It was invaluable to be able to work on site. Art (especially architecture) looks very different in person than it does in a book. In a book, you are not able to get a sense of the scale, of the textures, of how you would move within the space. In San Lorenzo Maggiore, it is difficult [...]
Correction: Today is not Mother’s Day. It is Women’s Day. As a surprise after dinner, the brothers baked Akara and Laura a special lemon-pineapple cake. Then, we all went into town for beers.
Michal and Fra Agnello were up until nearly 4 am last night working on the model! We have decided to try to reconstruct two different stages of the monastery (around 1300 and 1500). We spent the morning cutting and pasting bits of all our models into a master file, grouping the elements, and getting everything [...]
