Rooftops --- Siracusa
                    
  color pencil 11" x 14"
Mi reino de las dos Sicilias
sketches from trips to Naples and Sicily
José Grave de Peralta
Toroazul Painting and Fine Arts
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This page contains images from my travel
sketchbook to the South of Italy. Searching for
the more Greek land and seascapes, I discovered
an even much more fascinating layering of
histories including the Aragonese, Angiovin, and
Norman cultures that produced the fabled
Kingdom of the Two Sicilies under the Spanish
Bourbons in the 1700s.

These
drawings
were
done
on site.
Napoles  --- Castel dell'OVO
                  
color pencil 11" x 14"
Norman column in Palermo
                  
color encil 11" x 14"
El canto de San Caetano ~~
Napoles
              
color pencil 11" x 14"
Noto -- labyrinth pattern
                  
  color pencil 11" x 14"
Siracusa -- Greek faith of Light
                
  color pencil 11" x 14"
Noto -- Spanish epoch rooftops
              
  color pencil 11" x 14"
Siracusa -- Needle in Jewish quarter
              
  color pencil 11" x 14"
Villa Armerina -- la Collina d'Oro
                
color pencil 11" x 14"
Palermo: San Cataldo y La Martorana
              
color pencil 11" x 14"