The Accademia in Florence has this one room of Michelangelo statues, some paintings by Michelangelo’s teacher and then some lesser works, but the line is always around the block. They only let in certain amounts of people at a time and you have to wait for some to leave before you can get in. Basically, there is David and then some unfinished statues of his that makes everyone come here. You do have to hand it to them that they display David to advantage. I would love to show you pictures, but you can’t take pictures anywhere in Florence.
You might hurt the pictures, marble or any other thing that you would want a picture of. I’m not sure why they are like this, but it is always a rule here. I would be okay with this stricture if I didn’t have to adhere to it while watching everyone else take pictures with their phones etc. It annoys me. Either allow pictures or take away everyone’s phone and cameras so that it is even. David is impressive, but he has all these electrodes attached to him in order to monitor the fractured
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| a cool exhibit on Caravaggio's work reimagined that we found |
marble in his
leg. This was the trip of highly
monitored works of art including the leaning tower, the Last Supper, etc. We had our first big getting lost episode
today in that one student didn’t get going as fast as everyone else and then
Rachel stayed back to wait for her, while the rest went on to the Galleria, but
they thought that they saw us turn down a road and John saw them turn down a
road and these different roads both led to the leather markets. Which if you have been to Florence are not a
place that you will EVER find someone else unless you don’t want to and then
they’ll appear when you’re spending way too much money on leather goods. Once everyone got back together it was a good
lesson on being ready on time for whatever we’re doing for the day. After David, we got check in fully to the
hotel, freshen up, and went to dinner together and walked around Florence to
get the lay of the land.
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