Today
was a long drive, leaving Valpolicella (Amarone country) to Piemonte (Barolo
and Barbaresco country). On the way we were
passing Mantova, which we heard had a palazzo (Palazzo Te - 1524) worth checking
out for its murals. We weren’t
disappointed. Actually, the disappointment
was that we had a luncheon appointment (Food Coma No.2) and had to rush the
murals a bit. I think the pictures speak
for themselves - click on the pictures to make them bigger to get a better sense of them. The theme was Cupid and Amore...
Trevor
insisted I include this one. He said "a
picture tells a thousand words; it’s art, and it was in-dick-a-tive of the
theme”. But I think it’s just wrong…
Then
there was the Chamber of the Giants. The
room, finished in 1532 tells the story of the Fall of the Giants, taken from The
Metamorphoses by the Latin poet Ovid. Back in the day they had a fireplace
in the room; can’t even imagine how cool it must have been seeing the flames
flick across these ginormous figures. Wow!
