MORE ABOUT WHERE YOU COME FROM….

 I must admit that I’ve become deeply addicted to Youtube, there’s no google search I’m ever interested in doing that doesn’t have a very good result in Youtube videos too.

Therefore this time, again I dedicate to you another videos post that gives a (hopefully) clear picture of where we – occidental people and culture come from, rather than picking out videos of Rome with its ancient Roman’s empire, I give you here a little example of where most of the artists and their masterpieces come from…….Florence, in Tuscany at the time of the De Medici family kingdom.

Tuscany is where the marble quarries, named after the Carrara village that made its marble famous worldwide, there’s a cute story that goes with it that’s related to Michelangelo, who when asked how he could carve out of a square block of marble such beautiful statues like his David, he simply answered that he could see the David inside the block of marble and all he had to do was to carve away all the marble David was surrounded by to let him free.

Just to give a very little example of the importance and width of arts from Italy, simply look at the percentage of Italian displays at the MET in NYC or even here at the Santa Barbara museum of art.

watch the video below of a wonderful walk inside the Uffizi

 Then – of course – Tuscany is famous – besides the Uffizi for its great wines, such as the Chianti, Brunello di Montalcino or the (less famous) San Gimignano, that marry Tuscan delicacies like boar, hare or especially prepared calf all traditionally served with the almost mandatory polenta and mushrooms on the side.

Mmmmhhh just thinking to this food I get hungry, one very important thing to know is that when in Tuscany it’s standard to sit at the table for lunch at 1 pm and eat until it’s almost 4 pm, then – of curse – dinner doesn’t start before it’s 8:30/9 pm – in simple words teenagers often go to bed after 11pm with some red wine in their bellies (no laws in Italy about drinking underage….what’s the age??).

Given that I just put here Youtubes both in English and Italian; I put no links with this post, you can google search the wines I mentioned or the name of the museum from the Youtubes.