This is a tour of making art in Florence, Italy while I was on sabbatical from Cape Cod Community College in the fall of 2008. The slides show some of the inspiration for my prints and books which I created using Monotype and photo etching.

1. Sounds of Florence

2. V Florence, Italy 6 Via Dei Conte

3. View from the kitchen doors, San Lorenzo

4. Duomo and Campanile Santa Maria del Fiore

5. Climbing inside the Dome

6. The orange rooftops ………..

7. Looking out towards the Palazzo Vecchio and Uffizi Gallery

8. Ghiberti’s Gates of Paradise

9. The Cloisters of S. Lorenzo

10. The Cloisters, Medici Chapel and the Laurentian Library

14. Opening the door to the printmaking studio

29. The Brancacci Chapel

30. St. Peter Healing the sick with his shadow

31. Adam and Eve Masaccio Brancacci Chapel

42. Exhibition at SRISA

48. David and the Graces

51. Reflections on the Arno

53. Old wall with peeling paint

55. A wall of color

57. The ochre wall

58. Doors and arches

59. Ponte Vecchio

60. David at the Piazza Michelangelo

61. View from Piazza Michelangelo

62. September light in Florence

63. Rome for the weekend

65. Tuscany

67. Picking Olives in Umbria

68. Cinqueterre, Vernazza

71. Sounds of Florence