Today was spent in our classroom at the Rome Center getting ready for our trip to Florence tomorrow. Our 10:30 lecture was with Lisa who went over the famous names in Florentine art. We looked at slides of Ghiberti's Baptistery doors, Donatello's David, and the Michelangelo version. We discusses Florence's status as a wealthy city and how that played a role in the development of art in the city. We also learned that humanism played a role in the architecture and statuary of the city since the Renaissance Humanists were attempting to recreate what they were seeing in Rome.
After a break for lunch, we had class with Mary where we finished up our previous discussion about Cosimo de' Medici and began talking about Lauro Martines' book April Blood about the Pazzi Conspiracy to kill Lorenzo and Guiliano de' Medici. This book is full of Renaissance gore and is quite a page turner. We finished with some slides of artwork featuring the Medici. Afterwards we all rushed home to pack for our trip tomorrow and to get some sleep.
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