Today's class activity was to visit the Bargello--a sculpture and decorative arts museum, in a building that has served as a palace, prison and government center. It is a really wonderful museum--lots of neat things to see, but a really nice building too. I'll just post a bunch of pictures instead of trying to describe it. One interesting thing though: Probably the most famous sculpture there is Donatello's David, but it was in restoration. However, they are conducting the restoration right in the gallery so you can watch the conservators work. Pretty cool--better than when they just put up a little sign than says "sorry, work not on view".
PS Just to let you all know too--today was a very good day for food! The best panino ever (for only 2.50!), super-good peach gelato, and yummy pizza and chocolate cake at Simon's old favorite restaurant.
PPS A note about the gelato: I tried ordering in Italian, and the lady quickly corrected my pronunciation. Upon further contemplation, I think I probably said something that sounded like "a small cone of fish gelato please" (the words for fish and peach are surprisingly similar, especially if you don't know how to speak italian) but thankfully the lady didn't laugh and no one else was around to hear.
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The Bargello reminds me of some of those paradors we stayed in in Spain.
The fretboard on the stringed instrument is tres cool.
Why is there a sculpture of a turkey? I thought the turkey was an American bird, unknown in Europe.
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