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Siena Duomo Heads
People of Siena – You are being watched.

Check those heads out. This is in the Duomo – the graphically striped black and white cathedral of Siena. For your viewing pleasure, I’ve called them out with big green arrows above because there’s so much other distracting stuff. No absence of decoration here.
172 popes heads peer down, carved so realistically out of marble that I imagine them gossiping above about the tourists below. See them leaning into each other to chat. Are they so holy that they’re above dishing about the shocking attire of modern tourists? Siena Duomo
Not be outdone, the exterior has all these other guys. I think they’re different people, but I’m just guessing here. You can’t be two places at once you know and I’m definitely no art historian.

And then there are also the heads on the sides of the world’s oldest surviving bank, Monte dei Paschi di Siena.

I hear that here the carvings are of famous people, Dante being one of them. They’re wondering what they’re looking at from up there.
Siena Bank Heads

Catching Up

We traveled to four countries in two weeks. My luggage went astray and journeyed to the Solomon Islands in the middle of the trip.

I posted during some of our voyage, but uploading from some places was just too slow to bear. I’ll get back to blogging now that I’m home, the interwebs are fast and friendly, and my luggage is home, safe, and unpacked.

Meanwhile, here are some photos of art from the street taken in London, Paris, and Florence. London Monkey Paris Bike Florence Trash Florence Chalk Art