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January in Florence (Italy)

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Non-Profit, Low-Cost, Direct Study in Italy

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Intern Abroad HQ - Affordable Internships From Just 2 weeks!

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Study Coffee Making in Florence

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Study Abroad Italy with NECA!

The NECAFlorence Program provides a unique opportunity to study, ...

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Syracuse Academy | Study in Sicily

Intensive Italian Language and Culture Summer in Sicily

Syracuse Academy language and culture center is located in the he...

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Art History Abroad

Summer Courses in Italy (2-4-7 weeks)

AHA’s summer courses are for keen travelers, curious students, an...

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Centro Studi Mugello - TEFL International Tuscany

TESOL/TEFL Certification in Italy with Centro Studi Mugello

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Youth For Understanding (YFU)

Study Abroad in Italy

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Amazing, educational, and once-in-a-lifetime experience!

March 02, 2025by: Fiona Lui Martin - United StatesProgram: 6-week Gap Year Course in Italy | Art History Abroad
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Art History Abroad was an amazing, once-in-a-lifetime experience I’m so grateful to have had. In just six jam-packed weeks I traveled to Rome, Siena, Florence, Bologna, Castelfranco, and Venice with a group of like-minded gappers and tutors. Cultural activities included painting Venetian masks, witnessing glass-blowing on Murano island, cooking traditional Italian cuisine, and marbling paper. We explored the Colosseum, Roman Forum, Uffizi, Pompeii, Ravenna Mosaics, and Guggenheim. We studied the magnum opuses of Michelangelo, da Vinci, Raphael, Donatello, Bernini, and Botticelli, among countless others, in situ. We learned to recognize the tell-tale signs of Gothic art—gold leaf, pointed arches—as opposed to that of the High Renaissance—realist muscled figures in complicated compositions—which we in turn could differentiate from the chiaroscuro and dramatic motion of the Baroque. Perhaps most special was when we, still rubbing sleep dust from our eyes in the wee hours of morning before opening time, watched the sunrise over St. Peter’s basilica and took a guided tour of the expansive Vatican museums and fresco-filled Sistine Chapel.

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