ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 9月7日 02時00分

In the 1530s, Cardinal Marcello Cervini, the future Pope Marcellus II, bought Castello Cervini, a medieval monastery surrounded by chestnut trees in Tuscany’s Vivo d’Orcia estate. Since his death in 1555, his family has retained the property for four centuries and counting.

By the time the photographer @simonpwatson visited in 2002, Marcellus’s descendants Daria Cervini and her siblings had turned the castle into a summer retreat. But many tokens of the family’s past remained. Watson is a master of light and color, and his work has earned comparisons to that of the Dutch masters. He captured what he calls the residence’s “poetic beauty,” which, along with his photos of 19 other homes, is included in his forthcoming book, “The Lives of Others.”

“Aesthetic beauty is what stirs me and what always will,” said Watson, adding, “I suppose because I grew up in Dublin, I had a natural affinity for the Georgian sensibility. I spent time living in old houses with crumbling plasterwork and broken floorboards.”

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