Time like your cheek...

...has turned for me.

Do you know anything about Sam Beam? i.e. Iron & Wine?
If not, I suggest you inform yourself audi-ally.

Uneventful Easter. It's been raining too much lately. We had Easter "pranzo" with Jacopo's folks and they invited us after to an art exhibition "ottocento" at the Scuderie del Quirinale. Lots of Francesco Hayez.He's a new favorite of mine. Has a knack for depicting dark haired, gypsy like women in melancholic moments and their peasant-topped dresses loosely clinging to their breasts. It's really quite engaging.



Another work that grabbed my attention was a sculpture in marble by Domenico Trentacoste, "La Derelitta" called "The Disinherited" or "Forsaken".




Title fits, don't it? Besides the niceness of me Jac and his parents all going to an art exhibition together -- it was a nice reminder of my fortune in being able to live in Rome and to take advantage of all of the treasures it has to offer -- it would be a rare day indeed in New York or Albany that i'd be likely to go to an exhibition such as this -- not because there weren't any (though the number of exhibitions here far outnumbers those in NYC) but mostly because my eyes were widely shut to most of it while I lived there-- but being here you just can't get away. Every day I come into contact with some of the most beautiful/ancient/famous/modern works of art known to man, the originals -- and many times for free (in churches).

In fact, this winter when I was back in New York I went to MoMA and the Museum of Natural History. And tried to go to the Guggenheim but it was closed.

Within the next week, Jac and I have plans to visit the Palazzo delle Esposizioni to see a three part "Mostra" (showing) about art in modern China, the legend of Speed and a National Geographic photography exhibit. Can't wait :-)

Oh, and tomorrow my dear friends Jane, Crissy and Allen are arriving -- Jac and I are taking the day off to do some alpine snowboarding and then we are going to meet up with them.

These are good days...