Travel Snapshot – “Madonna and Child” Street Painting in Florence

Street painting has been a culture in Europe since 16th century. It is an street art normally done by those unknown local artist with the intention of raising money from the public. These artists normally copy a painting onto the public street with sidewalk chalk from the morning and complete it by the evening and wash it off afterward. It does normally attract crowds and donations.

Technical Data: Nikon D60 with Tamron SP10-24mm, ISO 100, shutter speed 1/30s, Aperture F4 at 14mm focal length, No flash, sRGB color space.

I took this photo on a street painting in Florence. This artist was painting the “Madonna and child” with reference to a copy of the artwork in his left hand. It was 7pm and the painting was nearly completed. 4 plates were placed at 4 corners of the painting frame. Great work! Huge crowds were drawn to the scene and coins kept filling up the plate. I bet this guy had really good fun and ‘fund’ to paint it everyday repeat and repeat… 🙂

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Cecil Lee

The author is an avid traveler and photography hobbyist who loves to share with others his travel and photo-taking experience in many popular tourist destinations around Europe, Asia and Australasia. Read the exciting stories with many photos captured on his journeys.