Bepi's House On The Island Of Burano, Italy
by Rick Rosenshein
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Bepi's House On The Island Of Burano, Italy
Artist
Rick Rosenshein
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Photograph - Photography
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The brightly colored house with geometric designs is known as Bepi's House. I had heard of this name before from previous visits to Burano but never got a chance to do any research on it. This time I did some research online for Bepi's House and it was rather interesting what I found out:
As you can see all of the houses of Burano are colored, but the house of Bepi SuĂ (also called "Bepi of Candies") is the most colored house on the island: decorated with geometric forms of all type such as circles, squares, triangles, dyed of yellow, orange, red, blue and all colors of the rainbow.
Bepi, whose real name was Giuseppe Toselli, besides being a lover of painting was also a movie buff. Passion born during his working at the Cinema Favin, where he was employed as a janitor and maintenance worker. When the cinema was closed down, he began to sell sweets in Burano's Galuppi Square: thus he got the name of Bepi of Candies.
Until the early eighties, during the warm summer evenings, he used to organize the outdoor cinema in his little square: after having hung a white sheet on the wall of his house, he would show cartoons and funny movies to the children of Burano.
Bepi is gone now. Those young children that watched those movies have all grown up and they remember Bepi being out front of his house every afternoon painting new geometric shapes on his house.
The Bepi's house now appears in many postcards and is well known worldwide. It is without a doubt the most famous home on the Island of Burano .
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July 18th, 2017
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