When I lived in Florence, Italy in 1971, we used to "tag on" to various art and museum tours as they disgorged from the buses.  The tours had definite agendas and short timeframes to cover them.  I remember going into the Uffizi Gallery in Florence which houses an enormous number of artworks in a former Medici Palace, including Botticelli's Venus Rising from the Sea (also affectionately known as Venus on the Half-Shell  http://tinyurl.com/84z7flp).  The tour group was moved at a trot from one room to another, desperately trying to see everything at once.  The ceilings of the Palace had been painted by a famous medieval artist (can't remember which one) and were very impressive.  I remember the group stopping before a famous painting as the guide gave us a quick description and, as we were hurried forward, one of the group asking in a very loud voice - "who painted these magnificent ceilings"?  without hesitation, the tour guide said "the ceilings aren't important, the next painting we are about to see.....  ."  Sums up the group art tour experience very nicely.


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