Il Moro

This youth is Pancrazio Bucini, known as Il Moro (the Moor), of Taormina, Sicily. This and many other photos of Bucini were made by his employer, Wilhelm von Gloeden, a German baron who lived in Taormina from the late 1870s until well into the 20th century. Von Gloeden was active as a photographer for several decades, attaining considerable fame. I made this drawing from a von Gloeden photo dating from the early period of von Gloeden's life in Taormina, during the last quarter of the 19th century.