Panetteria Ducale

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Panetteria Ducale (Ducal Bakery)
Via Guidoni
Massa, April 2022

Demon with Bowl

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“Demon with Bowl” by Damien Hirst, 2014
Olympian Way, Greenwich Peninsula
London, May 2023

“The large-scale bronze sculpture is part of Damien Hirst’s Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable series, first exhibited at the 2017 Venice Biennale. Standing at just over eighteen metres, this monumental figure is a copy of a smaller bronze recovered from the wreckage. The discovery of the body appeared to solve the mystery of a disembodied bronze head with saurian features excavated in the Tigris Valley in 1932. Characterised by monstrous gaping jaws and bulbous eyes, the head was initially identified as Pazuzu, the Babylonian ‘king of the wind demons’. The unearthing of this figure has since called this identification into question, due to the absence of Pazuzu’s customary attributes of wings, scorpion tail and snake-headed penis. Ancient Mesopotamian demons were complex primeval creatures that inhabited an intermediary realm between the human, animal and divine. Embodying a transgressive response to rigid social structures, these hybrid beings could be variously apotropaic, benign and malevolent. The supposition that the bowl held in the demon’s outstretched arm was a vessel used for collecting human blood conforms to the misapprehension that demons were universally destructive beings. This figure more likely served as a guardian to the home of an elite personage.” (Demon with Bowl, Greenwich Peninsula)

Piazza della Berlina

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Piazza della Berlina
Piazza Cairoli
Pisa, June 2022

Santiago del Arrabal

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Iglesia de Santiago del Arrabal (Church of Santiago del Arrabal)
Plaza de Santiago del Arrabal
Toledo, September 2022

“Santiago del Arrabal is a church in Toledo, Spain, built in 1245–48, at the orders of Sancho II, on the site of an earlier building, possibly a mosque. Many characteristics of Islamic architecture, such as the horseshoe arch, have remained in the present building which is built in the Mudéjar style. The church is dedicated to Saint James (‘Santiago’ in Spanish), ‘del Arrabal’ refers to its location on the outskirts of Toledo (Arrabal being a Spanish word of Arabic origin). The patrons of the church during its foundation were members of the Diosdado family, knight commanders of the Order of Santiago.” (Church of Santiago, Wikipedia)

Altar of the Immaculate

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Marble altarpiece di Giovanni Lanzoni and sons
Altar of the Immaculate Conception
Duomo di Massa (Massa Cathedral)
Via Dante Alighieri
Massa, April 2022

Bezier

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Bezier by DGA Architects, 2010
City Road, Shoreditch
London, May 2023

“DGA were appointed by Tudorvale Properties Ltd as executive architects responsible for the detail design and site operations of this 16-storey mixed use development at the heart of Tech-City, based on a planning consent obtained by TP Bennett. The scheme consists of 184 new build residential units in 16 and 14 storey residential towers placed over ground floor offices & restaurants, with a separate 9 storey block accessed from Leonard Street providing 45 affordable housing units. The aluminium cladding system is curved both vertically and horizontally which required complex 3D modelling and close design cooperation with cladding manufacturer Yuanda.” (Bezier, DGA Architects)

Giuseppe Mazzini

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Giuseppe Mazzini by Orazio Andreoni, 1883
Piazza Mazzini
Pisa, June 2022