giessedue: September 2021

Friday, September 24, 2021

New Renaissance

New Renaissance by Giuseppe Veneziano, 2021
Piazza Carducci
Pietrasanta, September 2021

Thursday, September 23, 2021

Blue Banana

Blue Banana by Giuseppe Veneziano
Piazza Duomo
Pietrasanta, September 2021

Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Porta del Paradiso

“Porta del Paradiso” (Gate of Paradise) by Fernando Botero, 1993
Chiesa della Misericordia (Sant'Antonio Abate / San Biagio) Via Mazzini
Pietrasanta, September 2021

Tuesday, September 21, 2021

Porta dell'Inferno

“Porta dell'Inferno” (Gate of Hell) by Fernando Botero, 1993
Chiesa della Misericordia (Sant'Antonio Abate / San Biagio) Via Mazzini
Pietrasanta, September 2021

Monday, September 20, 2021

Ragazza sull'altalena

“Ragazza sull'altalena” (Girl on a Swing) by Daphne Du Barry
Piazza dello Statuto
Pietrasanta, September 2021

Sunday, September 19, 2021

“Adoratrice del Sole” (Sun Worshipper) by Maria Gamundi, 2000
Piazza Matteotti
Pietrasanta, September 2021

“Maria Gamundi was born in 1952 in Caracas (Venezuela). She studied at thè Pratt Institute of NewYork and the Scuola del Libro of Urbino. She lives and works in Versilia, dividing her lime between Monteggiori and Pietrasanta. Since 1973 she has held important personal exhibitions in Italy, Europe, the United States and Latin America. Her female nudes exude a sculptural force exalted by her deep knowledge of the materials, as weìl as an instinctive joie de vivre which weìl represents her strong Latin American roots.” (Maria Gamundi)

Saturday, September 18, 2021

Municipio

Municipio (Town Hall)
Piazza Matteotti
Pietrasanta, September 2021

Friday, September 17, 2021

Il cavallino

“Il cavallino” (The Little Horse) by Ferruccio Vezzoni
Piazza dello Statuto
Pietrasanta, September 2021

Thursday, September 16, 2021

Dolce & Gabbana

Dolce & Gabbana by Giuseppe Veneziano
Via Garibaldi
Pietrasanta, September 2021

Wednesday, September 15, 2021

Zita of Bourbon-Parma

Zita of Bourbon-Parma by Daphné Du Barry
Via Garibaldi
Pietrasanta, September 2021

“Zita of Bourbon-Parma (Zita Maria delle Grazie Adelgonda Micaela Raffaela Gabriella Giuseppina Antonia Luisa Agnese; 9 May 1892 – 14 March 1989) was the wife of Charles, the last monarch of Austria-Hungary. As such, she was the last Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary, in addition to other titles. She has been declared Servant of God by Pope Benedict XVI. Born as the seventeenth child of the dispossessed Robert I, Duke of Parma, and his second wife, Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal, Zita married the then Archduke Charles of Austria in 1911. Charles became heir presumptive to the Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria in 1914 after the assassination of his uncle Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, and acceded to the throne in 1916 after the elderly emperor's death.” (Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Wikipedia)

Tuesday, September 14, 2021

Duomo di Pietrasanta

Collegiata di San Martino (Collegiate Church of San Martino)
Piazza Duomo
Pietrasanta, September 2021

“The church is on the Latin cross plan with a nave, two aisles and a transept. Much of the decoration dates from the reign of Christina, Grand Duchess of Tuscany, who in 1627 commissioned the restoration of the Collegiata to Florentine artists, who provided large devotional altarpieces and sculptures. Artists include painters Matteo Rosselli, Francesco Curradi, Jacopo Vignali, Pietro Dandini, Bastiano Bitozzi, Jacopo Chiavistelli, and Alessandro Cominotti, and the sculptors Giovan Battista Stagi, Stagio Stagi and Ferdinando Tacca.” (San Martino, Wikipedia)

Monday, September 13, 2021

Charlie Chaplin & the Kid

Charlie Chaplin & the Kid by Giuseppe Veneziano
Piazza Duomo
Pietrasanta, September 2021

Sunday, September 12, 2021

Collegiata di San Martino

Bell tower
Collegiata di San Martino (Collegiate Church of San Martino)
Piazza Duomo
Pietrasanta, September 2021

“The 36 m-tall bell tower has a simple brickwork appearance, but was originally also to be covered with marble plates. It was finished in the late 15th-early 16th centuries by the Florentine architect Donato Benti. In the interior is a curious helicoidal staircase.” (San Martino, Wikipedia)

Saturday, September 11, 2021

Skater Pope

Skater Pope by Giuseppe Veneziano, 2017
Piazza Duomo
Pietrasanta, September 2021

Friday, September 10, 2021

The murder of Grumpy

The murder of Grumpy by Giuseppe Veneziano, 2017
Piazza Duomo
Pietrasanta, September 2021

Thursday, September 9, 2021

Il Centauro

“Il Centauro” (The Centaur) by Igor Mitoraj
Piazza del Centauro
Pietrasanta, September 2021

Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Madonna del Sole

Madonna del Sole (Our Lady of the Sun), 1424
Collegiata di San Martino (Collegiate Church of San Martino)
Piazza Duomo
Pietrasanta, September 2021

“In the right transept chapel is the venerated relic of the Madonna del Sole (Madonna of the Sun), a painting from an anonymous Late Gothic artist, dated 1424.” (San Martino, Wikipedia)

Tuesday, September 7, 2021

Marble pulpit

arble pulpit by Donato Benti and Lorenzo Stagi, Collegiate Church of San Martino, Piazza Duomo, Pietrasanta

Marble pulpit by Donato Benti and Lorenzo Stagi, 1508
Collegiata di San Martino (Collegiate Church of San Martino)
Piazza Duomo
Pietrasanta, September 2021

“The marble pulpit is instead from 1508, by Donato Benti and Lorenzo Stagi, while the walls and the ceiling were painted by Luigi Ademollo in 1823-1825. The dome was originally octagonal (1453), but was rebuilt on circular plan in 1820.” (San Martino, Wikipedia)