Naked guys and Leaning Towers!

Why does it seem that every old sculpture of a person shows them with no clothes on, especially the ones of famous warriors like Alexander the Great or Perseus? I mean, they are warriors, they go fight people, but why stark naked? Just yesterday I saw the sculpture by Michelangelo of Achilles holding his dead cousin but they were both completely naked. Isn't that a bit weird, holding your fallen comrade completely naked? I could understand if they were people who posed in front of an artist, but a warrior in action?  All of these sculptures I just talked about and more are in Florence where most of Michelangelo's work is.  After deciding that Florence would just be an expensive tourist town and we drove on to Pisa.

In Pisa we went to go see one of the most famous things in Italy, the leaning tower of Pisa! The tower , which is on a very alarming angle had about 1000 people trying to get the perfect picture. Most people were trying to get the picture to make it look like the person in the picture was pushing over or holding up the tower. We have also seen people holding the top of the Taj Mahal, squishing the Parthenon and holding Big Ben. Of course we were some of those people. It took many pictures trying to make my mom's and dad's hands line up to actually make the picture look half decent. After taking about even more pictures trying to get a good picture we said goodbye to PIsa and drove to Genoa, the birthplace of Columbus.