Photographs of two of my charcoal drawings
from my days as a fine art student
in Florence, Italy (2000-2002)

In January, I wrote a post about my days as a fine arts student (2000-2002) studying at the Florence Academy of Art — where my Italian next-door neighbour was causing a lot of commotion by watching pornographic videos on the TV in his living room, with the blinds up and the window open, for all passersby to see.

Ironically, my window also opened up onto the sidewalk. I too was studying human anatomy, but never in the act of copulation. Rather, I was meticulously copying two renaissance paintings in charcoal.

Today, I've updated that post to include photos of those two drawings which I completed on my living room wall in Florence: Heinrich Hofmann's "Jesus and the Rich Young Man" and Andrea del Sarto's "Madonna and Child." Head on over to the following link to see what I was creating before I found my life calling as a novelist: https://blazingpinecone.com/news/2024/01/30/ 

John C.A. Manley

John C. A. Manley is the author of Much Ado About Corona: A Dystopian Love Story, the forthcoming All The Humans Are Sleeping and other works of speculative fiction. Get free samples of his stories by becoming a Blazing Pine Cone email subscriber at: https://blazingpinecone.com/subscribe/