Mid-Terms are over!

Yesterday, we had Art Histroy and saw the end of our two days of Mid-Term Critiques.

Art history saw us meet Peter at the Florence Cathedral Baptistry, where he talked to us about the design of the structure it's self and about the significance of it's three doors (mainly who created them). Also, how the Baptistry was used as inspiration for early renaissance architecture. Peter, seems to know everyone in Florence, as while he was talking he stopped someone on the street riding a bike to engage in greetings (who is a great artist who we'll be visiting later). Also, later we visited a fantastic quiet little church out of the way of the throngs of tourists in the Piazza della Limbo, which is where they buried babies who died before they could be baptized. Anyway, inside the church, the priest came out who Peter also greeted warmly. A really funny guy. He kept on reminding us to bring a towel to Venice, as we'll need a towel.

Afterwards we had Crit's. It was long and tiring to go through it, but seeing everyone else's work consolidated together for the first time was really great to see, especially as I've not even really had the chance yet to see some of my colleagues work. I ended up going first today, by virtue of my last name. I got a lot of good feedback and ideas to expand from. Everyone else's work is quite stunning. We have a very talented selection of artists here. After we finished Adam, Iskuhi, Michelle, Megan and myself decided it'd be great to have a celebratory dinner, so we went to a pub near the school we've been calling "Sneaky Dee's" as it reminds us of a similar place in Toronto. Also, they have the most delicious Chicken Wings I've ever had. The drinks they have are terribly expensive, but the food is reasonably priced. After that, we hung out at Meg's place while calling the rest of our classmates to get together and hang out on the steps of Sante Croche and sort of party. Turned out well and we all had a very good time.

Tomorrow we head to Venice, which is really exciting. I'm not too sure what to expect there, but it should be great in any case.

Here are some random pictures I took while walking around. All around Piazza della Duomo.