Day 3: Milan Duomo

spinning on the bulls balls
Amanda on the Duomo
Me and Ellie.

Today Amanda and I headed out in the rain and cold to go see the Duomo of Milan and the Bull who grants you good luck if you spin on his balls 3x. there are no longer any balls, but instead deep holes from where people spun and wore it away. it was pretty cold! we went into the Duomo and then went on top for the view, unfortunately it was overcast, but the building itself and architecture was amazing. The work that went into that building is incredible. they say they have been working on it since 1400's and its still not complete. the interior was very catholic. there were a lot of stain glass and pictures of Jesus and his disciples, it was beautiful, but the whole time period of the art inst my style, it isn't very real looking to me. but i guess during this time they "had lost the art of the human body" which is interesting because I never really new what that meant, but i am thinking it meant they drew and made their art very 2 dimensional. I don't know, my theory. i loved the windows and the the architecture. like i said before amazing! it made me wonder how many people died making the spires and the statues that are EVERYwhere in and on top of the building!