This past Friday, my class and I went to Venice! It was an amazing experience. I've wanted to go to Venice for as long as I can remember. It was even more beautiful than I expected. I'm from Long Island and I work on a ferry, so I love the water and felt very happy/at home in Venice. I found the ferry buses to be very cool and I thought it was interesting how quickly they loaded and unloaded the boat at each stop, and the lack of lines used to tie up the boat because they were trying to keep on schedule. I also enjoyed the slow pace of Venice. It was nice to have a long boat ride and to just enjoy the scenery.
I noticed that many buildings were decorated the same way and that there was a lot of beautiful, interesting architecture to feast on. I loved the gondolas and the bridges. Everywhere you looked just seemed so picturesque.
The first museum Palazzo Mocenigo, was of many designer dresses that celebrities have worn. Some dresses were really very beautiful. There was a dress Jessica Alba wore that I was stunned by. It was gorgeous, having so many different textures, patterns, and a high-low hem. It is sad to me because the beauty of this dress will never be fully captured by a camera. There was also a dress that Madonna wore to a red carpet even that was stunning. It had red and white butterflies made out of beads on a blue silk gown. I don't know if i agree with the color scheme, but I thought the detail was gorgeous. Many dresses from the museum stuck out at me, but what really intrigued me was how tiny the dresses were. I'm a tall girl, so sometimes I feel like a giant, but I don't know if every dress was fit to the mannequins or if everyone in Hollywood actually is a size 0, but it was very unsettling to see how small the dresses and waist sizes were. This also brings up the point of dresses being so small/short from centuries ago. I was talking to some of my classmates and we were all surprised by how petite people were years ago and believe it has to do at least partially with being malnourished. My family is very tall, my brother is 6'4'', my dad is 6'3'', and his brothers are 6'5'' and 6'7'', so I guess I feel it's strange how differently sized people can be and that there shouldn't be a "social norm" for people to follow because it's ridiculous and impossible. I think that's what makes the world and people interesting and everyone is attracted to people of all different shapes and sizes, therefore everyone should feel good about the way they look and not beat themselves up about not looking like the Hollywood stars who are the opposite of the norm and have to look a certain way because it's their job.
The second museum we visited was called Autunno a Palazzo Fortuny. It consisted of three floors, which got simpler from each floor to the next. The first floor was by far my favorite. It was so eclectic, there was clothing, paintings, ladders, rugs, jewelry, an immensely detailed, huge doll house, and numerous patterned cloths that covered the windows. It was really cool, everything looked like it was just thrown in, but it all went together so well, that it was fascinating to me to look at each new item I laid my eyes on. My favorite pieces were the peacock dress, a painting entitled Medusa s.d. Tempera on canvas, and another painting that was all black with a gold chandler. This painting was sitting in a shadow, so it was in the dark, but the museums had a single spot light on the chandler that made it seem like it was lite up.
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