Dr Emanuele Pantanella

Emanuele Pantanella kept a tiny, ring-bound sketchbook in his pocket for years, filling it with sharp little drawings of jewelry he wanted to make—a cigarette case here, a bracelet there—and stray things that caught his eye, like a mosque in Iran or a rocky cliff on Capri. He copied Delacroix’s sketch of an Arab’s head, traced Etruscan bronze vessels, and sketched Cycladic sculptures just to see how they worked. His little book is a quiet map of everywhere he wandered. Carry one of those pocket sketchbooks when you visit Capri and copy the view—just like he did.