IL BEL RAGGAZZO

It’s far too easy to get lost in Venice, but sometimes this can be an advantage as, wandering around aimlessly, we came across this plaque:
Naturally, I waxed lyrical about how wonderful Modigliani was/still is and how I’d have loved to have been his model and how there was a fantastic exhibition on at the moment in Rome dedicated entirely to him and how I couldn’t wait to go to see it and blah-blah-blah. Then, Mr Whimsy-Impulsive suggested that we might as well make the most of being on Italian soil to head down to Rome to see this brilliant exhibition and in almost the next blink, we were on the train! Watching the landscape whizz past, you notice how it gets progressively hillier and sunnier the further south you go. When we got out at Rome, it was to gloriously warm sunshine.

The exhibition has been organised to mark the 100th anniversary of Modigliani’s arrival in Paris and shows about a hundred paintings, watercolours, drawings and sculptures, including 17 never before exhibited in Italy. Bliss! I have one tiny niggle, however: there weren’t enough nudes for my liking! But most definitely worth making the pilgrimage across half of Italy to see it!