Reading and Roaming
ARREZO’S PLACE We arrived in Arezzo yesterday for three nights. Arezzo is not as much on the tourist circuit as Siena, Cortona, and other Tuscan towns. In fact, Debora, our lively guide today, described Arezzo as “the ugly duckling.” It’s a real city and much bigger than Siena or Cortona, but it has not had the same influx …
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SETTING Cortona is a town in Tuscany built on a hillside at an elevation of 2,000 feet. Some of its original walls remain and the architecture is primarily medieval. It was an Etruscan kingdom, then a Roman colony, then independent, and in the 15th century part of the Medici holdings. When Italy was united into …
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FARNSWORTH AT 75 One of our favorite places to visit while in Maine is the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland. Aside from their extension collection of works by three generations of the Wyeth Family, they have wonderful special exhibitions. We hoped we’d see the Edward Hopper/Andrew Wyeth exhibit, but it was only up for a short time, and we …
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TREES IN ART Van Gogh’s Cypresses (Metropolitan Museum of Art) The last exhibit we visited in Manhattan this month was the small, but fascinating, collection of Van Gogh’s Cypresses. Probably Van Gogh’s most famous painting is The Starry Night. When we saw it here, we were made aware of the tall dark cypress trees on the left. Something I hadn’t paid …
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