Museum Time!

It was raining again today and I was tempted to spend the day in again. But I decided that I can not waste another day here, 3 months is going to come and go before I know it.

I went on a museum hunt and found one, I kid you not, around the block from our apartment. The Borgello National Museum. I walk by it every day to and from school. Way to be observant, Claire. And it was cheap, only 2 Euro to get in. SCORE.

The Borgello is a three story mansion of a building with an open courtyard. It was absolutely gorgeous, even without the art in it. It used to be a Medici family possession and the walls are covered in coats of arms from all their close personal friends. Or their not so personal friends. Whatever.
I saw some awesome awesome art, but I will give you the two highlights.

#1:: This museum has one of the biggest collections of Della Robbia pieces in Italy. There are at lesat 50 different pieces in here. At least. Whole rooms have their walls just covered with them, and these are not small rooms. Check this monstrosity out.
((I thought you'd enjoy that, Mom.))

#2:: Donatello's David. In the flesh. He's been in hiding for a while to get cleaned up but it was totally worth it. The bronze was glowing. It was... surreal. I know I've seen great works of art before, but when you're 12, you don't get it like you do when you're 20. I've studied this sculpture for several classes and seen pictures in text books, and there it was. Crazy. Talk about your humbling experience.You can probably tell that these last two pics weren't taken by me. We could only photograph in the courtyard. So here are some of my pics from outside.
Well, I'm off to get some homework done.
TTFN