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1 day ago · Florence ( / ˈflɒrəns / FLORR-ənss; Italian: Firenze [fiˈrɛntse] ⓘ) [a] is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany. It is also the most populated city in Tuscany, with 360,930 inhabitants in 2023, and 984,991 in its metropolitan area. [4]
- History of Florence
For much of the Quaternary Age, the Florence-Prato-Pistoia...
- Dario Nardella
Dario Nardella (born 20 November 1975) is an Italian...
- Florence (Disambiguation)
Florence, a character in The Magic Roundabout, a 1960s–70s...
- Florence Cathedral
Florence Cathedral ( Italian: Duomo di Firenze ), formally...
- Arno Flooded
The 1966 flood of the Arno (Italian: Alluvione di Firenze...
- Tuscany
Tuscany (/ ˈ t ʌ s k ə n i / TUSK-ə-nee, Italian: Toscana,...
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Haute couture fashion models walk the runway during New York...
- Ponte Vecchio
The Ponte Vecchio (Italian pronunciation: [ˈponte ˈvɛkkjo];...
- Palazzo Pitti
Early, tinted 20th-century photograph of the Palazzo Pitti,...
- History of Florence
1 day ago · Florence Cathedral ( Italian: Duomo di Firenze ), formally the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Flower (Italian: Cattedrale di Santa Maria del Fiore [katteˈdraːle di ˈsanta maˈriːa del ˈfjoːre] ), is the cathedral of Florence, Italy. It was begun in 1296 in the Gothic style to a design of Arnolfo di Cambio and was structurally completed by ...
5 days ago · Leonardo da Vinci, the Renaissance genius, revolutionized art and science with his masterpieces like the Mona Lisa while pioneering advancements in anatomy, engineering, and invention.
- Ludwig Heinrich Heydenreich
- Leonardo da Vinci was an artist and engineer who is best known for his paintings, notably the Mona Lisa (c. 1503–19) and the Last Supper (1495–98)....
- Leonardo da Vinci’s total output in painting is really rather small; there are less than 20 surviving paintings that can be definitely attributed t...
- Leonardo da Vinci was described as having a gracious but reserved personality and an elegant bearing. He was known to be fastidious in personal car...
- Leonardo da Vinci’s parents were unmarried at the time of his birth near a small village named Vinci in Tuscany. His father, Ser Piero, was a Flore...
- When Leonardo was about 15, his father, who enjoyed a high reputation in the Florentine community, apprenticed him to artist Andrea del Verrocchio....
1 day ago · In Florence, the Renaissance style was introduced with a revolutionary but incomplete monument by Leone Battista Alberti. Some of the earliest buildings showing Renaissance characteristics are Filippo Brunelleschi's church of San Lorenzo and the Pazzi Chapel.
3 days ago · Michelangelo’s early sculpture, such as the Pietà (1499; St. Peter’s, Vatican City) and the David (1501–04; Accademia, Florence), reveals a breathtaking technical ability in concert with a disposition to bend rules of anatomy and proportion in the service of greater expressive power.
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1 day ago · The Medici traded in all of the major cities in Europe, and one of the most famous masterpieces of Northern Renaissance art, The Portinari Altarpiece, by Hugo van der Goes (c. 1476; Uffizi, Florence), was commissioned by their agent, Tommaso Portinari.
3 days ago · Florence Foster Jenkins is a 2016 biographical film featuring an all-star cast including Meryl Streep, Hugh Grant, Simon Helberg, Rebecca Ferguson, Nina Arianda, and more. The film tells the story of Florence Foster Jenkins, a New York heiress known for her generosity and poor singing.
