While I have been enjoying the postings of the list for about six weeks now this is my first venture into posting. And this was prodded by a colleague who doesn't have e-mail. Hopefully someone can offer suggests for her and I can really get started as an active member at the same time. She is looking for a means of obtaining photographs for research purposes of decorative arts objects in the Bargello (Museo Nazionale, Florence.) Letters to the director were apparently routed to Il Soprintendente, Ministrero per i Beni Culturali, Sopprintendenza per i beni artistici (etc.) Florence... who writes that because of complicated beaurocratic problems relating to postal payments no photos are being sent out. Therefore this colleague is looking for suggestions for alternative photo sources or means of ordering same. She is in the process of identifying our museum's collection of decorative arts objects from the 14th to 16th centuries and knows that there is useful information there. Please reply to [log in to unmask] Thanks Dedra Walls Milwaukee Art Museum