Thursday, April 9, 2009

Black Horses Playing

This is one of a pair of statues in front of the National Assembly of Serbia and is entitled Black Horses Playing, though I don't think I'd like to play with a horse this way. The National Assembly's construction was started in 1907, with the cornerstone being laid by King Petar I. The sculpture was placed in front of the building in 1939.

LE FACTEUR ROULIN

 Here a very large mural of van Gogh's Portrait of the Mailman Roulin gazes down on the Rue de Rivoli near the Marais section of Paris, ...