During the fifteenth century, a tall, multi-ton block of marble lay abandoned for decades in a courtyard at the Florence Cathedral. It has since become one of the world’s most celebrated pieces of stone, and I got to photograph it in intimate detail.
Read MoreSeeing Leonardo’s Last Supper in the Flesh: A Promise Fulfilled
In September 2019, I fulfilled my teenage promise to one day travel to Italy to see Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper, a mural that the quintessential Renaissance man painted from 1494 to 1498 in the refectory of the Dominican convent-church Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan. Through the photo captions, I tell my tale of flying across the Atlantic to finally view this world-renowned masterpiece during the 500th anniversary of da Vinci’s death in 1519.
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