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That icon of my childhood, the Loch Ness Monster, is in need of a renaissance. Nessie is burned into my memory as a huge, benign-looking pseudo-apatasaurus paddling through the murky depths. Those depths seemed to have swallowed her sometime after the 70s. You just don’t hear too much about the Loch Ness Monster these days. Seems like interest in lake monsters has moved to the Far East.

The Nessie tourism industry is still alive and well, however, in the Scottish Highlands. If you aren’t going to take the high road and visit Loch Ness yourself, then take the low road with this article; it’s a nice overview of the Nessie environs.

• jessica said:
  December 5th, 2008 at 6:34 am |
  

  Nessie Loch Ness Monster and Blak Man date 18.01.1949

  Artist M.C.Escher 1898-1972 NL

  http://www.adppolizia.com/pdf/PolNovembre08_mini.pdf
  http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=IYhTzywOYWI
  http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=RQrovNERYfU&feature=related
  http://www.irpinianews.it/comuni/news/news/?news=19596&comune=118

  
  
• jessica said:
  December 30th, 2008 at 11:07 am |
  

  “ THE POLICE MAGAZINE “
  In the Land of Janare ( Female Demons)
  A journey into the secrets Irpinia
  Amongst,legend,magic and mistery
  By: Antonio Emanuele Piedimonte
  A iourney that takes us into a mysterious past, through the ruins of the time and of the men.
  This book digs into old written and verbal tales, witnesses,books,articles and other varias materials,from which have come out old legends,stories and traditions,magic tales and strange reports,which, we,today,define as X-files.
  The book takes us to see the Irpinia With different eyes,which is,the most mysterious and aparted district of the secret Campania (Italy ).
  The volume is a sort of an “initial way”, that does not offer solutions but wants to dig into new wonders and desires such as getting into a car and drive about to discover the 119 irpinia towns,through moonlight landscapes,places and mysterious phenomenons.
  Beginning from the unexplainable skull that can be seen in the eye of the statue of the “Madonna of san Pompilio” ( from which the front cover has been inspired), to the mummy of “zi Vicienzo” in Bonito,passing through the castle of prince “Carlo Gesualdo”, on the traces of the ancient Gonza,to the infernal corner of the mephitis,and the unsustainable glare of “mamma Schiavone” ehere at her feet opens the secret garden of “ Virginio mago “ in Montevergine and the mythical DRAGON in VOLTURARA.
  Following trails of saints,devils,angels,monster,ghosts,warewolves, souls of the purgatory and much more.
  It’s a further occasion to discover the ruins of this mysterious past.that hides ancient messages and connections,revealing the way to follow the symbol and the myth.
  ANTONIO EMANUELE PIEDIMONTE, is Napolitan (Italy) 44 years old , PROFESSIONAL JOURNALIST essayist and photograpfer.He has written for the main Italians dailes and periodicals. He is presently responsible of the edition of the Campania of the “ city” , a free daily evening magazine of the “ RIZZOLI –CORRIERE “ GROUP.
  His book is on account of the “Corriere” daily of the “Irpinia” edition INTRA MOENIA,the stamping of the book was ended on November 2007,in care of Gangiano Grafica S.R.L. of Naples.
  The book contains 215 pages,the title “ Nella terra delle Janare “ on page 183 of the book is mentioned VOLTURARA IRPINA: the dragon and the rose”.
  Antonio E. Piedimonte writes that Volturara would have been one of the cities of the ( 12 Etruscans cities) of the Campania,after the destruction of Sabatia, an ancient town of Irpinia,that was conquered by the Romans about 2000 years ago.
  In Volturara there has been DISCOVERED AN UNPUBLISHED PAINT – WORK of the GREAT ARTIST and ENGRAVER the Dutch Maurits Cornelis ESCHER, the paint-work represent THE LEGEND of a modern Dragon, he too host of the lake, THE FAMOUS MONSTER OF LOCH NESS.
  The editing of the “ Il Giornale di Polizia “ has often published articles on the discovery, of this paint-work and of the Great artist and Engraver Maurits Cornelis ESCHER- The Director of this Edition has also interviewed the possessor of the this paint-work and also the Mayor of Volturara Irpina.And finally,always in care of this edition, a Press Conference was held in AVELLINO
  Where there was great interest from part of the Mass Media. –ByAnna Paternostro President of National Associationof “Amici della Polizia”.She is part of the editing staff of “Il Giornale di Polizia.-
  http://www.adppolizia.com/pdf/PolNovembre08_mini.pdf
  page 4
  http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=IYhTzywOYWI
  http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=RQrovNERYfU&feature=related
  http://www.irpinianews.it/comuni/news/news/?news=19596&comune=118
  http://www.napoli.com/stamparticolo.php?articolo=13464

  
  
• jessica said:
  April 9th, 2010 at 2:47 am |
  

  http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1645086?UserKey=

  Nessie in Italian attic mystery
  Mystery drawing may have been done by master illusionist
  By neil macphail

  Published: 13/03/2010

  ARTISTIC CONUNDRUM: The 1949 painting entitled Loch Ness Monster and Black
  Man without a Face
  More Pictures

  Our Loch Ness Monster is famed the world over, and pops up in very strange
  circumstances from time to time.

  Now she has surfaced at the centre of an art mystery in Italy.

  This centres around a charcoal drawing dating from 1949, which is described as
  Loch Ness Monster and Black Man without a Face, and which could possibly have
  been drawn by famous Dutch artist, MC Escher.

  This story of the mystery painting starts in 2005 in Volturara, a small
  village in the Italian province of Avellino, where traffic police officer
  Raffaele De Feo lives.

  When clearing out his family’s attic, he found what he called “the strange
  picture”.

  Initially he did not take any notice of it, but later, in removing the frame,
  he sees an inscription on the back of the picture, signed by MC Escher, which
  reads: “With all my heart to a friendly remembrance.”

  Now some Italians are urging art experts to authenticate the work as being
  done by Maurits Cornelis Escher, nicknamed “Mauk”, and contacted the Press and
  Journal to spread the world that Nessie “lives” in Italy.

  Escher (1898-1972) was hailed by many as one of the world’s most famous
  graphic artists. His art is enjoyed by millions of people all over the world,
  as can be seen on the many web sites on the internet. And for several years he
  lived and travelled in Italy.

  He is most famous for his so-called impossible structures, such as Ascending
  and Descending, Relativity, his Transformation Prints, such as Metamorphosis I,
  Metamorphosis II and Metamorphosis III, Sky & Water I or Reptiles.
  Read more: http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1645086?
  UserKey=#ixzz0i6QsgB2q

  http://www.eschernessie.it/