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Away again in NYC for a few days, but before I go, top 5 from my trip to Italy:

1
Lorenzo Ghiberti's panels from the East doors of the Baptistry - I saw the reproduction the last time I was in Florence, but this time I saw the originals up close in the Opera del Duomo [which is an awesome museum - small, but the installation design was impeccable, and there appears to me more of a conservation effort here than at other museums I saw.]

2
A handful of awesome Bosch paintings in the Doge's Palace in Venice - how did I miss them last time?

3
The Medici chapel at S. Lorenzo recalibrated my scale for BIG art. Matthew-Barney-who?

4
And the chapel at Palazzo Medici-Riccardi.

5
And... the potato tortelli in truffle sauce at Villa Fiesole.