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Palazzo Rucellai Piazza de Rucellai, 1, Florence, 50125 |
Another historically important construction lies diagonally across from the palazzo: the splendid Loggia Rucellai which opens onto via della Vigna Nuova, commissioned by Giovanni Rucellai at the same time as the Palazzo.... more
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Santa Maria Maggiore Piazza Santa Maria Maggiore, Florence, 50123 |
The Basilica Santa Maria Maggiore was built on the location of a smaller church named Santa Maria. The last one already mentioned in 774. The new Basilica was designed by the architect (maestro) Fredo and the constructio... more
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Galleria del Costume Piazza Pitti 1, Firenze, 50125 |
The work Le tre età dell'uomo (The three ages of Man) has been object, in the course of history, to several attributions: Giovanni Bellini, Lorenzo Lotto etc., until its restoration in 1987, when the doubts about ... more
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Florence American Cemetery and Memorial West of Via Cassia, Florence, 50144 |
The site covers seventy acres and is duly kept in perfect order, with a variety of beautiful trees and bushes around immaculate lawns, on the west side of the Greve River. Between the two entrance buildings, a bridge lea... more
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Museo Stibbert Via F. Stibbert, 26, Florence, 50134 |
Half Scotsman, half Italian, Frederick Stibbert was nothing if not eccentric. A sometime artist, intrepid traveler, voracious accumulator, and even hero in Garibaldi's army, he inherited a vast fortune and this villa fro... more
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Palazzo Medici Riccardi Via Cavour 1, Firenze, 50129 |
The Medici Palace was a definite disappointment. It had a small garden, small courtyard, and small chapel. There was one beautiful room with gold and paintings everywhere, and there was a painting of the Madonna and Chil... more
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Casa Buonarroti Via Ghibellina, 70, Florence, 50122 |
Artemisia 's painting was one of the first in the room to be commissioned, and the painter had received an advance payment of some size as early as 1615. Michelangelo the Younger had a particular fondness for Artemisia, ... more
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Casa di Dante Via Santa Margherita, 1, Florence, 50122 |
I didn't go into Dante's house because of scepticism about famous houses. The Mozart house in Vienna was filled with shrieking school children and contained little to nothing of interest. Dante's house is interesting to ... more
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Cappella Rucellai Via della Spada, Florence, 50123 |
. Rappresenta uno dei piĆ¹ importanti capolavori dell'arte rinascimentale, attuazione dei nuovi canosni stilistici in pittura, al pari dei traguardi architettonici di Brunelleschi e scultorei di Donatello. La scena sacra... more
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Galleria Palatina e Appartamenti Reali Piazza Pitti 1, Firenze, 50125 |
Unlike most of the museums reorganised in recent times, the Palatine Gallery does not follow a chronological order nor schools of paintings, revealing instead the lavishness and personal taste of the inhabitants of the p... more
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