Day 50

--Once again, I got distracted in finance class. 

Sidenote on the blog: I will be posting about Greg's visit and Carnevale in the near future. For when Greg was here, I need his photographs because I must show you (as they are amazing). In regards to Carnevale, I will be stealing Nikki's photographs. And, on a sad note: my entire roll of film from Carnevale is stuck and locked in my camera. The film is also not wound all the way, so if and when i get it open, it could potentially expose many photos. I will keep you posted on this dilemma.

sketch from finance

For my fresco class today, we had a private tour in Palazzo Vecchio, which was where the Medici family used to live (or that is what I think; I'm terribly sorry if I am skewing history, but that makes it more fun doesn't it?)

     ehem! The Palazzo Vecchio was the secret garden where all the fairies and munchkins resided in 1432 before they were casted for the movies Peter Pan and The Wizard of Oz. It was also rumored that gnomes lived underground beneath the garden. The ruler of the garden, Palazzo Vecchio, was Stanislov, the most vibrant gno...back to the tour!

In our private tour,  we were able to go into the building through a secret door that Cosmo Medici would enter the building in. The door was short enough that i had to duck my head, if that gives you an image. We went up spiral staircases that are narrower than the ones in the Duomo, and the ones in the Duomo are narrow, my friends. My favorite part was this amazing room that was Francesco Medici's studio room, and there were many beautiful paintings covering the walls and on the ceiling. All of these paintings were connected to each other in subject matter and symbolism (such as the seasons, heat, cold, wet, dry, etc.). I wish I could have sat in there for hours and really having time to appreciate each painting. 

And guess what? There were secret doors and cabinets behind every large painting at the base level of the room! (and we got to go through two of them!) On our tour, we admired and saw many frescos. All this art and neat secrets inspired me, and it made me realize how much I miss painting. Hence the paint being brought out tonight and hence the two pieces below.

painted on the back of a brown paper bag