Caterina By Moonlight

Lady Walker's Diary and Notes of Interest

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Leonardo DaVinci sketches a conspirator

(from page 133) The walk back to the Medici palazzo took us past the Signoria, where bodies in various degrees of decay still hung from...

Botticelli on Fra Lippi's Sin

I was immersed in Boccaccio’s Decameron.… “What amuses you, Caterina?” Sandro asked while cleaning his brushes. “In almost every story,...

Donatello's Homoerotic David

Carlo was enraptured. “Wonderful.” He could not tear his eyes away from the sensual, young male body, and the provocative feather...

Botticelli shows Caterina his fresco

“Signor Botticelli,” she said to him. “This is Caterina. She is seven years old and enjoys drawing and I thought you might like to show...

The Palazzo Vecchio/Signoria

As we walked back to Le Murate, our arms filled with packages to give to the cook, Sister Agnese pointed out the rising walls of the new...

Caterina's Demons

Caterina at age five, remembers the fresco of demons... “I saw ladies in black robes walking outside through the big front doors. I had...

Lippi's Madonna

"When I first awoke wailing from those terrors in the night, Sister Agnese took me to see a lovely painting of the Madonna and Child, to...

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