Monday 5 January 2009

MARVELLING AT THE MARVELLOUS

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"Do you notice the variegated splendour
of the walls and windows?
It looks as if Genius
had followed the caprices of a child,
in the adornment of these singular temples."


- Hans Christian Andersen


"An English child in Venice, on seeing the Place St Mark
for the first time, is said to have asked,
'Pray Mama, are people allowed to see this every day,
or only on Sunday?'"


- William Dean Howells


Images: Brian Sibley & David Weeks © 2006/8

For more Venice imagery, visit my website to view the album Venice Observed and then follow the links at the foot of that page to three further albums of photographs.

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