As a landscape photographer, I have learned how to extract the essence of a larger landscape, often looking for the “image within the picture”. In the past I’ve photographed plenty of statues, but somehow never made the connection to landscape practice, instead always shooting the entire statue. On this trip, Nancy Rotenberg taught us to extract smaller parts of statues to stand for the whole. Soon, many of us became engrossed in shooting “body parts” on the many statues in the Piazza della Signoria. This image is a detail from Pio Fedi’s 1865 work, The Rape of Polyxena.