Above is an artist’s portrait of Casa Verde. It has been painted by a Anne-Flore, a German artist who has lived in Vellano for many years. She has actually completed three paintings of the house but this one is the image that captures most the specific setting of the house, among the trees of the hill-side in it’s prominent position. The colours she has used reflect perfectly the predominant green shades that are memorable to any view of the house, and which give the house it’s name.
December 29, 2013
December 1, 2013
Pisa ‘Chartreuse’ Charterhouse
Pisa Charterhouse, also known as Calci Charterhouse is a former Carthusian monastery, or charterhouse, currently part of which is the home of the Natural History Museum, some 10 km outside of Pisa. I visited it this week and found a gem of a place full of beauty and a bygone atmosphere.
The Monastery is noted for the fresco of the Last Supper, by Bernardino Poccetti (1597), in the Refectory, which is interesting for its eye level view of the feet of Jesus and the Disciples just above the abbots dining chair. I am not sure I have seen the feet before in other depictions of the Last Supper.