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SEVEN ITALIAN ARTISTS’ WONDERS “A LA CARTE”


A wonder may be defined as an emotion that arouses awe, astonishment, surprise, admiration and marvel. A wonder may be a monumental human creation regarded with awe, astonishment, surprise, admiration and marvel. T&T – Tour and Travel has chosen Seven Italian Artists’ Wonders and created this unique and exclusive tour “à la carte”!

DAY 1. Arrival with accommodations in 4* hotel in ROME’s historic center. Afternoon guided tour of the Vatican Museum which includes Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel and Raffaello’s School of Athens. Michelangelo was very reluctant to accept the project because he knew it was an impossible task and one that would require him to forgo his true love, sculpting. Eventually, Pope Julius wore him out and Michelangelo accepted. The School of Athens is painted in the room where the Pope kept his philosophical literature, which explains why the affresco represents many philosophers, such as Plato, Aristotle and Euclid, Socrates, Pythagoras and Diogenes. To honour people of his time Raffaello gave the figures in his affrescos the faces of his friends. Euclid looks like Bramante, Plato looks like Leonardo da Vinci, Heraclitus from Efesos is in fact Michelangelo. Raffaello himself stands in the right corner with white clothes.  Dinner at your pleasure.


DAY 2. Morning guided tour to admire Saint Peter’s Piazza and the Basilica which is the most prominent building inside the Vatican City, built on the ruins of Old Saint Peter's Basilica. Michelangelo's interpretation of the Pietà is quite different than those previously created by other artist. Michelangelo decided to create a youthful, serene and celestial Virgin Mary instead of a broken-hearted and somewhat older woman. The figures are indeed out of proportion, owing to the difficulty of depicting a fully-grown man cradled full-length in a woman's lap. 
Bernini’s throne of Saint Peter completes and crowns his forty years of long work in the decoration of Saint Peter’s Basilica. The throne which symbolizes the power of the Pope creates an optical and artistic unity with the canopy erected above the tomb of Saint Peter. Lunch on your own. Afternoon at leisure for additional sightseeingad shopping. Dinner at your pleausure.

DAY 3. Morning guided tour of the Galleria Borghese Museum to admire Canova’s marble wonder of “delicately rendered nude flesh” that honors Paolina Bonaparte – Napoleon’s Sister. The sublime art of Canova is celebrated in the universally acclaimed Paolina Bonaparte as Venere Vincitrice, the Roman goddess of beauty and love. Bernini created a wonder for Cardinal Scipione Borghese depicting the chaste nymph Daphne being turned into a laurel tree, pursued in vain by Apollo god of light. This life-size marble sculpture depicts Apollo struck with the golden arrow of love, who pleads with Daphne to fulfill his desire. Daphne, repulsed by the idea, begins to flee. As Daphne runs, Apollo is more captivated by her beauty. Apollo grows impatient and soon, sped by Cupid, gains on her. With slower speed and failing strength, Daphne cries out to her father just as Apollo captures her. A second later, Daphne's skin turns to bark, her hair to leaves, her arms to branches, her feet to roots and her face to a treetop. Daphne is protected and transformed into a laurel tree.
Lunch on your own. Afternoon at leisure for additional sightseeing and shopping. Dinner at your pleasure.

DAY 4. Arrival with accommodations in 4* hotel in FLORENCE’s historic center. Afternoon guided tour of Piazza San Giovanni and the Academy Museum to admire Michelangelo’s majestic David. A sculpture is a three-dimensional dynamic work of art that Michelangelo felt was a superior art form to painting. Michelangelo's David is based on the artistic discipline of disegno, which is built on knowledge of the male human form. Under this discipline, sculpture is considered to be the finest form of art because it mimics divine creation. Because Michelangelo adhered to the concepts of disegno, he worked under the premise that the image of David was already in the block of stone he was working on -- in much the same way as the human soul is thought to be found within the physical body. The theme of Michelangelo’s Prisoners, unfinished sculptures is that Michelangelo could not free the human image that was captured within the blocks of marble that he was sculpturing. Michelangelo believed he was "freeing" the spirit from the stone and therefore the name, Prisoners.
Dinner at your pleaure.
 

DAY 5. Morning guided tour of the Uffizi Gallery. Botticelli’s Birth of Venus and Spring/Primavera, which is its direct continuation, was launched as an idea by Lorenzo the Magnificent.  PRIMAVERA represents the Garden of  Venus. In Classical myth, Venus is the goddess of love and beauty. The goddess is literally center stage, and the activity revolves around her. On her right, there is a trio of figures. This group is identified as Zephyrus, Chloris, and Flora. Zephirus who is the god of the wind, grasps the fleeing nymph Chloris. As a result, Chloris is transformed into Flora, the goddess of Spring and flowers. Flora is the embodiment of abundant nature, and her dress is covered with the floral symbols of her role. To the left of Venus, we see another group, which consists of the Graces and the god Mercury. The Graces dance together, celebrating Spring, while Mercury banishes the clouds from the garden. Finally, near the top of the work, hovering above the head of Venus, is the winged Cupid, aiming an arrow of love at an unsuspecting Grace.
BIRTH of VENUS, The classical goddess Venus emerges from the water on an enormous shell that serves as a platform. blown towards shore by the Zephyrs, symbols of spiritual passions. She stands demurely in the center of the painting, modestly covering her nude body with elegant hands and masses of golden hair. She is joined by one of the Horae, goddesses of the seasons, who hands her a flowered cloak. The effect is distinctly pagan, considering it was made at a time and place when most artworks depicted Roman Catholic themes. the Birth of Venus represents the moment when the goddess was born. According to Classical mythology, Venus emerged, fully grown, from the sea. And while Botticelli took his inspiration from this part of the myth, the artist also added his own embellishments.
Lunch and afternoon at your pleasure.

DAY 6. Arrival with accommodations in 4* hotel in MILAN’s historic center. Afternoon escorted visit and tour of Saint Mary of the Graces Church to admire the wonder of Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper. The scene portrays the moment in which Jesus tells his disciples that one of them is about to betray him. Leonardo's version was famous immediately because he had chosen a very unusual way to portray the scene. The “usual” Last Supper involved Jesus blessing the bread and wine - a serene scene with a sulking Judas depicted in a corner, away from the rest of the disciples. Instead, the Dominican Order after waiting impatiently 2 years for its completion, found themselves with the "violent" version of all the disciples screaming and yelling.
Dinner at your pleasure
 

DAY 7. Morning guided tour of the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana to admire the wonder of Caravaggio’s Basket/Canestro of Fruit. The Basket of Fruit is the MOST famous Italian still-life masterpiece, because “Nature’s truth does not tolerate correction.”

 

 

 
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