charismatic megafauna since 1985

Florence, day 2.5 (since I don't feel like writing it up again)

• Tess: so what did you today?
• me: oh yeah, I should write a blog about it
• me: let's see
• the Uffizi gallery was my first stop
• it's basically a walk-through of Renaissance art
• lots of beautiful paintings
• boticelli, michelanelo, rafael, etc.
• Tess: nice
• me: it's one of the places I had an audio tour for, so that was nice
• Tess: all the ninja turtles?
• me: I don't think there were any dontaello sculptures
• but I saw a bunch of those at the next museum
• I've actually been thinking about the ninja turtles since I got here
• it took me 2 whole days to figure out that rafael was the turtle I was forgetting
• Tess: haha
• me: since this museum was the first place that had art from him
• me: then I went to the Bargello
• which had a whole room of Donatellos
• me: including david and a reproduction with gilt that used to be on it
• then the Santa Croce Church, with more art
• (this is what I get for recycling my photocopied guide pages, I can't even remember what I saw)
• I tried to go to the Science Museum, but it closed at 1
• so I went to the museum of natural history, which had this weird parallel exhibit about art in Second Life (a virtual world)
• made more strange by the parallel with the ancient artifacts from cultures across the regular world