During
our stay in Umbria at Villa Pieve my girl and I went on two separate day trips
to Firenze (Florence) with her class, once with her professor Mark Moak and the
second with her painting professor Jim Baken. Both trips were amazing and
extreme fun for my girl.
The first trip was on a Sunday so my poor girl was starting to get worried that she wouldn’t be able to go into the Santa Maria del Fiore church (it’s her favorite church in the world, nothing compares to Santa Maria in my girl’s eyes). However, my girl’s attention was quickly taken up upon finding the bronze statue of Persus slaying Medusa, a piece of metalwork that my girl simply adores. My girl found a similar fondness for the piece in her classmate Cally who was just as eager and see and document such an amazing master piece. . . . . . they found it within ten minutes of arriving into Firenze. I swear those girls have a nose for master pieces. They even found the guild house (it houses the sculptures of patron Saints of all the guilds in Firenze) within a couple of minutes of leaving Persus and Medusa.
During this time my girl was catching glimpse of the Basilica of Santa Maria and the Cupola on top of the Duomo causing my girl to get extremely excited and frantic. She took nearly a million photos once she found her church and the Baptistery. Unfortunately, at the time Santa Maria was closed for mass and my poor girl was so disappointed. . . . . there was no time posted for when it’ll open, if it’ll open for that day.
So bucking up my girl head to the Academia museum with her classmates were she laid eyes on Michelangelo’s Davide. . . . . and let me tell you that piece is twice as inspiring and amazing in person as it is in art books and history class. My girl’s one classmate was so enthralled with Davide that she left her backpack on the floor and practically floated to the colossal statue, completely unaware of her surroundings.
The first trip was on a Sunday so my poor girl was starting to get worried that she wouldn’t be able to go into the Santa Maria del Fiore church (it’s her favorite church in the world, nothing compares to Santa Maria in my girl’s eyes). However, my girl’s attention was quickly taken up upon finding the bronze statue of Persus slaying Medusa, a piece of metalwork that my girl simply adores. My girl found a similar fondness for the piece in her classmate Cally who was just as eager and see and document such an amazing master piece. . . . . . they found it within ten minutes of arriving into Firenze. I swear those girls have a nose for master pieces. They even found the guild house (it houses the sculptures of patron Saints of all the guilds in Firenze) within a couple of minutes of leaving Persus and Medusa.
During this time my girl was catching glimpse of the Basilica of Santa Maria and the Cupola on top of the Duomo causing my girl to get extremely excited and frantic. She took nearly a million photos once she found her church and the Baptistery. Unfortunately, at the time Santa Maria was closed for mass and my poor girl was so disappointed. . . . . there was no time posted for when it’ll open, if it’ll open for that day.
So bucking up my girl head to the Academia museum with her classmates were she laid eyes on Michelangelo’s Davide. . . . . and let me tell you that piece is twice as inspiring and amazing in person as it is in art books and history class. My girl’s one classmate was so enthralled with Davide that she left her backpack on the floor and practically floated to the colossal statue, completely unaware of her surroundings.
The
second trip to Firenze my girl was able to get into Santa Maria and also able
to climb up to the Cupola. . . . . and let me tell you! That is quite the
climb, 463 steps in fact and I do have to say I’m really proud of my girl for
being able to climb up to the top of the Duomo. . . . . . she’s completely
afraid of heights and I swear she nearly fainted at several different points,
especially the section that opened up on the inside of the church (the walkway
was barely three feet wide).
Also on this trip my girl and a few of her classmates were able to go to the Uffizi museum, the museum was once the palace of the powerful Medici family and now housed a great many masterpiece, one of them being the Birth of Venus (which I personally thought was bigger that what it actually is). It was an extremely mind blowing place to be able to see.
Also on this trip my girl and a few of her classmates were able to go to the Uffizi museum, the museum was once the palace of the powerful Medici family and now housed a great many masterpiece, one of them being the Birth of Venus (which I personally thought was bigger that what it actually is). It was an extremely mind blowing place to be able to see.
With love,
M.D. and Jazz
M.D. and Jazz
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