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Arcade With Barrel Vaulting in Udine, Friuli, Italy Royalty Free Stock Photo

Carved Head on Udine Town Hall, Friuli, Italy

A bas-relief keystone mask on Udine's Town Hall, Palazzo d'Aronco, in Italy. It depicts a blindfolded man with donkey ears. One legend is that a barber constantly criticized and teased the architect who repaid him by creating a satirical mascaron of him on the arch facing his shop. Another legend is that it was added to mock a stubborn shopowner who refused to sell his land when the town wanted to