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Antonia Deleon '20, an Art History and Women's & Gender Studies double major, engages in a bit of travel while she studying abroad in Italy. The first photo captures her at the celebrated Victoria and Albert Museum in London, examining a sculpture by Rodin. This figure is related to his famous work, The Burghers of Calais, which many alums will have encountered at the Cantor Museum here in the Bay Area.

The second photograph shows her in front of the Fontana Maggiore in the city center of Perugia, Italy. The fountain, built in 1277-1278, was designed by the famous father-and-son team, Nicola and Giovanni Pisano, artists who will be familiar to all alums who took ARTH 12 (now ARTH 22).

She reports, "Italy is interesting because everywhere you go there's something to see, including in the tiny town I'm in. So far in Italy, Assisi has been my favorite because the history and the art is all contained in one town. You can see Saint Clare's home, a five-minute walk away is the church dedicated to her (including her tomb), and ten minutes away is San Damiano, where she spent her life and where most of her miracles were performed (not to mention where Saint Francis had the vision of Jesus speaking to him on the cross). I don't think anyone else on my art history field trip geeked out as hard as I did, given that I go to Santa Clara and am from San Francisco!"