One disapppointment from our trip...

Being with an art teacher on this trip of a lifetime had its immense opportunities. What a wonderful experience to have been able to share this with Suzzette. We travelled so well together. I would do it again in a heartbeat.

I think we would both agree that one of the biggest disappointments of our trip was not being able to tour two museums. We were outside the Museum de Uffici in Florence but were not able to get in, It was not part of our tour sadly.

This amazing museum houses the largest collection of Michelangelo and Da Vinci's paintings. Obivously, the Medici family had their hand in this development as well, which I am thankful for. I am sure that many Italians of the time period would have felt differently during the time period...but so thankful for the creation of this museum.
The other museum we wished would have been part of the tour is the Academie Gallery, which houses a large amount of Michelangelo's sculptures.

 The courtyard of the Uffici Museum was lined with artists and sculpture of all the greats. It was here that I bought a few watercolors from some of the artist and marveled at the sights. A few of the sculptures were of lined along the courtyard area and were so detailed and beautiful.

Giotto- an Italian painter and architect from Florence in the late Middle Ages. He is generally considered the first in a line of great artists who contributed to the Italian Renaissance.
Donatello- a world-reknowned Italian sculpturist and of Ninja Turtle fame

 Francesco Petrarcha- Italian scholar and poet and one of the first known humanists.
Macchiavelli-was an Italian historian, politician, diplomat, philosopher, humanist and writer based in Florence during the Renaissance.  He was a founder of modern political science, and more specifically political ethics.






Gallileo Gallilei-was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution. . Galileo has been called the "father of modern observational astronomy", the "father of modern physics", the "father of science", and "the Father of Modern Science". There will be more about this adventurer coming up...We learned a really cool fact about him as we toured a Duomo, which I will talk about in the future.

I wish we could have gotten inside these two museums. Was kind of a let down. However, when comparing everything we did get to experience and see, this fact pales in comparison.