One of the best places to find examples of this type of funereal sculpture is in the Basilica Saint-Denis. As you walk through the Basilica Saint-Denis you will come across many gisants – the sculptures on top of the tombs, that represent the entombed person either dying or in death. Always shown in a recumbent [...]
Palazzo Barberini
Today’s guest post is an excerpt from 100 Places in Italy Every Woman Should Go, by Susan Van Allen
Photo of the Day: Sgraffito of Schwarzenberg Palace
Sgraffito is the art of incising, or scratching, a design into multicolored layers of plaster. From a distance, the black and white walls of the Schwarzenberg Palace appear to be made of stone carved into a repetitive protruding pyramid shaped design, but this turns out to be an illusion created by the sgraffito. The Schwarzenberg [...]
