Here are some images from the last two days in Siena.  The image on the yellow paper is the only one that is not Siena and is from the Pamphilj Gallery in Rome where there are two early Caravaggios.  

The Duomo in Siena is amazing.  Similar to the one in Florence but a little smaller.  The white marble was striped occasionally with a black stone and it was higly ornate but not in a baroque like way (there was very little gold).  It is a more embellished classical style with a tiny injection of gothic.   The floor was completely inlaid marble with patterns and scenes I could barely begin to draw.  The two interior sketches are from the Duomo.  The watercolor is from next to the Duomo where in the 1300s (i think) an extension was begun but never finished due to a lack of funds and the plague.  What was built of that eventually got infilled with other buildings.  It was an interesting space.  What was supposed to be the inside of the cathedral addition is now a courtyard like space, and what was going to be the outside is now a hodgepodge of other buildings.  All the rest of the sketches are from the large main piazza, Piazza del Campo.  It is shaped like a giant half shell and acts sort of like and ampitheater.  People sit aroud on it all day and move with the sun.  The giant bell tower on one of the buildings is like an enormous sundial.   

I had a cappuccino out there one morning and even though it is still a little chilly, the sun is intensly hot.  It gives me a new understanding of Camus's The Stranger.