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The Torre del Mangia and the Palazzo Pubblico at blue hour with the moon

Stone and Light

Florence · Siena · Rome

Photographs byVeeresh Elango

SEPTEMBER 2026

Stone and Light

Florence · Siena · Rome

Photographs byVeeresh Elango

Fifty photographs, September 2026

One

Florence

An afternoon of facades. Green and white marble, a brick dome, a fortress wall — all of it held up into the same hard September blue.

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Green and white marble facade of Santa Maria Novella with a stone figure in front

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Florence · 01

The brick dome and marble lantern of Florence Cathedral against a deep blue sky

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Florence · 02

The rusticated wall and blue-shuttered windows of the Palazzo Vecchio above a marble statue

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Florence · 03

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Two

Siena

Four days inside the walls. In through the gate and the dark passage, up through the lanes to the tower and the striped cathedral, down again into lamplight — and out the other side into an ordinary morning.

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A pointed brick gateway arch in the walls of Siena

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Siena · 01

A figure silhouetted at the far end of a dark vaulted passage

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Siena · 02

A narrow Siena lane with a wrought-iron sign and a window box of flowers

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Siena · 03

A steep narrow street in morning shadow with a lamp and a strip of blue sky

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Siena · 04

Warm brick housefronts in early sunlight along a Siena street

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Siena · 05

A walled lane looking out over the rooftops of Siena

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Siena · 06

Panorama of Siena rooftops and towers under a wide sky

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Siena · 07

The town rising toward the cathedral, seen across terracotta roofs

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Siena · 08

A carved pinnacle of the cathedral cut against plain blue sky

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Siena · 09

The striped marble campanile and dome of Siena Cathedral

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Siena · 10

The carved rose window of Siena Cathedral in low evening sun

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Siena · 11

A slender cathedral pinnacle with a gargoyle against blue

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Siena · 12

The she-wolf of Siena on her column, silhouetted against the sky

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Siena · 13

Black and white study of a carved figure set into a brick wall

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Siena · 14

Looking up from a palace courtyard to a rectangle of pale sky

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Siena · 15

The Torre del Mangia seen at the end of a shadowed street

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Siena · 16

The tip of the Torre del Mangia alone in a vast pale sky

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Siena · 17

Pale blossom branching into an empty blue sky

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Siena · 18

The Torre del Mangia and the Palazzo Pubblico at blue hour with the moon

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Siena · 19

Lit windows of the Palazzo Pubblico across the Piazza del Campo at night

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Siena · 20

An evening street hung with banners and warm lamplight

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Siena · 21

A single street lamp burning in an empty night lane

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Siena · 22

A lantern in a dark vaulted arcade

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Siena · 23

A red scooter parked against a bare brick wall

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Siena · 24

Two red rocking horses in a playground beside an old brick wall

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Siena · 25

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Three

Rome

Arriving after dark, then a morning spent among angels, fountains and carved stone. It ends the way Rome insists you end: looking up.

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A small lit object in a niche inside a brick arch at night

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Rome · 01

A Roman street at night with tail lights and lit facades

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Rome · 02

A long illuminated colonnade glowing against a black sky

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Rome · 03

A floodlit church dome and lantern at night

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Rome · 04

Saint Peter's Basilica and the obelisk under morning cloud

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Rome · 05

An angel statue on the bridge with the sun blazing behind it

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Rome · 06

A bridge angel holding a cross, backlit by the sun

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Rome · 07

A bridge angel carrying the crown of thorns against deep blue

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Rome · 08

A baroque statue raised against a cloudless blue sky

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Rome · 09

A bronze equestrian monument silhouetted on blue

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Rome · 10

A marble triton wrestling in a baroque fountain

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Rome · 11

A fountain putto riding a dolphin, carved in white marble

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Rome · 12

Brick teeth and stucco on a terracotta-coloured Roman wall

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Rome · 13

A cosmatesque mosaic band of interlocking stone circles

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Rome · 14

A carved mask and garland on a Roman entablature

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Rome · 15

The spiralling carved relief of Trajan's Column

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Rome · 16

The Colosseum seen down the avenue in afternoon light

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Rome · 17

A gilded dome oculus with a stained-glass centre

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Rome · 18

The full length of a baroque painted church ceiling

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Rome · 19

Figures tumbling through cloud in a baroque ceiling fresco

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Rome · 20

A painted saint borne upward among angels on a church ceiling

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Rome · 21

Swirling clouds and figures at the crown of a painted vault

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Rome · 22

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Stone and Light

Florence, Siena and Rome — September 2026.

All photographs byVeeresh Elango

Fifty photographs, reproduced unaltered and in full. Set in Source Serif 4. Arrow keys, drag or the corner of a page turn the leaves.

Stone and Light

Photographs byVeeresh Elango