Uffizi again

THE UFFIZI GALLERY IS PRETTY BIG, and we felt that we had not quite done it justice on our earlier visit. In the line by 9.00, we first looked at the statutes in the long corridor, many Roman of around 2nd century CE, often copies of Greek statues some 400 -500 years earlier.




Umm, no photos here, sadly.







Then we revisited Italian, French, Flemish, and Spanish paintings of the 13th to 18th centuries.

After a picnic lunch in the little courtyard -- farewell wild boar sausages! -- we visited the Galileo Museum ... not so much a history of science as a collection of scientific instruments and teaching aids.

These are different ways of working out where you are at night.







A map of the world as they knew it with Norway and Europe at the bottom.




Don was keen on this box of facts and tables stored on little rulers!




Models to show various scientific principles.




This is a collection of glassware used in laboratories (thanks Venice).










Apples and bananas for tea.

- Posted on our last night