Jeremy Gimpel Travel Log #4 - Florence

[Music] so it's one of my last days in Italy and we're in Florence and we take the kids to the da Vinci Museum and they're playing with all of his engineering and they're having a great time and we're going around all around Florence and we're seeing all of the art and with the all the tour guide who's not a very Godly Man is saying this is Donatello's art and he was the master Michelangelo learned under Donatello and this is the David and he was so proud of the David I'm like you know I live in the mountains of King David and then he said this is a picture of a prophet in Israel this is a picture of Jesus and this here is a sculpture of Hercules that's battling some other Greek god this is the art of the Renaissance and then he revealed to me the heart of the Italian people and that's when I really understood he said you know these primitive superstitious people ancient people they used to believe in these gods in the Catholic church because of the confusion of Greek mythology and because of the confusion of their gods they've made everyone throw out the true God of Israel