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Bergamo Alta
$22.00
The old city stands on its hill above Bergamo, ringed by walls the Republic of Venice raised in 1561. Inside them, Piazza Vecchia holds a fountain, a tower, and the worn stone of five centuries of market mornings. Every night the Campanone rings a hundred strokes at ten, the way it once called the gates shut. The funicular still climbs the eighty-five metres up from the lower town, as it has since 1887. People come for a day and stay past dark, when the lamps catch the marble of the Colleoni chapel and the plain below goes to lights.
Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.