Art in Italy - Summer 2007

An immersion experience and field study for four weeks earning 6 credits. Students will be painting, drawing, traveling, and experiencing the sights, sounds and smells of Italy.

Thursday, May 17, 2007





We started the day off driving to Assisi, where we saw some Giottos which was interesting and the tomb of St. Francis- I also saw my first poppy field in the distance too...very beautiful. I learned that "Happy Hippos" are my new favorite Italian candy, its like a waiver with white and milk chocolate inside in the shape on a hippo. We found some more to buy at the pizzeria we stopped at for lunch on the way to Perguia, the capital of Umbria. In Umbria, we went to the National Gallery there and saw a great Piero della Fransesco. We then went to a church from the 10th century and saw a Carravaggio and a Rafael. The picture up is the Carravagio we saw. It was awesome because one of the priests there spoke English, so he took us around the church and showed us the church they discovered underneath the church already existing from the 5th century. The other picture is inside the church (even though its rotated the wrong way, so turn your heads to the left to view) and the last is a a view from La Romita of the city of Terni I took tonight.

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