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Andrys Basten | profile | all galleries >> ITALY Photos - Tuscany photos - 2006 (partial) >> Florence photos, #1-b - Michelangelo's DAVID, Ghiberti, Fra Angelico | tree view | thumbnails | slideshow |
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![]() Michelangelo's David, at Accademia |
![]() Michelangelo's David. Light on visitor's right hand mirrors David's left. |
![]() David was cut from a block discarded as useless. |
![]() Facing entry corridor, slingshot more visible. |
![]() Michelangelo's David, cooly appraising, is beautifully understated. |
![]() Michelangelo's David: amazingly life-like. |
![]() Zoom-in on previous image |
![]() The pocket-sized Elph s410 was at max zoom. |
![]() From the slingshot side |
![]() Preparing mind and body for the shot |
![]() Returned to Ghiberti's Doors. Story of Joseph, 3D-like perspective |
![]() Scenes from (top down) stories of Cain & Abel; Abraham; Joseph |
![]() The door knobs are usually heads. And, note the camel :-) |
![]() Moses and the tablets on Mt Sanai, with Joseph waiting halfway down |
![]() Moses and crowd below, taken the day before with dusk light on doors |
![]() David slays Goliath (front), leads army (middle), with Jerusalem in background |
![]() Joshua and Battle of Jericho. Ark of Covenant in front of Joshua on chariot. Trumpeters above. |
![]() Celebrating fall of Jericho. Distant figures in low-relief, from previous panel |
![]() I liked seeing how they looked out in the light. |
![]() Mary Ann, loving Fra Angelico's Museo San Marco |
![]() Can anyone from Florence identify the artist? It's on the label at San Marco. |
![]() Fra Angelico's Annunciation - at top of stairs-San Marco (nice garden too) |
![]() Closer up - Fra Angelico 'Annunciation' |
![]() Duomo and last views of Florence |
![]() This was on way back to our Ghiberti hotel |
![]() Tower from the other side, closer to hotel |
![]() Me, on Ponte Santa Trinita, avoiding Ponte Vecchio crowds |
![]() Can they tell I'm a tourist? :-) |
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