So: Siena has a very famous cathedral, covered inside and out with elaborate gothic ornament, not far from the center of town.
And around the back of the cathedral is the Baptistery.
Here's the door through which you enter the Baptistery:
Before you enter, however, you may notice that a mat is covering (and protecting) an elaborate inlay marble mosaic on the pavement outside the entrance.
If you look more closely at the mosaic figures there near the corner of the mat...
(No, better tug the mat aside so you can see them more clearly.)
I bet you'd wonder why Jimmy Corrigan, of all people, would be decorating a 14th-century Sienese cathedral!
2 comments:
I like the way the figure looks like an old man wrapped in infant's swaddling clothes--not a bad image for the bizarre manchild that is Jimmy, indeed. (I think I seriously overestimated his age in the first issue / chapter of _JC, TMKOE_ based on his appearance and his behavior in the grocery store with his jacket.)
His presence at the cathedral is quite a mystery, but not his location there - people are always walking all over the poor guy!
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