Pietro Brosio Gallery: 2012

31 December 2012

8 December 2012

31 October 2012

Sundial 15

Sundial of a house in the town of Grugliasco (Turin). The inscription says: "Nunc et semper".

15 October 2012

Palazzo Reale

Turin - The Palazzo Reale (1640) and its grotesque masks.

5 October 2012

21 September 2012

24 June 2012

15 June 2012

Water effects

"Laudato si', mi' Signore, per sor'aqua,
la quale è molto utile et humile et pretiosa et casta."

San Francesco d'Assisi (1182-1226)

"Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher."

Morihei Ueshiba (1883-1969)

6 June 2012

Sundial 14

The seventeenth-century Church of San Lorenzo in Turin (the dome)

The clock

The sundial

29 May 2012

Madonna del Pilone

The church Madonna del Pilone (Our Lady of the Pillar) in Turin, between the river Po and the hills, derives its name from a column erected in 1587 in honor of the Virgin Mary. From 1644 it was considered miracolous and became an object of veneration: records show that in March 1645 a small chapel already existed on this site attracting large numbers of worshippers. The construction of the church began after 1645. The bell tower was added in 1787.

20 May 2012

Piazza Palazzo di Città

The City Hall of Turin was designed in 1663 by the architect Francesco Lanfranchi, and was the transformation of an existing medieval palace

The neogothic monument in front of the City Hall, erected in 1853 and representing Conte Amedeo VI di Savoia taking Gallipoli in 1366, is the work of Pelagio Palagi

Windows, balconies, arcades of the Piazza Palazzo di Città (City Hall Square)

9 May 2012

Sculptures by Tony Cragg

In Piazza d'Armi, in Turin, the sculptures by Tony Cragg (Liverpool, 1949)
More information about the artist: Wikipedia here

26 April 2012

Whiteness

Photos taken in the Susa Valley (Turin)

Where have the flowers gone?

Where have all the flowers gone,
long time passing?
Where have all the flowers gone,
long time ago?
Where have all the flowers gone?
Gone to young girls, every one!
When will they ever learn,
when will they ever learn?
Where have all the young girls gone,
long time passing?
Where have all the young girls gone,
long time ago?
Where have all the young girls gone?
Gone to young men, every one!
When will they ever learn,
when will they ever learn?
Where have all the young men gone,
long time passing?
Where have all the young men gone,
long time ago?
Where have all the young men gone?
Gone to soldiers, every one!
When will they ever learn,
when will they ever learn?
And where have all the soldiers gone,
long time passing?
Where have all the soldiers gone,
long time ago?
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Gone to graveyards, every one!
When will they ever learn,
when will they ever learn?
And where have all the graveyards gone,
long time passing?
Where have all the graveyards gone,
long time ago?
Where have all the graveyards gone?
Gone to flowers, every one!
When will they ever learn,
oh when will they ever learn?
Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time passing?
Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time ago?
Where have all the flowers gone?
Young girls picked them, every one.
Oh, when will they ever learn?
Oh, when will they ever learn?

Pete Seeger, 1956

Pietro Brosio Gallery

"The Universal Peace", 1976, oil on canvas 100x70cm.

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