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Life at the Cape of Circe

(Picture: Baron Giachetti; for detailed credit see my Das Schlaraffenleben der Kunst)

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For about fifteen years of his life, from 1900 to 1915, German born art historian and Leonardo da Vinci scholar Jean Paul Richter (1847-1937) went to live at the village of San Felice Circeo (http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Felice_Circeo). The village did observe him, and he did observe the village, as can be comprehended by reading his extensive diaries (kept by the Onassis library of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York). Or by reading my Das Schlaraffenleben der Kunst (cover picture: amazon.com).

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Bird’s eye (or flying machine) view of Monte Circeo region by Leonardo da Vinci
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Jean Paul Richter (1847-1937) (for detailed picture credit see my Das Schlaraffenleben der Kunst)

And during his first four years at San Felice Circeo Richter did – in cooperation with Alicia Cameron Taylor – research the mosaics of Santa Maria Maggiore of Rome, which resulted in their The Golden Age of Classic Christian Art of 1904 (see: https://archive.org/details/goldenageofclass00richuoft).

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And see also: http://www.seybold.ch/Dietrich/JeanPaulRichter

(Addendum: For everyone interested in the local history of San Felice Circeo: Villa Richter (or ›Villa Erinna‹, as Richter himself had called it), is to be identified with the Villa Blanc (property of Alberto Carlo Blanc) in Via del Faro (yet the current villa’s or the property’s name is, as it seems, Villa del Pino))

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