{"id":175,"date":"2009-08-24T20:59:44","date_gmt":"2009-08-25T00:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.saradavidringlerart.com\/?p=175"},"modified":"2023-09-01T09:07:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-01T13:07:04","slug":"the-courtyard-at-san-lorenzo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.saradavidringlerart.com\/?p=175","title":{"rendered":"The courtyard at San Lorenzo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_176\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-176\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-176\" title=\"In the courtyard at 12 noon\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.saradavidringlerart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/DSC_0121-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"This was a wonderful moment to capture a shadow.\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.saradavidringlerart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/DSC_0121-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.saradavidringlerart.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/DSC_0121-769x1024.jpg 769w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-176\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This was a wonderful moment to capture a shadow.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This was truly a gift&#8230;.one of those perfect moments.\u00a0 The first gift of course was to have my daughter visit me in Florence.\u00a0 the second gift was to live in an apartment directly overlooking\u00a0 San Lorenzo Cathedral.\u00a0 And the third gift was to be in the courtyard outside the Michelangelo Library and have the sun cast the shadow of my daughter on the stone wall. The photograph I took had strong contrast which became even more accentuated in the etching I created from it.\u00a0 This particular image was shot at about 12 noon and I went back several times later in the week to find the sun.\u00a0 I did get a few other images I like, but this is my favorite.<\/p>\n<p>I loved the courtyard and the how the stairway Michelangelo designed leads up to the library.\u00a0 It is a wonderful space of quiet, and yet directly outside is the bustle and congestion of the San Lorenzo market.\u00a0 That is precisely what I love about Florence, it is the contrasts and the mystery behind the ancient walls and doorways.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This was truly a gift&#8230;.one of those perfect moments.\u00a0 The first gift of course was to have my daughter visit me in Florence.\u00a0 the second gift was to live in an apartment directly overlooking\u00a0 San Lorenzo Cathedral.\u00a0 And the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.saradavidringlerart.com\/?p=175\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.saradavidringlerart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.saradavidringlerart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.saradavidringlerart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.saradavidringlerart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.saradavidringlerart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.saradavidringlerart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":444,"href":"https:\/\/blog.saradavidringlerart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions\/444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.saradavidringlerart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.saradavidringlerart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.saradavidringlerart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}