October 13th

To be honest, the last few days have been fairly uneventful. Wednesday, we went to the Museo Del Bargello. It's this huge building that used to be at one point the center of law in Florence. The high judge would live the place and people would be executed in the court yard. We went for our art history class, as the place is now houses the single largest collection of renaissance sculpture in the world. The place is also quite large, with multiple parts closed to the public too. I failed to take any pictures while we were there, as we had a rather rapid-fire tour through some of the more important works in the museum. I was more focused on listening to Peter (our proff) then I was with being a tourist.

However, the things we saw, can be seen easily on a google search though. We saw Donatello's David and St George, Michelangelo's Bacchus and Madonna Tondo, as well as the two competition peices for the second door of the Florence Baptistry, submitted by Brunelleschi and Ghiberti.

Fairly exciting stuff. The place is only about a 20min walk from where I live. Also, with this neat-o museum card I have I can get in for free as many times as I want.

There was one part which was closed (unusually), which featured a bust and a wall fresco. It was blocked by a cast iron gate. Peter mentioned that we could have asked a guard to open the door, but as Peter said "Florentines will only open the door if they want to".

Sunday is games day, which I'm excited for. Next week we are all going to Venice between friday and sunday, so that's going to be exciting too.

Anyway, my wall I've been storing my pictures is getting a bit more crowded.





Also, a picture looking east along the Arno from one of the bridges.


That's all for now!