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Val d'Orcia
$22.00
The valley south of Siena that became a Renaissance painting before it became a UNESCO site. Cypresses single-file along the ridges. Small chapels at the end of long white roads. The hills go from green in May to copper in October, the same palette Ambrogio Lorenzetti laid down in his fresco of Good Government in Siena's town hall, six hundred years before any of this was protected. Five hill towns share the valley between them: Pienza, Montalcino, San Quirico d'Orcia, Castiglione, Radicofani. Nobody on the road at six in the morning except a flock of sheep and the man who minds them.
Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.