Hello lovelies, 

and here is part 2 of the Italian diaries with Day 4. It was already a picture heavy post so I decided to do Day 5+6 in a separate post as especially day 5 would be picture heavy again with us going to the Uffizi. 

Day 4

During the night a big mosquito bit me. Not once, not twice, but three times on my face. It was not itchy but it was red and a bit swollen. Luckily it was nothing a bit of makeup couldn't fix. In the morning we found the devil's fly perched on my side of the headboard and killed it. It was full with my delicious blood. Yuck.  

But that did not dampen my mood as we were visiting Palazzo Pitti that day. The outer structure is like a fortified castle, it doesn't look inviting at all. But once you enter, you are in a completely different world.

We still had our Florence card that we used for the entry. The regular price would have been 16€ per person. We were just in time for a tour through the royal apartments. 

 

 

 

The apartments were stunning. It's exactly how I would love my flat to look like too. I also thought it was very interesting that all rooms had a different colour scheme. The Queen's bedroom was blue and the King's bedroom was yellow, the salon was red but the queen's salon was also yellow. 

We quickly went through the rest of the other museums as we had seen it already and were famished and had our minds full with food and not the heart to look at another painting. 

One of my three favourite saints: Saint Agat(h)a, alongside with Saint Appolinia, depicted with a tooth and Saint Lucia, depicted with her eyes. lol

 

We crossed ponte vecchio to get to the other side in search for a restaurant. Then we randomly chose one that was medium priced and looked nice and we were so lucky, because the food was amazing. It was the best food from our whole trip. 

 That was my primi! It was so much and so good. I just love seafood. 

I can't seem to recall the name of the dessert. 

Afterwards we rolled into the Museo di Palazzo Vecchio. Last time we did not enter because there were some works being done. This time they still had some works but as we had the Florence card we decided to enter anyway. And it was stunning! But very confusing paths and doors. 

You may not have realized this but I am a big fan of beautiful ceilings.   

And that...was not the last museum. We had a quick cannoli snack and then went to the Palazzo Medici Riccardi where we finally saw one of Hias's favourite paintings.

I'm pretty sure you know exactly why he is in love with the time? It's fancy and colourful Italian Renaissance clothing. 

 The museum herself was not that big, at least you were not allowed to go into a lot of room. 

But I'm glad we could see the most beautiful room in the house. Just look at the fresco.

I'm not sure why the wand was made out of glass because my clumsy butt would drop it immediately after holding it for a second but the work is elaborate and so pretty. I actually want one. 
 

The building also had a few beautiful ceilings:

 But that was really the last museum we went to. We just grabbed some snacks for dinner at the local supermarket and went back to our hotel. Our feet were dead but our minds were full and that was a great day

I wore my Leur Getter cat dress again but with lighter colours instead of black. It was the only day during all of my Italy stay that I did not get a compliment. haha. I was already used to that (albeit I never get compliments in Vienna).

 

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Hello lovelies,

it's been a while since the meet-up but I still want to tell you about it because it was such a great afternoon. I was made aware that there will be a free art exhibition at Palais Liechtenstein in the heart of Vienna and that made my super excited. Why? Because I have a dress that has a print of a fresco located at Palais Liechtenstein and I always wanted to go but the Palais was usually too expensive. 

B. from the lolita club also saw the news and she decided to host a meet up for us. 

The day of the meet-up was sunny, but not too warm for a spring day.  

We met in the little park/Vorhof just in front of the entrance and waited. Others came and we broke away to snap a few pictures when a lady in her 50s asked what we are doing here dressed so weirdly. I explained that we were a fashion club and had an outing, which was definitely not the explanation she had expected but she trotted off, probably to tell her girlfriends who were standing around gawking at us. 

Our group was almost complete and we entered the Palais. Even the entrance was beautiful with frescos and gilded stucco. We stored our bags and parasols in the cloak room and then headed to the first room. 

 

The theme of the exhibition was "Noble Begierden. Eine Geschichte des europäischen Kunstmarkts" also called "dealing in splendour" in English and it was about the history of the European art market. 

Here is the description of the homepage: 

The art market, with all its players, institutions and mechanisms, has always been a source of fascination. Next spring, the Liechtenstein Garden Palace will host a groundbreaking international exhibition focusing on the underlying dynamics of the art market for the first time, such as marketplaces, sales strategies and pricing. In this exhibition, the Collections of the Prince of Liechtenstein shed light on the European art trade, from classical antiquity and the Italian city-states of the Renaissance to the Golden Age of the Netherlands, sensational presentations and transatlantic sales in the nineteenth century. 

This allows visitors to experience how many phenomena of the art market are essentially centuries old. As trend-setting developments often originated in cities and regions, separate rooms in the special exhibition are dedicated to these centres of innovation, illustrating the progress and novel practices that took place there. This highlights not only the lasting impact of art dealing on the dissemination of works, but also on the development of the arts and art history. - PalaisLiechtenstein.com

 

To be honest, there was not a lot of information about this specific theme but that was alright as I was more interested in the pictures anyway. Or maybe I didn't see the texts. The exhibition included paintings from Rembrandt, Brueghel, Monet and Klimt and a few others. Also, look at these frescos! They were absolutely stunning. How much would I need to pay an artist to paint my ceiling?

My favourite part of the museum was the library. I wish I were Belle from Beauty and the Beast and just own a library and sit in a comfy chair and read all day. Too bad I only made videos and no pictures, but you can watch the reel at the end of the post!

 

 

  

Upstairs were more modern pictures which I am not a fan of so I just quickly scanned them and went to the next room. 

But I liked this Venus picture, it reminds me of the pastel paintings by Fragonard or Jean-Étienne Liotard from the 18th century. This pictures is from 1863 and was painted by Alexandre Cabanel. 

In the central hall, the Hercules room, everybody met up again and we made pictures and the group picture. 

 

As we were ready to leave, we made our way to the eastern staircase and there is was. The fresco I had been looking for. It was a joy seeing it live for the first time. Although we had a hard time fitting me and my dress and the fresco into one picture we shot a few nice pictures. 

 

 

But we were successful!

The rest of the group continued on to a cafe but Hias and I left to go home. Our mission was done and we just wanted to put our legs up and rest a bit. 

And here is the reel from youtube to watch where you can see more of the paintings, the lolitas and the beautiful library.

 

And the next reel is about the dress and the fresco: 

 

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