Monday, December 6, 2010

December 1st

We had a late breakfast and window shopped for the morning before taking off for Milan. Here is Giambologna's Rape of the Sabines. We saw the original in the Accademia the night before. These in the loggia of the Piazza Mayore are all copies, extraordinary copies.





Neptune and friends.
 A cupid with fish by Donatello in the courtyard of the Palazzo Vecchio.
 A couple on their wedding day there posing in the courtyard.

 Giotto is here outside the Uffizzi Gallery.

Even the street with pothole cover glistening in the fresh rain is somehow beautiful here in this light.

This is the largest container of nutella I have ever seen; 5 kilograms!?#@ It's at a truckstop along the way to Milan.