Tag Archives: putti

Giving torch-wielding putti the side eye in the Chapel of the Blessed Giovanni Orsini, Trogir

February 4, 2016 · by · in Croatia, UNESCO World Heritage Sites · 8 Comments

Okay, so I didn’t pay much attention during mass at the Cathedral of St. Lawrence in Trogir, Croatia.  I mean, I sat quietly still and was passably respectful, but my face surely resembled that of a flounder: The reason for my flounder face?  I was straining with all my power to get a look at the Chapel of […]

Lecce, Italy: all the putti

July 21, 2014 · by · in Italy, Street food · 6 Comments

Putti wrapped around columns, garlands of putti, putti with pigeons on their heads, gilded putti holding up ceilings, putti coyly offering bunches of grapes, flying heads-with-no-bodies-putti, actual children that strongly resemble putti…. Arrive in Italy and keep going South, all the way down, right there to the tip of the boot.  Did you find a […]