We have advance tickets for the Uffizi Museum and The Academia. If you don’t have these advanced tickets, you’ll stand in line for hours. It matters little which month you’re here or the time of day. There is always a long line. With the special tickets, it’s usually only a 15 to 20 minute wait. The special tickets are 4 Euro. So here are some selected photos from the Uffizi.
Above, Aristotle and Socrates plus the “only painting” that Michelangelo finished. Well that can’t be true; he finished the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, didn’t he?
See the panel on the right; there is a blank on the bottom row. “Must be waiting for me to die!
See painting to the left; when you try to take a picture, there’s always someone in the way. Usually Chinese.
Then we went to the Academia to see the 16 foot David, mankind’s greatest piece of art. If you’re going to see it – and everyone should try – first read Michelangelo's biography, The Agony and The Ecstasy. When we were there 7 years ago photographs weren’t allowed but I took a couple anyway – until the guard warned me not to. But I got an image good enough to be hanging in our bedroom in Frisco. But now, photographs are allowed so here are mine. Best guess is that David is sizing up his opponent. This statue spent over 300 years outdoors before this space was built. Not really showing his age. In 1991 a deranged visitor attacked the statue and damaged his right foot. Now this Plexiglas surrounds all the art in this museum.
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