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Amazing artist draws Rome from memory

In Uncategorized on July 14, 2009 at 10:21 pm

Stephen Wiltshire is an autistic artist who — after a mere 45-minute helicopter ride — sketches Rome from memory on a massive canvas. He accurately fills in not only major monuments like the Colosseum, Pantheon and St Peter’s Basilica, but tons of tiny details that you and I wouldn’t remember even if we saw them every day! Watch it here.

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