I do know the answer now, but only because I used Google to help me. I will leave it for now to see if Pat will know the answer without Google. Your first clue threw me off track and I never got back on it - I thought I was looking for a religious figure or leader.
Ezra Pound and Olga Rudge lie side by side in the cemetery in the Venice lagoon. The figure I photographed from three sides was commissioned by Pound, is on the small island of St. Georgio in a location not generally open to the public. The couple lived on the Zatterre in a short alley off one of the side canals.
You'd probably get something of a shock if you went back these days. All the little shops have gone - the man who heeled my shoes, the baker where I bought my daily bread, and the fruit and veg man on the corner, all given over to tacky souvenir shops. And the crowds, you can't move for selfie sticks, and hoards of immigrants selling counterfeit handbags, cheap toys, etc.. and the cruise ships getting even bigger and bigger. The last I heard they're trying to close the old fish market near the Rialto. If that goes ahead I think it'll be a very sad day.
I do know the answer now, but only because I used Google to help me. I will leave it for now to see if Pat will know the answer without Google. Your first clue threw me off track and I never got back on it - I thought I was looking for a religious figure or leader.
ReplyDeletePat, give it your best shot!
DeleteAll I can guess would be one of the Venetian islands but I don't remember seeing it on Burano, Murano or Torcello. Please put me out of my misery.
DeleteEzra Pound and Olga Rudge lie side by side in the cemetery in the Venice lagoon. The figure I photographed from three sides was commissioned by Pound, is on the small island of St. Georgio in a location not generally open to the public. The couple lived on the Zatterre in a short alley off one of the side canals.
DeleteHenri Gaudier-Brzeska was commissioned by EP to make the sculpture in 1913.
DeleteIn WWI Henri Gaudier was killed in the trenches in NW France. He was aged 23.
DeleteThank you Gwil for that info - shall do a bit of reading up about it all. Wish I was mobile enough to go back again to Venice but it is not to be.
ReplyDeleteYou'd probably get something of a shock if you went back these days. All the little shops have gone - the man who heeled my shoes, the baker where I bought my daily bread, and the fruit and veg man on the corner, all given over to tacky souvenir shops. And the crowds, you can't move for selfie sticks, and hoards of immigrants selling counterfeit handbags, cheap toys, etc.. and the cruise ships getting even bigger and bigger. The last I heard they're trying to close the old fish market near the Rialto. If that goes ahead I think it'll be a very sad day.
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