I drew this sketch of the books in the libary in the castle of Poppi. The quantity of books amazed me and the age of some of the books were older than the United States. When they first started writing books they would use pressed cloth for paper and that is why we are fortunate enough to still have their writing with us today. What really stood out to me though was the pictures and use of gold in the books. You could not go to a store and buy colored pencils to draw with so instead you had to make the colors out of minerals and plants. Can you imagine grinding stones to get a certain color to use to draw a picture with? And then many of the pictures were encased in gold.  I find it amazing that people were able to use gold for such little things like decoration for a picture. I realize not everyone was this wealthy but today I could not see billionaires putting gold leafing in books. The design and work effort people put into making books is astonishing. It is sad that we lose all of that art today when we simply download a book off the internet.

(I apologize for this image being sideways, I do not know how to get it to turn.)

This sketch was drawn inside the Medici Chapel in the tomb rooms. I was captivated by Michelangelo’s copy of the Pantheon. It was like a model for the pantheon, it was so similar. The contrasts he used while sculpting the figures on the tombs was very thoughtful. I had a very hard time depicting which figure was to be dawn and while was dusk. The question was brought up did Michelangelo mean to leave some of the faces almost unfinished or did he not finish them. Personally I think his work was intentional. I feel as though crafting these sculptures were so important to him that he would not have left them undone. Thus I truly believe everything we saw was complete.