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- Florence

After breakfast, we started walking towards the Museo Horne, an art museum near Santa Croce. The museum has a number of interesting works, including a Giotto.

Ticket
Ticket for the Museo Horne
Statue of Hermes with the Gorgon head
Bust of a baby
The death of the Gorgon
A bust of a baby
A female bust
A femail bust
Two busts of women
Portrait of Christ
Portrait of Christ
Two heads of Christ
Image of Christ from the cross
Giotto portrait
Christ taken from the cross
A portrait by Giotto
Portrait
A portrait
Tryptich
"Saints Caterina d' Alessandria, Margherita and Benedetto" by Pietro Lorenzetti
Virgin with the Child and Pieta
"Virgin with the Child and Pieta (diptych)" by Simone Martini

We then had lunch at Trattoria Il Bargello, Borgo dei Greci 37/r; it wasn't anything to write home about. Then we shopped a bit - Aviva bought more angels on wood panels (I wonder how many of those fit on the head of a pin anyway).

Then we spent two and a half hours walking around Santa Croce, which is one of the most important places in Florence. As we were finishing the interior we asked someone a question - it turned out it was an older docent who spent at least 20 minutes telling us a bunch of things about the history of some of the burials at Santa Croce. For example, the small black round decoration in the middle of the Galileo monument is decorated with three concentric circles with spheres on them - they represent the three moons of Jupiter that Galileo found, called the Medici moons because they were his patron. His bones were moved to the current monument in the 1800s. The docent also showed us where Ghiberti (who won the contest to design the bapistry doors over Brunileschi) and Vasari are buried.

Ticket front
Ticket back
The ticket for Santa Croce
Altar under restoration
View to the entrance
Restoration of the altar - this won't complete til 2010
A view to the entrance
Cross
Dante statue
The main cross is also being restored
There;s a statue of Dante outside Santa Croce
Poetry
Machiavelli's tomb
A statue to the god of poetry, looks like lady libery, no?
Machiavelli's tomb
A painting on the wall
Ghiberti tomb
Note the use of complimentary colors in the blouse
Ghiberti's tomb (he did the bapistry doors)
Michelangelo's tomb
Michelangelo's tomb
The main altar
The main altar
A chapel altar
An altar in a chapel
Monument to Gallileo
Monument to Gallileo
Monument to a musician
Monument to a musician
A painted arch
A painted arch - almost all surfaces are colored
Vasari's tomb
Vasari is buried here
A vault
A vault
A couple of vaults

We stopped at Badia Fiorentina, an old church with a Fillipo Lippi painting - we saw the painting but couldn't see the church as they only have visiting hours from 3 - 6 PM on Mondays.

A stuffed boar in a window
I always seem to find stuffed animals in Italy

Back to the room to freshen up and pick a dinner spot. We walked over to Trattoria Casa di Dante gia Pennelo at Via D. Alighieri 4r. Dinner was really good.

We went back to the room and it was really noisy outside - some kind of street concert until 11 PM - I think we'll move to the back of the hotel tomorrow.

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