Thursday, September 13, 2012

Don Donovan's World - hiesetta No. 2, Barga, Tuscany, Watercolour

Ramblings of a much published New Zealand author

13 September 2012


Leaves From My Sketchbooks. 25. Chiesetta No. 2, Barga, Tuscany, Watercolour


I sat by the swimming pool and did this daub of the upper house called Chiesetta No.2. It's so wonderfully Italian that it could exist nowhere else in the world.

A historic casa it stood on the Gothic Line in World War Two, one of Hitler's lines of last retreat as the Germans slowly lost the war. Our relatives found bullet holes and ammunition as they were restoring the house. Now, surrounded by chestnut covered slopes it is so peaceful that one could hardly imagine such a cruel history.

© DON DONOVAN
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 www.don-donovan.blogspot.co.nz

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