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Rome’s Fascist Era
Architecture in Rome thrived under fascism although there were some shocking demolitions involved in order to clear the way for Mussolini's new Roman Empire. Some projects were halted during the war years and only completed afterwards. Known as Italian Rationalism it...
Cristina Spartali Cahen in London
The tragic Marchioness Christina Spartali Cahen Cristina Cahen died, from an overdose of chloral, possibly accidentally, aged 37, in 1884. It was a fashionable drug in artistic circles, both her sister's husband Stillman and the painter Rossetti, were habitual users....
A Tale of Three Cities – Part 3: Hotel delle Belle Arti
On his three visits to Orvieto, Freud always stayed in the comfortable Hotel delle Belle Arti on Corso Cavour in the town center, midway between Piazza Vittorio Emmanuele (now Piazza Repubblica) and the central clock tower, La Torre del Moro. There is a plaque....
Radicofani and the Grand Tour – Part 2
The Roman Road The Val D'Orcia is one of the most famous valleys in the world even though the name itself may not mean much. Tourists have travelled the Roman road called the via Cassia since the 16th century on the Grand Tour, but before them it was trod by pilgrims...
A Tale of Four Cities – Part 2
Freud, Orvieto and Signorelli Freud, Orvieto, Signorelli: the Renaissance frescoes by Luca Signorelli had a profound effect upon Freud. In the entrance hall of Freud’s last home in London, on the right, is a picture of Tivoli, a reminder that Italy was his favourite...
A Tale of Four Cities – Part 1
Freud and a Tale of Three Cities: Vienna, London, Orvieto, and Pribor The Vienna home in Berggasse 19 is easy to spot - he lived and worked in two modest, dark flats on the mezzanine floor left and right of the long red Freud sign; 20 Maresfield Gardens, Hampstead,...
Castro the Renaissance Pompei.
An Off-the-beaten-track photography tour to the ruined city of Castro. Destroyed by the Pope in 1649, Castro was given the epithet The Carthage of the Maremma and today it could be defined as the Renaissance Pompeii. In April 2015 we went on a photo tour to the ruined...
Creepy Places to photograph in Tuscany: Castle Cahen, a Mock-Gothic Style Mansion of the Late Nineteenth Century in Italy.
Mock Gothic Horror: painted by Whistler, photographed by Cameron, the tragic story of Christine Spartali, Contessa Cahen. Near Orvieto on a ridge looking over a deep valley into Southern Tuscany stands a sinister looking castle in the mock-Gothic style of the late...
Castelluccio Norcia: Photo Workshop Through Some of the Most Spectacular Scenery in Italy.
A photo workshop day trip from Orvieto to the Sibilline Mountains in July. Castelluccio di Norcia is well known the world over amongst photographers for its picturesque vales of wild flowers at all times of the year - except when it is under snow which at 1500m is for...
Grand Tour: Radicofani on the Cassia.
Following the ancient Via Cassia, our photography workshop follows the Grand Tour route. The Val d'Orcia, famous and beloved site of modern photographers and artists in Tuscany, to the traveller of yore it was just a desolate region to be got through. For nigh on a...
Corpus Domini Festival.
A photography workshop in Italy could not be based in a more appealing place than Orvieto, in Umbria, but on the borders of both Tuscany and Latium. Orvieto is girded by city walls, fortresses, towers and gatehouses. You can walk the entire circumference below the...
Octagonal Church Ruin in Val di Lago, Bolsena
The ancient church occupies a site once sacred to the Etruscans. Lake Bolsena was the centre of their cult. The charm of the place lies in its desolate remoteness in the swamps near Lake Bolsena. Until the 1920s malaria was the scourge of the Italy. Often entire...
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