Florence

Framed by the silhouette of a cathedral dome and tower, the etching stacks tiers of Florentine rooftops, towers and arched buildings beneath a cloudy sky. Enormous portrait heads of bearded men in period caps flank the composition, interspersed with small standing nude figures, all rising above the multi-arched Ponte Vecchio spanning the river below, where a small boat drifts.

Meticulous fine-line etching and stippling render every rooftop, robe and facial wrinkle in crisp black and white. Stacking giant faces atop a real city in impossible scale gives the print a dreamlike, layered quality, as if the city itself were built from its own history.