Tuesday, May 03, 2016

A Quick Trip to Italy, Miscellanea II

Florence: Museo archeologico nazionale di Firenze

Ancient putti:


Egyptian mummy; alas, I had difficulty getting proper focus through the glass:


View from a window:


Florence: San Lorenzo

A couple of details from inside:


Another view of the tablet for Bl. Nicholas Steno:


Pisa

We didn't stop there, but on the way to Pisa we passed through Pistoia, the City of Plants; it is one of the world's major exporters of decorative plants. It was rather surreal; everywhere you looked all the plants were lined up in rows, tiny little bushes marching in parallel ranks with great big trees.


The Miracles Square:


Details on the Cathedral:


Some more of the Tower:


The Pisan version of the Capitoline Wolf. The primary one is in Rome, of course. I never learned if there was any story behind a copy hanging around on a pillar in the Plaza of Miracles.



to be continued