Florence Photos 2
Posted by Jackie , 10 November 2010 1:09 PM
Florence again...
This is my new favorite statue, the Rape of the Sabine Woman. Not the greatest subject, I know, but I love the fluidity of the bodies and the facial expressions and pretty much everything about it. The really cool thing about this statue is that this is the original; still in the Piazza Della Signoria where it was originally placed:
This is the crest of the Medici family, which was placed all over town when they came to power in the mid-16th century. Fun fact of the post: all of the balls were originally red, but (for some reason I can't remember) the king of France allowed the family to change the top ball to blue with a fleur-de-lis. How nice of him:
Lunch. Unbelievable gnocchi with four cheese sauce. It had sooooo much cheese, QED it was delicious. Did I mention the cheese?
In another piazza, there are two obelisks that mark the edges of what used to be the fields for chicken races. They were supported by turtles:
Piazza del Republica. Designed when it was believed that Florence would be the capital of the new Italian republic in the early 1800s. It actually was the capital for a short period of time, before Rome stole the show. Anyways, the piazza was quite imposing:
