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Bolsena| Town in Lazio region, west-central Italy, situated at the northeast corner of Lake Bolsena, 16 km/10 mi northwest of Viterbo; population (1990 est) 4,100. The town has Etruscan remains, a 12th-century castle, and the 11th-century church of Santa Cristina. |
| Lake Bolsena has an area of 115 sq km/44 sq mi, and occupies an old volcanic crater; it contains an abundance of fish, especially eels. |
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| Two other scenes of divine intervention, also in the Stanza d'Eliodoro, include twisted, turning figures as signs of narrative reversal: the seated female figure in the lower left corner of the Mass at Bolsena, 1512, (30) and, in Repulse of Attila, 1513-14, the horseback Atrila, who responds to the appearance of saints Peter and Paul, and the Hun in the middle foreground gesturing to Pope Leo I. I shall present only two, which record the change of the Eucharist host into bleeding flesh: the miracles of Lanciano and Bolsena in Italy. They believe that if it is written Sunset (as on School of Fontainebleau, 1960), then "Here is a light-filled landscape," and they rush to fill in--in their imaginations, but also on the canvas onto which they project them--the places where they know Twombly has stayed: the Lake of Bolsena (although they always say the Lago di Bolsena, since that sounds so much sunnier, so much more Italian), the island o Ischia, the hills of Rome. |