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A few more of the pictures my daughter took when in Florence are below the cut. The daughter in question is currently at a hog-roast with the local young lawyers association, which sounds like good fun!

I am currently watching a television programme about the sex trade in Pompeii - which reminded me that I had these pictures uploaded to Flickr, but I hadn't shared them. The link is only Italy, though - although there is a statue of a male with a couple of semi-naked females...



Firstly a wee bit of statuary -

Florence 6


Florence 7


All very heroic... nudity has almost always been acceptable proving that it's classical and heroic!

I love these ones -

Florence 10

Florence 11

Can you imagine living somewhere with such a lovely cloistered central courtyard? And the carvings and paintings just fascinate me.

And, last for now, the cathedral. Although we will see more of it in another post.

Florence 4

A close-up of that frontage -

Florence 5

Aren't all those carved saints and bishops wonderful?



Going back to the brothels of Pompeii - which is a bit like going from the sublime to the ridiculous - I am reminded of something very weird I saw today. Sadly somewhere where I couldn't get the camera out.

As I drove along the promenade I was stuck behind a horse-tram for 50 yards or so. Just long enough to wonder about the figure sitting on the back seat; a dark haired male in his thirties or so, wearing a small red net skirt and a pair or red 'fairy-wings', and carrying a four foot long inflated penis...

Not the sort of thing you see every day, that!

Date: 14/08/2010 09:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] slaymesoftly.livejournal.com
Wonderful pictures -

And you didn't follow him to ask where he was going dressed like that? LOL

Date: 14/08/2010 09:50 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
I am still wondering about the get-up... unfortunately there was ice-cream in the shopping so I really had to just come home!

Date: 15/08/2010 10:23 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ozma914.livejournal.com
I'm sure he, um, had a perfectly reasonable explanation ....

Date: 14/08/2010 09:11 pm (UTC)
jerusha: (Default)
From: [personal profile] jerusha
Beautiful! I love those carvings.

And yum, pig roasts! I've only been to one, and the pork was excellent!

Date: 14/08/2010 09:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
The carvings are just exquisite, aren't they?


D-d had had good news about her training contract, for when she finishes her LPC next year. Nothing in writing yet, but still very positive - so going with the young lawyers for their hog roast seemed a very good way to celebrate and get to know some of them better.

Date: 14/08/2010 09:21 pm (UTC)
debris4spike: (Wow)
From: [personal profile] debris4spike
Thank you for sharing those - I went to Italy a couple of times 20+ years ago, but never got to Florence ... beautiful, no wonder it is a popular place to visit.

Date: 14/08/2010 09:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
I visited Florence, a long time ago, and it is a truly beautiful city. It was the high spot of her holiday, too, she said.

Date: 14/08/2010 09:37 pm (UTC)
shirebound: (Default)
From: [personal profile] shirebound
nudity has almost always been acceptable proving that it's classical and heroic!

I wonder if Minas Tirith is full of statues like that!

Date: 14/08/2010 09:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
You know I hadn't really thought about it - but it is quite possible, when you think Tolkien is said to have based the Gondorians on the Italians. Hmm - must think a bit more about that...

Date: 14/08/2010 10:46 pm (UTC)
shirebound: (Free to good home - anonymous)
From: [personal profile] shirebound
Yes indeed. Ponder away. :)

Date: 14/08/2010 09:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] brutti-ma-buoni.livejournal.com
Is your second statue the Rape of the Sabines? I suppose the Romans called it heroic, but blech, frankly, even if it's just an artsy excuse for naked girls in exotic compositions.

Great courtyard. (Palace? Monastery? I don't recognise it). You're making me wish I could go back to Florence, but twice is enough for now considering the length of my list of Places I Must Visit Before I Go Back To X. It takes time, without planes... sigh.

I hope your bloke had some friends, or found some pretty quickly. It sounds a drafty get-up!

Date: 14/08/2010 10:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
I'm not sure what the statue is - I'm not sure D-d was sure with a few of them - she did Classical Civ. at A level, and Romans and Barbarians in her degree - but I think the main literature content was Greek in CC, and R&B didn't cover myth and legend....

I must ask her, again, where that courtyard is - I'm sure she did tell me...

As for the bloke - there seemed to be another male dressed somewhat similarly, sitting in front of him - but he was less in my eye-line!

Date: 14/08/2010 09:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] deborahw37.livejournal.com
Wow! Gorgeous pics

And I so wish you'd got a pic of that guy :)

Date: 14/08/2010 10:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
She is happy for me to share the views and things on my journal - travel by proxy!

I wish I'd got a picture of that guy, too.

Date: 14/08/2010 10:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] clodia-metelli.livejournal.com
Amazing buildings, the decoration is so intricate! And those are lovely statues.

Date: 14/08/2010 11:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
Actually, now I think of it, those carved pillars around the courtyard are more elven than mortal... somewhere where the elves build in stone, of course...

Date: 14/08/2010 10:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] petzipellepingo.livejournal.com
Very ornate carvings.

Date: 14/08/2010 11:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
They're amazing, aren't they?

Date: 14/08/2010 10:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nutmeg3.livejournal.com
And now you know why you need a camera phone. Love the Italy pics, btw, though they pale a bit in comparison to that final image.

Date: 14/08/2010 11:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
I have a camera phone - and my camera was in my handbag with it, right on the passenger seat beside me - just that driving along the promenade is not a place where you can pause to take pictures... and if I had stopped, he would have carried on into the distance on the tram, of course!

Sad, really.

Date: 15/08/2010 12:11 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] makd.livejournal.com
Gorgeous pictures. Thanks for sharing them.

Funny thing: I saw the same show on prostitution in Pompeii - very interesting.

Date: 15/08/2010 08:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
The programme on Pompeii was fascinating.

There are a few more pictures of Florence yet... :~)

Date: 15/08/2010 07:01 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zanthinegirl.livejournal.com
My friend says "Hey! That's Florence!"

Date: 15/08/2010 07:02 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zanthinegirl.livejournal.com
Oh, and gorgeous pictures! :D

Date: 15/08/2010 08:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
Well spotted, that friend!

Date: 15/08/2010 07:47 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] kazzy-cee.livejournal.com
It always rather baffles my mind how someone can take a block of marble and then take away the stuff that doesn't fit the sculpture, leaving the figures behind. Fascinating stuff.

Date: 15/08/2010 08:50 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
Me too - it is an art I cannot begin to imagine participating in!
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Date: 15/08/2010 05:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
I'm glad they bring back good memories - there are more... sometime!

Date: 15/08/2010 10:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vilajunkie.livejournal.com
It's amazing how sculpture of the period was hyperrealistic, yet today so many sculptors want to make just the abstract or simply weird.

Date: 15/08/2010 10:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
On the whole, I think I prefer the old stuff...

Date: 16/08/2010 12:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bojojoti.livejournal.com
I want a cloistered courtyard. With a small fountain.

Date: 16/08/2010 07:16 am (UTC)

Date: 16/08/2010 07:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wormwood-7.livejournal.com
These photos are lovely. Such intricate ceilings and facades. I am going to Florence myself for the first time in the end of September.
Thanks for sharing!

Date: 16/08/2010 07:17 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
It is a beautiful city, I will post a few more pictures later this week.

Date: 16/08/2010 03:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ayinhara.livejournal.com
Nice pictures! Florence is very photogenic.

Date: 16/08/2010 05:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] curiouswombat.livejournal.com
It is, isn't it? Perhaps one of the most photogenic cities in the world.

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