In the Sugar Bush The search is over! This painting that exhibited at Woodward's homecoming when he sent seven paintings to the 7th An-nual exhibition at Bradley Polytechnic Institute in Peoria, IL, a month after winning the Hallgarten First prize at the National Academy of Design's annual ...
The church in fiction A character in Dan Brown's novel Inferno throws himself from the Badia campanile. A parapet is mentioned but, from below at least, there doesn't seem to be one. Opening times Open all day for prayer, and for weekday evening vespers and weekend masses at midday, bu...
Mainardi is the subject of a famous 17th-century painting by Il Volterrano (Baldassare Franceschini)The Parson's Jest (see right), now in the Palatine Gallery of the Pitti Palace. The inscription on the tomb reads 'Piavano Arlotto had this sepulchre made for himself, and for anyone who wa...