Palazzo Sola-Busca
Via Serbelloni
Milano, May 2018

“In via Serbelloni 10 there is a Liberty-style building called Palazzo Sola-Busca, equipped with a little unusual intercom. The palace was renamed Ca’ de l’Oreggia (the House of the Ear, in Milanese dialect), because on the wall to the right of the main entrance door there is a bronze telephone, now clearly no longer working, just right shaped as an ear. It is the first intercom in Milan and one of the first in history. The work was made by the Milanese sculptor Adolfo Wildt in 1930, following the request for the construction of a particular intercom. Wildt thought well of seeing the function of that communication medium by giving it an ad hoc form: his ear. Immediately referable to the purpose, the allusive sense of that form was to ‘listen’ to the city.” (The House of the Ear, Milan City Tour)

Kamzík TV Tower

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Kamzík TV Tower, 1975
Kamzík Hill, Kolib
Bratislava, September 2017

Statue of Minerva

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Statue of Minerva by Alan Collins, 1966
Montague Close, Southwark
London, January 2008

Vittorio Emanuele II in Pisa

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Vittorio Emanuele II (Victor Emmanuel II of Italy) by Cesare Zocchi, 1892
Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II
Pisa, January 2013

Theseus Temple

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Theseus Temple by Pietro di Nobile, 1821
Volksgarten (People's Garden)
Vienna, September 2017

Aux Morts

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Aux Morts (To the Dead) by Paul-Albert Bartholomé, 1899
Cimetière du Père-Lachaise, (Père Lachaise Cemetery)
Quartier du Père-Lachaise, 20th arrondissement
Paris, July 2014

“Behind the Aux Morts (To the Dead) monument sculpted by Paul-Albert Bartholomé lies an ossuary of the bones of Parisians from cemeteries all over the city, a smaller kind of modern-day catacombs. Although the monument is well known, it is not general knowledge that it is also an ossuary, and its doors usually remain closed and locked to the public. When it became overcrowded recently, the bones were removed for cremation and returned to the ossuary after the incineration process. In the Père Lachaise ossuary, efforts are made to store bones and ashes in separate boxes.” (Père Lachaise Cemetery, Wikipedia)

Casa Rossi

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Casa Rossi
Corso Magenta
Milan, May 2018