Joe Andriano's Site
Last year (2020) on Earth Day, during Covid quarantine, I wished I could take a spin somewhere, anywhere . . .
(That tee shirt was 30 years old, which means I've probably worn it thirty times)
So far, the trip of my lifetime was
A "Smithsonian Journey" to Southern Italy in 2017.
To ensure I'd remember as much of it as possible,
I wrote a photo essay of the trip
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Below,
from our 2018 trip to Florence, some of my favorite artistic
monsters . . .
"Perseus freeing Andromeda" (c.1510)
at the Uffizi.
I've always enjoyed Piero di Cosimo's grotesque depiction of the
monster Cetus
Jason taking
the Golden Fleece from the dragon,
at the Bargello. Pietro Francavilla, 1589
Cellini's Perseus with the Head of Medusa (c.1550)
in the Piazza della Signoria
Carravagio's Medusa (1597), the
Uffizi.
The decapitated Gorgon isn't quite
dead yet!
**************************************************************Our last trip, before the Covid 19
pandemic grounded us, was a Smithsonian river-boat cruise
in April 2019 to Belgium and the
Netherlands.
[more soon]
