Florence is an awesome city...
Thursday, October 11, 2007
So Emily and I have been here for about 8 hours. But I've just got two observations:
1) Michelangelo's David is redonkulous. No human being should be able to carve something like that out of marble. The kneecaps, the tendons in the legs, the veins in the hands - a tour guide in Rome earlier this week who was showing us the Pieta in St. Peter's said, 'Great sculptors know how to make marble look soft. Michelangelo makes it look like ice cream.' I'll second that. Ol' David looked like he was going to walk right off that podium (and maybe go looking for some boxers).
2) The Duomo (that is, cathedral) in Florence is unbelievably huge. Emily and I only saw it from the outside tonight, but we are going to go in tomorrow. This may be a sad commentary on the time in which we live, but when I first saw it today, I thought it was part of a movie set.
So I had hoped to blog more from Italy, but I've been trying to stay away from the computer. And hey, that's a good thing, right?
posted by Andrew C. Thompson at 2:57 PM
2 Comments:
Glad you're enjoying it. I absolutely loved Florence when I was there and would go back in a heartbeat. You have gone, or will go to, the Uffizi...right??
Yup. We spent over three hours in the Uffizi on our second day in Florence. I think I could have spend three more if we had had another day to stay there. It was an incredible museum. The Galleria dell'Academia (sp?) across town was great well.
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