Another set of beautiful days in Italy.  I’ve been having a ball.  Today I went to a De Chirico / Max Ernst / Magritte / Balthus exhibit.  It was amazing seeing this early 20th Century art in context with all of the older work I have been seeing here in Italy, it means a lot more to me.  Though again I wasn’t allowed to take pictures while in the museum.  The museum was a palace for one of the rich Florentine Families finished 500 years ago.  I am blown away by that, I could not imagine someone having an art exhibit in our house 500 years from now. (continue reading…)

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Wow, the last few days have sped by incredibly fast.  I haven’t had as many pictures to post, since the galleries we visited over the past few days did not allow us to take pictures.  Last Saturday I was able to go to a Caravaggio show in Rome.  It was life altering, which is an experience I seem to be having an awful lot of lately.  The paintings were magnificent.  The details he put in the paintings were unbelievable, they are not done justice in a book or on a computer screen.  Sunday was a pretty laid back day.  I went to another Italian Sacrament Meeting and then Down to St. Peter’s Square to walk around a bit.  Monday we went to A few churches in Rome.  We saw some beautiful Mosaics from the Byzantine Era and some wonderful statues.  The crowning moment was going into St. Peter’s Basilica.  Nothing could have prepared me for the volume contained in that structure.  To say it is gargantuan would be an understatement.  The artwork in the Basilica was awesome too.  Bernini’s Canopy was epic, it truly captured the essence of the Baroque Era with it’s undulating columns and Statuary.  One the way our I took a short tour of the catacombs and saw the burial place of Peter the Apostle. (continue reading…)