Art in Italy as Seen by a Tourist Watching Tourists
Theoretically, I stand in the gallery that houses one of the most iconic paintings of all time, Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus. The signs outside this particular room in the Uffizi said that this was the Botticelli exhibit. However, the only thing I see is a roiling mass of tourists. I have discovered being short is a slight issue in these sorts of crowds. With enough meek mumbles of, “Scusi, permesso, scusi,” I worked my way towards the eye of the camera flash storm. From my new vantage point, I caught a momentary full-view of the masterpiece.
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