Colin -- Above the heads of all the tourists, joining Palazzo Vecchio with the Uffizi Gallery with Palazzo Pitti is the Vasari Corridor. It's a closed passageway that weaves it's way among the rooftops and upper stories of the area, even crossing the river above the Ponte Vecchio, like the secret entrance to Hogsmeade from Hogwarts. And while it wasn't all of my Harry Potter fantasies in one, the whole "real life" part of it more than makes up.
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| down below the plebs grind through their day |
The Corridor is closed to most visitors, but Helen the superprofessor came through with a private tour. Well done Helen. So we saw the part of the corridor that the Uffizi uses to display its incredible collection of self-portraits from artists that extend from the Renaissance until the 20th century. Literally there were hundreds of paintings lining both sides of the wall, with a handful of marble busts in between.
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| my favorite portrait, I forget the artist |
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| Meanwhile, back at SACI... |
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| an ongoing project I just started |
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I'm going on a field trip to Mantua on Sunday, I'll see you all then.
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