Santa Croce

We made a trip to Santa Croce church in my World History class. Dante's tomb (but not his body) resides there as well as Galileo's tomb. Beyond that it's in the neighborhood and made a great little trip. Here are some pictures from inside the church and the courtyard. Enjoy!

As irreverent as this is, I couldn't stop picturing the little flattened mosquitoes on my bedroom wall when I saw these. Little flat mosquito people.
This was my favorite tomb, the statue was beautiful, too bad the picture is a little blurry.
Again... a statue of a man in a sheet with his arms around two naked boys. The Italians have a tihng about naked boys...



Is the type big enough for you!? All it's missing are full pages of drawings and then it's the world's oldest children's book. That's my kinda book!

Madonna boobies...
Tiled vault in the garden.

I still think this guy looks like Edgar Allan Poe. Good on the sculptor for sticking to accuracy, poor emmaciated dead man.

You know what's missing on modern grave stones? Geese. Especially possessed ANGRY geese.
Goin' to heaven. Good for you!

I only WISH I had snakes for hair. Too bad he couldn't comb them over to cover his bald spot. That would be the worst and the best fashion faux pas EVER.

Just hangin' with a lion. Doo-dadooo...
This is how high the Arno flooded in the 16th century.

I named this statue "Googlie-Eyes" just cuz. I mean really, who looks like that!? No one. Sorry Googlie-Eyes, you're on your own.
Doors. But they're pretty, so I'm going to post them and there's nothing you can do to stop me. So there. You know you like them too.