Giant Birds - two paintings by Etienne Delessert

Geometry of Plants - Photos by Robert Henri Noailles (1947)

1. Coltsfoot.

2. Young burdock bud.

3. Fruit of cranesbill.

4. Fireweed fruit.

5. Bindweed bud.

6. Half-opened ragwort inflorescence.

7. Dandelion bud.

8. closed umbel of carrot flower.

9. Fruit of scarlet pimpernel.

10. Maple buds.

11. White currants.

12. Poppy bud.

Aesop's Fables illustrated by Fulvio Bianconi (1946)

1. The Wolf and the Sheep

2. The Mosquito and the Lion

3. The Fox and the Grapes

4, 5. The Fly

6. The Wild Boar and the Fox

7, 8. The Deer and the Vine

9, 10. The Fighting Cocks and the Eagle

11. The Earthworm and the Fox

12.  The Hen and the Cat

13, 14. The Oxen and the Axle-Trees

Wearing the Cosmos - Slovakia

                                       

1. A young bride in a dance costume - Čajkov.

2. Details of ornamental decorations of bonnets - Veličná - early 20th Century.

3. Detail of the puffed sleeves of a blouse - Benuš - early 20th Century.

4. Weaving detail - Ždiar - early 20th Century.

5. Detail of embroidered festive blouse with puffed sleeves - Rybany - early 20th Century.

6, 7. Details of blouses with embroidered puffed sleeves - Soporna - early 20th Century.

8, 9, 10, 11. Ornamental bands of a woman's costume - around Prievidza - end of 19th Century. 

12. Edging of a band of a woman's costume - Piešťany - early 20th Century.

13. Detail of embroidered blouse with puffed sleeves - Slovakia - early 20th Century.

14. Ornamental decoration of bonnet, detail - Závadka - early 20th Century.

15, 16. Bonnets - Liptovská Lúžna - early 20th Century.

Sleeping Stones - Caves of Maurizio

Maurizio Becherini (1859 - 1932)

In 1918, this barber and tailor decides to live like a hermit in the Forra forest, located a few kilometers away from Gambassi, his Tuscan native village. In a little more than six years (until his death), he builds his own Jerusalem: he puts together footbridges, he sculpts the walls of the cave where he sleeps, he embellishes it with a few statues, some self-made and others acquired, he builds an altar in the relief and a little chapel surrounded by faces, he erects statues of saints (notably those of the Redeemer and of St Peters). He uses concrete, chicken coop wire netting as frame, stones and shells to form the head, buttons for the eyes, large bicycle sprockets for the halos. During the numerous pilgrimages taking place in the 20's, photographs of the place and of the creator were taken and became postcards. After the death of the hermit, some works went missing, while others were damaged by the bad weather and by the forest. Today, we are only left with a few evocative traces destined to disappear.