This door knocker is from Verona … when you look at it from a ways back, it could easily be a benevolent guardian angel, poised above your bed, making sure that no harm comes to you while you are asleep. When you have a closer look though, you start to notice that the face is a little bit frowny… there is a second face underneath the angel, which also looks like it might rather eat you while you were asleep, than prevent anything else from doing so. And what guardian angel has other creatures growing from the tips of its wings? It starts to look more and more infernal the closer you look.

It is from the city that Romeo and Juliet lived in … perhaps it is the angel of misfortune that pursued them. It does have its own magnetism and strange sort of beauty, nevertheless!

Photo credits: Verona by Andy Marshall

          

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