A famous view of a famous building. How many tourists to Siena turn the corner by San Domenico and stop to see the city rising like barnacles on the opposite hill? I know I did.
This etching is based on a pencil drawing I made on site, which you can see here. I made a quick watercolour as well, as the sun went down. See it here.
Note how both watercolour and drawing show a mirror image of this picture. That's because the process of etching flips the image.
To begin with, our perception of the world is deformed, incomplete. Then our memory is selective. Claude S
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