Day 105: Eye Candy
If you’ve ever been to Italy you recognize this newstand. It’s complete with toys, games, gum, I don’t even know what. For a painter it’s eye candy.
The Daily Newsstand, San Saba6×8″Oil on Panel© Kelly Medford, 2012This neighborhood is a wonderful place, tucked away halfway up the Aventine Hill. The main square named after Bernini is the heart of the place. It’s lined with benches, tall pines giving lots of shade and dotted with flowers. Surrounding the square are the mini-villas that were built as public housing in the early 1900s. Each block of houses has its own garden courtyard ans was intended to house two families. The stones on the facades and in the gardens are all the same colors of the ancient Aurelian walls that surround the neighborhood and match the roamensque church that gives this place its name.