Cinque

Day 5 :: Florence :: Appreciating Art

• Saw Fra Angelico's cell paintings, Masaccio's Trinity, all of Florence from the top of the duomo, Donatello's Mary Magdalene, Michelangelo's Pieta and more.
  
• If that made no sense to you... well, we studied a lot of these things in art history this semester.
• It was really exciting for me to be walking (fairly speedily) through a museum and suddenly stop and recognize a statue (out of a bunch of similar looking statues in a room) and remember (vaguely) what I'd learned about it. And sculptures especially look quite different in real life!
  
• It's never really hit me so hard before that when you teach someone about something, they'll actually care about it. Something to remember the next time I get mad at someone for not caring...

To Venice tomorrow... here starts the real test of how well I navigate. I've been to Rome and Florence before so I at least had some idea about how to get around and what I wanted to do. Bring it on!

(Trying out Twitter since texting access is far more likely than internet access! http://twitter.com/felcearto)