Many people flock to Vivoli for gelato and they always have as far back as my first trip to Florence in 1979.
Dupre was a 19th century sculptor whose work I studied extensively as a graduate student of art history.
One of things I enjoy seeing as I walk around this historic city is the way builders over the centuries have gone to the trouble of saving and REVEALING details from previous older buildings. The history is there, speaking to us. You just have to listen.
Look at the work that went in to saving and showing this ancient decorative detail.
In other places, the classic has been modernized, but it still lives on with us in our daily lives. An example is this neon colored version of Botticelli’s Venus, which hangs a dozen yards away in the Uffizi.
You know that I am always distracted to look at modern design and the way it is threaded into the urban fabric here. These lamps are beautiful!
Or, if you like, you can pay a visit to the museum of serial killers in Florence. I must admit, I’ve never been! Never will go either.
I’m taking these pictures of rather esoteric details, passersby’s will often stop to look at what I’m photographing. They probably think I’m nuts. And I probably am.
An odd collection of sculptures in this unused shop window caught my eye.
Here’s another example of a really old building covered in modern stucco, but large portions of the earlier structure shine thru.
And finally, an oldie but a goodie: the House of Michelangelo on Via Ghibellina. I walk by it almost daily going to and from the center.
But wait, one last detail of some pretty marble framing average windows.
get back, lauretta! 