Comments on Gold

These were really cool when I saw them in Firenze (Florence). Highly recommended.

Course, seeing the doors themselves and the cupola and tower was way more fun.

These were cool when I saw them at the Met.

I would love to see them in Florence one day.

I was kind of miffed when I learned the panels I was looking at in Florence were replicas, but the gelato was real, and that's what counts. Saddly here the panels will be real, but the available gelato will be fake. I'd much rather have it the other way around.

I am so excited to see them, and not just because we spent most of my art history class today discussing them in the context of Renaissance sculpture.

They look beautiful, and happily, it's more affordable to broke-ass students to see them here instead of in Florence.

Way more affordable to see them here.

But, surprisingly, Florence is way cheaper than either Rome or Venice.

Limone gelato ... dang, flashback.

Sorry.

Dang that stuff's good ...

I'm so happy to see these here in Seattle. I remember studying them in art history and being blown away by the third panel down. I look forward to seeing it up close again.

So let's be all snobby and comment on how they are great and all, but they are far greater when you are in Florence.

But it's true. However the interior of the Baptistry shouldn't be overlooked. It is stunning with its amazing mosaic.

And of course the doors are replicas. But the Museo is on the other side of the Duomo...not far to walk to see the real things, plus it has all that cool iconography.

I went to this show at least 8 or 9 times when it was at the met. I'm definitely jealous that Seattle gets to have them now...

As an historical note, my mum was 21 years old and in Florence with friends during that big flood. They'd been driving around Europe in a beat up old Jag for months and collapsed at a little hotel in exhaustion, and they didn't even know there WAS a flood. They kept ordering room service for days and couldn't figure out why the housekeeper was in such a bad mood when she brought them their meals. Turns out the whole first floor of the hotel was flooded.

I went to this show at least 8 or 9 times when it was at the met. I'm definitely jealous that Seattle gets to have them now...

I salivated over the refrigerator magnets when it was. at the Met.