Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Santa Maria Novella





On this day last year, here is what I was taking in. Oh, I can't tell you how my heart aches for that. To relive every moment over...okay, not every one...there were a few moments I'd rather forget like the one involving changing and the window but we won't go there!
Mostly, just the other worldness of it all was the best part. The newness of every little thing, the food, the people, the every last detail that was unfamiliar.
This is Santa Maria Novella. I realize the pics aren't the best but I was taking shots with no flash out of respect. This is a working church in that it is open to the public and people are members here. How special to sit and worship where people have been worshiping for hundreds of years. Think of the traffic of people that have gone in and out of those doors.
This church did not have the same racy past as the Duomo with it's assassination attempts and the like, it was quiet and sweet and I couldn't get over the black and white which apparently was a cutting edge design at the time. The man who designed the interior was young and wanted to create a special effect by doing it this way; he wanted to create distance in your eye by putting the contrasting colors. I could whip out the book and explain it but I'm not in the mood.
It was just breathtaking, breathtaking is all I can say.

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