too many floweries
November 10th 2008 03:35
Pont Vecchio was lined on both sides with jewelry shops. I was totally captivated by the jewelries and couldn't walk on. Imagine necklaces, pendants, rings, studs, pins embedded with intricate tiny pieces of stones of multi colors, bracelets with yellow and white gold wrung into a fine curve that dazzles with the rounded twists and turns, little pieces of pale amethyst with numerous facets, pins of tiny gold leaves or flowers with special finish that looked both so soft and solid, small carved gemstone roses with curved edge petals... they seem to have something in common, which I guess I can only say "florentine", with that vintage inclination and ravish feminine beauties.
In the museum shops they sell jewelries that are direct imitations of items in the renaissance paintings, with prints of the painting displayed aside. It was kind of cool because the dresses and accessories in those paintings are sometimes I think the most beautiful parts of the paintings, with a rich exquisiteness that almost speak more than the figures and faces of the people. One thing that struck me about the dresses? The transparent veils that are light as insect wings, soft and weightless almost like thin air yet with the creases and the transparent color...
The flowers are in the frescoes too. In the ceiling frescoes of the courtyard of Palazzo Vecchio I saw flower and plant patterns with the most delicate and free flows, rich and full and all over, flora heaven?...it's florence...
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