Zocchi's patron, a rich merchant named Andrea Gerini, set him to work drawing streets, squares, churches & palaces of Florence, and the villas of the surrounding countryside.
That construction drew street protests as Dominicans, in economic crisis at the time, denounced a price tag of about $100 million.
Mr. Gorbachev's remarks come after days of demonstrations against the authorities that have drawn street protests of a size unseen in Russia in years.
A 1964 conceptual piece by the Dutch artist Stanley Brouwn is about finding one's way: he stopped strangers in the street in various cities and asked them to draw street maps for him.
Drawing: Haven Street Elevations, WTS.
Claudel studied drawing two streets away on rue de la Grande Chaumière, at Académie Colarossi, where Paul Gauguin also studied.
Eventually, he was drawn to Street News, which he had sold when he was on the streets.
Nor are frugal travelers the only visitors drawn to street food.
Drawn by street cartoonists, they accentuate his goofiness: big teeth, high forehead, prominent conk.
He was drawn to street scenes with their line of storefronts, signs and overlapping, peeling posters.
