Everything is within walking distance. Or at least it feels that way. You can just wander and run into something incredible-- be it sculpture, painting, structure, and even simply a piazza.
This morning we visited the Museum of San Marco, a collection of frescoes and paintings by the early Renaissance Master Fra Angelico. Fra Angelico, and his students, painted incredible frescoes on the walls of the ‘cells’ in the monastery. Depending on one’s status in society, your cell’s painting was anything from simple to larger-than-life with colors that would astound even those with today’s biggest box of crayons.
In the afternoon, we visited the Uffizi gallery, quite possibly the best collection of Renaissance art (and beyond) anywhere on this planet. I wish we would have had more time to discover this incredible place. To see the paintings I had seen so many times before on the pages or art and history books was a joy I’ll never forget. Seeing “The Birth of Venus”, being in the same room as some of Michelangelo’s sculpture, looking at original pencil drawings made by Leonardo daVinci - it’s something that reprints in books just can’t do justice too. Nor can I in words, so please, continue to the photos...
