running

very touching sculpture, the little girl has jumped up from her chair, where she was reading to a doll. The chair is overturned, the doll and book are strewn at her feet and she is running toward the veiled image. A figure of a man watches from the grave next door.

Tuscany: Florence to Orvieto

June 6th 2008
next stop - Cradle of the Renaissance As every person who sees the art in Florence, we are amazed. We feel as if we know more about Michelangelo than we ever thought we would. We appreciate his talent more than we thought we would, and I write that at the risk of sounding ridiculous. But now that we are back in Krakow, we have had time to let all we have seen sink in. To asses the tale ... read more

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more

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