Parco della Montagnola Bologna Art Oil Painting

Borsheim's Art of the Human Form

Parco della Montagnola, Bologna

24" h X 36"
Oil on Canvas
© 2005
Kelly Borsheim

[art painting of statue in Bologna, Italia]

Above right: Pisa is not the only city in Italy to host a leaning tower. Bologna has il Torre Garisenda.

Bologna, Italia

I had not originally planned to go to Bologna. I was not avoiding it, I just did not know anything about it. However, one of the benefits of hosteling is meeting many travelers who give you feedback and tips along the journey. A girl named Anna that I spent a couple of days with in Perugia told me that she loved the energy in Bologna. Someone else said the same thing.

So, after I left the Amalfi coast to head north for an art reception Christiano Merra held for me at the Museo Gilardi, I had to figure out what to do with some extra time. I had originally planned to go to Caprise Michelangelo after leaving Cristiano's in Forte dei Marmi, Italia. But when I asked the hostel which bus to take, I began to understand that it was highly unlikely that I would find the birthplace of Michelangelo without a car. As it turned out, the hostel in Bologna had an opening . . .

I look forward to returning to Bologna -- there is still so much more I have yet to see!

Images of Bologna, Italia (Italy)

Above: Entering Parco della Montagnola (ruins next to the modern construction), Sea Horse and Maiden fountain (dry when I was there), and below: an Italian woman took this image of the artist at work. Below right: painted on-site, original sketch in acrylic on watercolor paper on which the above painting was based.

[Borsheim paints Bologna, Italia, Italy] [Borsheim original acrylic sketch, Italia, Italy]

[Neptune Sculpture, Bologna, Italia, Italy] [Bologna, Italia, Italy]

[Strada Maggiore, Bologna, Italia, Italy] [Church, Bologna, Italia, Italy]

Above: A scene along Strada Maggiore and a lovely church I passed as I walked with a new friend in search of the church housing the early Michelangelos (Basilica di San Domenico). Below: Del Teatro Anatomico -- a classroom in which corpses were dissected for anatomy studies; Center and right: Basilica di San Domenico. Father Tarcisio gave me a personal tour of the museum and rooms behind the altar. I loved this wooden statue -- such detail and life! Right: The sarcophagus of the church's patron saint.

[Del Teatro Anatomico, Bologna, Italia, Italy] [Basilica di San Domenico, Bologna, Italia, Italy] [sarcophagus of Saint Domenick, Bologna, Italia, Italy]

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