ITALY – (numbers in parentheses correspond to pages in DK Eyewitness Travel Guide 2011
available in D.A. library)
Recommended reading
Non-fiction-highly readable
Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling by Ross King
Brunelleschi’s Dome by Ross King
Historical fiction
Birth of Venus (Florence) – Sarah Dunant
Vivaldi’s Virgins (Venice)-Barbara Quick
Films – great scenery
Summertime (Venice) – Katherine Hepburn & R. Brazzi
Room w. a View (Florence)
Tea w. Mussolini (Florence & San Gimignano)
Roman Holiday
Three Coins in a Fountain
Venice in order of choice
1. Peggy Guggenheim Museum (104-105)-modern art collection
2. Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Friar (aka Church of the Frari) (98-99)
Assumption & Pesaro Madonna by Titian (98) Bellini Altarpiece (99)
3. Vaporetto sights (88-89,682)
4. Accademia (106-7) paintings from Venetian school; Giorgione, 106 Veronese 107
5. S. Giorgio Maggiore (120-121) by Palladio; see Tintoretto’s Last Supper
6. Piazza San Marco (108), Basilica di San Marco (110), Palazzo Ducale (114)
7. Ca’ D’Oro (94)
Florence
1. Uffizi (286-289)
2. Museo dell’Opera del Duomo (279)
All major works moved inside
Michelangelo Pieta (another one!)
Donatello – Mary Magdalene, St. John, choir loft
Exhib.on bldg: Il Duomo
Baptistry Doors-Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise
3. Pitti Palace – across the Arno-has the original of Raphael painting that is over
Mrs. Kelly’s desk – Madonna della Sedia (302)
4. Church of Sta. Maria del Carmine - Brancacci chapel – especially Expulsion of
Adam & Eve by Masaccio & Tribute Money (298-299)
5. Santa Maria Novella (296)-Dominican –Trinity by Masaccio & Green Cloister
6. Near Accademia (275) Michelangelo’s David
a. Medici-Riccardi Palace-Adoration of Magi by Benozzo Gozzoli
b. Church of San Lorenzo (294)-Michelangelo designed the Tombs in Sacrista
Nuova (295); also Bibliotecca San Lorenzo (aka Bibliotecca Laurenziana) &
staircase designed by Michelangelo
c. Piazza della Signoria – copy of David, Rape of Sabine Women (291)
7. Gates of Paradise – on Baptistry Doors – orig. in Duomo Museum (282)
8. Bargello (283)
a. Donatello’s David (283)
b. Brunelleschi & Ghiberti Sacrifice of Isaac (2 panels)
Siena (340)
1. Il Duomo (338,342)
2. Museo dell’Opera del Duomo (338,343)
3. Piazza del Campo & Palazzo Publico (340) –frescoes (340) Lorenzetti-Allegory of
Good and Bad Government
Rome
Obvious: Trevi Fountain, Forum
San Pietro in Vincoli - Michelangelo’s Moses – FABULOUS! (412)
Roman architecture (380-381)
Vatican
1. St. Peter’s (419) Pieta
2. Sistine Chapel-bring binoculars
a. ceiling (424)
b. Last Judgment (426)
c. Perugino (wall) Christ Giving Keys to St. Peter (426)
3. Raphael Rooms(427)
4. Bernini – Piazza & Scola Reggia and Baldacchino in St. Peter’s (418)
Museo e Galleria Borghese (439) - fabulous Bernini Statues
Santa Maria della Vittoria (412)- Bernini chapel & *Statue of St Theresa in Ecstasy*
Piazza Navona – Bernini’s Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (399)
Pantheon (405)