INVISIBLE CITIES

INVISIBLE CITIESALMUDENA DAZ RUBIOOnline Greenlight ReviewContentsThumbnailsChosen cityMission statementInfluence mapsKey thumbnailsLinks to other assignmentsTHUMBNAILS

Anastasia (1-6) Argia (7-11) Armilla (12-17) Baucis (18-22) Despina (23-26) Diomira (27-30)

Ersilia 31-34 Esmeralda 35-40 Fedora 41-43 Isaura 44- 46 Leonia Moriana Octavia

Phyllis Sophronia

Tamara Thekla

Zenobia Zirma

Diomira

CHOSEN CITY - DiomiraLeaving there and proceeding for three days toward the east, you reach Diomira, a city with sixty silver domes, bronze statues of all the gods, streets paved with lead, a crystal theater, a golden cock that crows each morning on a tower. All these beauties will already be familiar to the visitor, who has seen them also in other cities. But the special quality of this city for the man who arrives there on a September evening, when the days are growing shorter and the molticolored lamps are lighted all at one at the doors of the food stalls and from a terrace a womans voice cries ooh!, is that he feels envy toward those who now believe they hace once before lived an evening identical to this and who think they were happy, that time.MISSION STATEMENTFrom all Calvino cities, I have chosen Diomira. I could tell you a lot of reasons why I have chosen it, but I think the most important one is because, although I know Diomira is described as a beautiful city full of beatutiful domes and statues of all its Gods, I think Diomira is not all that beauty that Calvino is explaining. I think Diomira is all about how we see that kind of beauty. Diomira is about that moment in which people feel they have seen everything and nothing is new for them, so they may feel envy of how other people see the city for their first time, people may feel envy of that hope, that hapiness they can not have.When I was reading Diomira for the first time, of course I had that feeling beacuse it was kind of familiar for me, I mean that I have been to places like Diomira before. It seemed to me that I was imaging a real city and not a fictional one. Because of this, I found it very interesting to draw Diomira in a way in which I can show you both feelings.Another reason why I wanted to draw Diomira is beacuse the buildings and the statues Calvino is describing drew my attention.EXTERIOR INFLUENCEMAP

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