After this we went back to the hotel and met up with another group of people on the trip and we just started wandering around with the goal of staying awake

After wandering around until it got to at least 6:30 PM, me and my roomate split off to go get gelato, and then headed back for the night. I forgot to take a photo of the gelato, i’ll get more later. But that’s the gist of day 1!

Hotel breakfast

Breakfast Room

Organ!!!!

Class group

Dinner

People i got dinner with

Piazza Della Repubblica

Today was a lot more relaxed, our second activity was getting our projects approved by the professors.

the back of a piece, so you can see the wax and almost negative of the piece

These are from the Scarpelli Mosaici workshop, which we got to tour and ask some of the masters about how this craft is done, every one of the works is made by hand carved stone, this is an insanely buitiful medium that i'm very glad we learned about early on so we can spot it as we visit the rest of the musuems

Me and some friends then wandered around looking for somewhere to grab lunch and do some shopping, we also briefly visited the Leanardo Interactive Musuem, but we just looked around the gift shop, I want to go back, they had cool clocks

I did not take that many photos of other works in this place, most of it was medieval artwork which isn't that useful to my project, but I grabbed photos of things I thought were cool

I made pasta :D

We then went to walk around a bit, stopped in a church, and visited a ceramics fair that was going on and I got a turtle

Then we had our second activity of the day, which was the paper marbeling wokshop

Shopkeeper teaching us how to do it

If it isnt ovbious, i really liked the courtyards here.

we then moved to the christmas market in front of the Basilica of Santa Croce.

Good snacks (the pastry is called a chimney cake, and it's filled with nutella), good birds, and cool lamps

The Tomb of Galileo.

The Tomb of Michelangelo

The Santa Croce is a very massive and very beautiful church, it also became an honor to be buried there so there were a LOT of graves around the place.

Still Santa Croce

ok! we then moved to a incredibly active church, the Basilica of the Satissima Annunziata, or as we kept calling it, Mary's Church, because all of the works are focused around the virgin mary

I lit a candle with a friend

Dinner Time!

(photo from a diffrient day, they took us to this alleyway to explain how the addresses work in Florence)

Good Wine

Good Pasta

Good Potatos

Good Gelato

Good night

I finished it :) [For now]

Today we had a really long break, so me and my friends decided to go to the leather markets, where I got a belt, a wallet, a book, and a keychain thing

Lunch time

the resturant we went to for lunch taken from the building we went to afterwards

Pizza!

a tiny model of the Palazzo Vecchio

Next we went to the Palazzo Vecchio, which used to be the government building of Florence, this is one of the few medieval buildings left in Florence, which means that a lot of weird additions have been done to the building over time, so it is fery confusing to walk around it, but overall a very beautiful space.

This is the Burning Easter egg, apparently it is a tradition, and not a revelations thing.

"Make Haste, Slowly"

Capricorn

This green room is much prettier in person

A heiphenated family crest

I've been trying to research into our family history to see if we have a family crest, and I don't think that there is enough knowledge to say for certain, but there are some very similar names with crests.

they have a series of old painting dipicting the various squares around italy, a lot of which look very similar to how they look today

This one depicts an ancient form of soccer that we (as a class) started calling chaos soccer. Because of how violent it was getting they tried to ban ex-convicts from playing it, however they could not find enough people who were not ex-convicts to play.

Globe Room!

This room was decorated during a brief alliance with france, so it's covered in the french Fleur de Lis.

Dinner time! (i went to the same resturant i went to for lunch with diffrient people)

i was taking a photo of the Statue's plaque and Oliver photobombed it beautifully

I'm not sure as there wasn't a plaque and the guard wasn't aware, but i think this is a table made by the stone painters.

The Birth of Venus

this is one of the first paintings that Leonardo da Vinci worked on, he worked on the left most angel, as he was just a student at the time

This is one of his later works, one of the first he did solo.

This is one of the few remaining panel works by Micelangelo, I really like the amount of movement present in the piece.

Weird airship looking thing in a place we went to to get hot chocolate in. (hot chocolate is thick here)

Laundry

Dinner

Drinks + train station