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Piazza San Pietro, Roma
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$85.00
*All of my Travel Sketches may be re-painted by commission. If you see one you like that is sold or you'd prefer in different colors, contact me!*
The epic mother church - San Pietro in Roma - and its papal surroundings are intended to inspire awe. They are awesome. I thronged with the crowd to see the Pope, sort of accidentally, and was just a few feet from the Holy Father atop his white limousine. When I finally got into the church, dressed per usual in a nice black tee and knee length skirt, I was kindly asked to leave for my attire was inappropriate. I happily ended up in the piazza after the crowd dispersed, drawing, as usual, the in-between spaces, the not so epic things that caught my eye. I drew the view through each of the columns in the monumental colonnades. As I sketched the view on the other side of the colonnade, the “outside”, an elderly woman befriended me and we sat together on a stone bench - made my day.
I made the ink drawing as an architectural history graduate student on fellowship from University of Virginia in 2012. I used watercolor to interpret and enliven the drawing during pandemic quarantine, Spring 2020.
Watercolor Paper 140gsm
16” x 20”
Frame not included
I'm excited to bring nearly 100 of my architectural Travel Sketches, created in mostly Italy, but also Switzerland, France, Spain, Greece, Hungary and Czech Republic from 1998 - 2012, into a Collection: lines drawn on site now illuminated by watercolor. Together, they reveal my personal evolution in architectural travel sketching and offer a piece of travel art that can remind you of your own memories in place, invite you into these spaces with your own experiential vision and, hopefully, offer hope that these piazzas and streets, now quieter than ever, endure, beautifully, and will again fill our senses with life.
Thanks for helping to DO GOOD and GIVE BACK: 25% of the sale of each piece will be donated to Lifting Hands International* (LHI), a 501(c)(3) public charity that specializes in international and domestic relief and aid for refugees of war-torn countries of origin.
I'll also donate 5% of the sale of this piece to the University of Virginia School of Architecture for student assistance/scholarship for travel study abroad.