Spring is starting

Spend a couple of days in Florence, half in the library researching my stone deterioration topic and half wandering the beautiful but artificial city. I was struck by the agressive, juvenile nastiness of Florentine art. Every was a guy with a club busting somebody's head or raping some girl. Beautifully done, but nasty. All art was proclaiming, "I am going to fuck you up" but beautifully. it was in character with the narrow medieval streets and somber stone.

I have been working on another portrait of a fellow.