Notes on the road

In 1998 I traveled for about 8 months, approximately, in Italy and across Europe. There were brief interruptions,

but that is what I basically did in that year. I wanted to go and visit the architectures and works of art that I had seen

in pictures and had read about in books. I started out touring a few cities of northern Italy, and then went on to France, Spain, and other countries.

I was going after the works of the spirit, and it was enlight-ening. I learned so much about art and architecture, and enjoyed it very much. Lately I’ve wondered if in the time

of internet and cyberspace it still makes sense to approach architecture in this manner. To me it did, and it still does.

Please, don’t get me wrong on this: I’m honestly feeling

enthusiastic about computers and internet, however

ignorant I still might be about these things, and I would so

much like to get to know more, but for me personally, at

that time, that was right.

The following watercolors are a partial report of the second

half of that journey. It is partial because I would also do quite a bit of sketching on notepads, all along, which isn’t here; and it only covers part of the journey because I just wasn’t doing watercolors on the first half of it, but only sketching.

Here is a list of cities or places where I was, in Italy, Greece and Turkey. By clicking on them you might get to the wa-

tercolor paintings that I did of interesting places, works of

art, architectures or monuments. Of course, I might have missed lots of things that are great and beautiful.