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| Iaia took a trip with us to Calabria. She was not happy at all. |
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| Michele Colace and my son Luca sharing a Game boy. Luca was 10 at the time. |
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| A farmer watering his plantation with a watering can?!? |
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| The sea seen from S. Costantino. |
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| Sara Colace when she was eleven. |
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| The three towers at late night. I actually did this drawing without watching them. |
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| Outside our hotel there were these three towers. At night they were beautifully illuminated and i did another drawing of them. |
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| Park Guell by Antonio Gaudì. It was extremely cold (last days of december) and impossible to hang out. Above all my ball pen freezed and stopped working! I hope I'll come back again in summertime. |
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| Iaia is our 10 year old female cat. Here she was still a puppy. |
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| Cats can sleep up to 26 hours a day... |
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| Trip to Carassai, Marche (Italy). In this Italian region we had the chance to go seeing the work of Lorenzo Lotto (XV century mannerist) which is spread among various cities. |
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| Cactacea in Zambrone, Calabria. |
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Giò the dog. He's not among us anymore... |
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| Manuela sitting at a piazza in Tropea, Calabria |
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| Sun leg-bathing... |
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| Sunflowers arrangement. The seeds are good to eat. |
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| Calabrian flora. At the right the "fico d'India" |
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| An old rural house owned by the Colace family. Today this estate is entirely restored. |
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| Castel Gandolfo lake, near Rome |
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| Luca playing by the lakeside. Castel Gandolfo lake, near Rome |
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| Luca when he was 3 years old. |
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| Ulisses wearing a cap - Sperlonga, Archeological Museum. I had already done another drawing of it two years earlier, at an exhibition in Rome. But the Sperlonga museum setting is quite beautiful. |
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| Sperlonga village seen from Tiberio's Cave. |
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| An Ulisses' camerade fights against the terrible one-eyed Polifemo. Sperlonga, Archeological Museum. |
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| Agata the cat. |
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| Emma the cat. |
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| Tina the cat. |
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| Cattle at Priscopio, Calabria. |
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| Toola of the trade. Zambrone, Calabria. |
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| Tropea centre and port seens from Priscopio, a fraction of Zambrone, Calabria. |
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| piazza S. Silvestro, Rome. |
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| Polifemos' leg (over 10 feet long). Roman copy of a greek original. Sperlonga, Lazio (seen in Rome). |
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| Ulisses statue from Sperlonga (seen in Rome). |
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| Bernini's famosus Apollo & Daphne group. Galleria Borghese, Rome. |
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| "Fontana delle Tartarughe" at piazza Mattei. One of the nicest fountains in Rome. |
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| Guido Reni's affresco at the Casino del'Aurora, Pallavicini Palace, Rome. |
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| piazza del Popolo, Rome. |
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| S. Maria del Popolo - Rome's first dome after the Roman Age. |
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| S. Maria del Popolo's belfry, Rome. |
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| Santa Maria in Via seen from piazza S. Silvestro, Rome. |
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| Bernini's famous Apollo & Daphne group. Galleria Borghese, Rome. |
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| Diomede, roman copy of a hellenistic original. Napoli, Museo Archeologico (seen in Rome). |
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| Paestum, Campania. Finally I see a Doric column! It is heavy and strangely proportioned. But nonetheless it has a raw beauty. |
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| Paestum, column of the quadriporticum. |
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| Poseidon Temple with it's massive doric columns. Paestum was a Grrek city in Italy, part of the Magna Grecia territory. |
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| Paestum, Temple of Poseidon. |
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| Inside a bus. Ugliness is easy to depict. |
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| My third son, Luca, when he was one year old. |
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| Manuela reading, as always! |
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| Rome's typical pine tree near the Campidoglio |
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| Piazza Giovanni da Priora, Garbatella, Rome. This is a very nice building from the twenties. That was a bakery in the front door, later it became a bar and now it's famous because of various TV settings done in the 00's. |
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| Beautiful temple angle at the Fori Imperiali. |
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| Composite capital at the Fori Imperiali (Imperial Forum). |
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| An "edicola", typical Madonna worship stand in Rome. There are dozens of them along the city's ways. This one is near my house in the Garbatella neighborhood. |
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| S. Maria del Loreto near the Trajan Column. This belry was called "la gabbia dei grilli" (the cricket's cage) at the time it was built (1580). |
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| Corinthian capital, via del Teatro di Marcello. |
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| The Portico d'Ottavio seen from via del Teatro di Marcello. |
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| Apollo's temple, via del Teatro di Marcello. |
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| Beautiful chimney at via del Portico d'Ottavio, inside Rome's old ghetto. |
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| Composite capital at the Fori Imperiali. |
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| Old widows walking ubder the hot sun of south Italy. It was common for older women to keep using mourning black dresses for the rest of their lives, after their husband's death. |
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| Tropea seen from the south. Old buildings face the Mediterranean sea underneath. |
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| Museo Archeologico in Vibo Valentia, Calabria. This is a massive and imposing mediaeval fortress now fully restored. |
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| Calabrian clouds above me... |
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| Olive trees at Zambrone. Olive oil is one of the treasures of italian kitchen. |
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| Sunset seen from Priscopio (Zambrone). In this time of the year (first days of september) the sun sets nearer and nearer behind the Stroboli vulcan. This vulcan is about 60 miles offshore from Zambrone and can be seen only on clear days. It was immortalized by Victor Hugo in his famous romance "voyage to the center of the Earth". |
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| On september first at sunset the sun is almost behind the Stromboli's mouth. |
