Firenze (Florence) Italy
Part of our 2015 culture, art and history visit to Italy
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| The legendary Ponte Vecchio, from downstream.. | Market in the Piazza - Florence seems to be always bustling | Adi di Samri - old fortified building, now a museum. |
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| The Duomo - Brunelleschi's famous Cathedral. | The west frontage of the Cathedral. | Our base - an apartment in this historic building. (Inset - the plaque on the wall). |
The Accademia
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The Accademia's most famous in habitant - Michelangelo's David |
Another view of David - luckily he's raised high so you can see over the crowds. | Acontius by Ulisse Cambi (1835). Acontius is writing a message on the apple he will throw to Cydippe. |
Uffizi Palace
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| What a ceiling! | Titian's legendary Venus d'Urbino, which so outraged Mark Twain. "I touch myself ..." | Piero della Francesca, the Duke and Duchess of Urbino, 1472-1475 |
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| Michelangelo, the Holy Family with the infant St. John, known as the "Doni Tondo", 1507 | Leonardo da Vinci, The Annunciation, c1472 | Botticelli, Madonna and Child with 6 Angels, 1487 - "The Madonna of the Pomegranite" |
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| Lapith fighting with a centaur (and Teresa photographing another statue) | Hermaphroditus, Roman, 1st century BC, | Hermaphroditus from the other side. |