The day after we saw the pope, a bunch of us headed way up to the Galleria Bourghese, to which you have to make reservations in order to get it. It was well worth it though. It's a small museum, but it had a very good number of Caravaggios and Berninis, which made all the other sculptures and paintings fairly uninteresting in comparison. They were unbelievable.
I saw these. They loked much better in real life, obvzie. Bernini blows my mind.
Yesterday we had planned to go to the bone crypt (where there are chandeliers made from human bones, you know) but that plan fell through for various reasons. Instead I went back to the vatican to sketch some sculptures. An Australian couple came up to me and bought the sketch i did! That was pretty exciting.
Along the river there are these faint drawings of animals that are pretty huge, and rumor has it a RISD grad did them recently. I guess she wasn't allowed to add anything to the walls, but she got permission to make these by cleaning the dirt really thouroughly in some places. They're really beautiful.
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amazing.
Hi Ida!!
I'm so glad that I ran into your incredibly cool mom the other day so that I get to see these pictures and read your juicy updates. I feel like I just got an insider's taste of Italy from reading your posts. I love the "cleanings" (what do you call the drawings where the artist removed dirt to make the drawing??). I read an article somewhere about a company in England that uses that technique for environmentally-friendly advertisements on public bridges and other normally filthy areas. I loved your photos from the plane... and your ravings about (and photos of) the art... and the microscopic photo of the Pope... and your studio!! Can't wait to see what comes out of it.
:)
Blast from the past Sarah Fiarman
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