Studio: international art (56.1912)

Anticoli Corrado

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features appropriate to houses of a larger kind—
to make them miniature mansions, as it were.

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Anticoli corrado, a town

OF MODELS. BY FRANK
HYDE.

Perched high up on the very apex of a conical
mountain of 2000 feet is a little town called
Anticoli Corrado, not more than two hours and a
half by train from Rome. It is the home of the
artist’s model; when the season is over, and the
painters have deserted their studios for the fresh
air of the mountains, the model also hurries off to
his mountain home to help get in the harvest of
grain and grapes, and at the same time renew the
health and vigour which he has to a certain extent
lost by constant hard work in the overheated
studios of the capital.

It was because I could find no suitable model
in Capri that I packed up my painting traps and
started for this veritable artists’ paradise, wffiere, I
was told, every one of the inhabitants was a model,
and I should be able to get what I wanted.

It is a most romantic spot this Anticoli Corrado,
a conical mountain with a mediaeval town on the
summit, rising abruptly from a valley richly culti-
vated, through which runs a river containing some
splendid trout. Looking at the town from the
valley you wonder how on earth you are going to
get up there, especially after a glance at the splay-

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