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Falcons with Human Breasts.

11-Jul-16

http://boscrowan.co.uk/2013/05/17/summer-at-last/?shared=email Spotted walking down the Via Giulia today in Rome: a pair of falcons with human breasts, sitting atop pilasters on the Palazzo Falconieri.  Apparently this oddity is the work of the ever-odd Borromini.  Borromini has never been a favorite of mine, and this is no favorite of mine either, but its weirdness is noticeable.  One […]