The next day we drove to Vinci, a tiny village in Tuscany about 30 minutes from Firenze and the place where Leonardo da Vinci was born. walking through this little village you could really imagine how it must have looked back in the day. There was a little museum with all kinds of replica’s of Leonardo’s inventions, really cool!
After visiting the museum we drove back to Firenze where we would spend the night and spend the next day exploring the city. We didn’t get to go to any of the museums because there simply wasn’t enough time but we did climb the Duomo for some amazing views of the city.
In the afternoon we started our drive back to Rome where we would arrive just in time for rush hour, yay. Some navigating and very brave driving by my amazing husband was required to get us safely back to the rental company to return our car.
We spend our last day exploring the Vatican museum and visiting Saint Peters Cathedral. The Vatican museum in particular was a very overwhelming experience. There’s just so much art and I’m not just talking about the paintings and the frescoes. Every inch of the ceilings, floors and walls is covered in artwork. You have to go there with the idea of seeing something in particular otherwise you just get overwhelmed. We saw the Sistine Chapel, naturally but for me one of the highlights was seeing Raphaels La Scuola d’Atene (The School of Athens). Having taken philosophy in school as well as history in the arts and culture this piece was very meaningful to me and seeing it in person was just amazing.
Saint Peters Cathedral never fails to impress either, especially the beams of light coming in from the windows. You can imagine why people might start believing in God when entering this church.
So that was our trip to Italy, the next day we would fly back to Montreal with a lot of amazing new memories and a whole lot of pictures.
I’ve been back for a couple of weeks now and you’re probably wondering what I’ve been doing art wise, since these last couple of weeks I’ve only been blogging about my trip. Well I’ll give you a quick update:
I’ve finished the second piece in the ‘Journey’ series, its a piece on New York and it’s called ‘the Big Apple’. I’ve also finished my second ever commission piece, a second piece on Mont Tremblant called ‘the Four Seasons’. Currently I’m working on a large piece on Montreal and the first piece of the boroughs project s almost finished as well. Next I’ll be working mainly on the boroughs project because I’ve got some catching up to do. But I’ll probably do some things on the side as well. My trip to Italy has been very inspiring so something along those lines will probably come around soon as well. I will keep you all posted on all that, now I have to get back to my studio to apply another layer of gel.
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