An original letter from Leonardo da Vinci has come down to us, we try to give here a translation. It speaks of wine, the wine he himself produced in Fiesole:"From Milan to Zanobi Boni, my farm manager. 9
December 1515. The last four jars were not as expected and I...
We very often talk about Brunelleschi's
spectacular Dome - an unrivaled architectural enterprise- the largest masonry
dome ever built to date. Sometimes, however, we forget the other architectural
masterpiece that sits right next to it: Giotto's
Bell Tower!
It was July 18, 1334 when Giotto began to lay the...
Built in 1911 by the architect
Giovanni Michelazzi (1879 - 1920), it is considered one of the most significant
Italian Art Nouveau buildings, certainly the most interesting in Florence.
Michelazzi was a very refined architect, even if unfortunately he
designed very few works, committing suicide in 1920 at the age...
In the largest public park in Florence, Le Cascine, unexpectedly
you meet a monument dedicated to an Indian prince! The young Indian prince
Rajaram Chuttraputti of Kolhapur, returning from England where he had visited
the queen, suddenly died in Florence on the 30th November 1870, at the age of
21....
Here we see a mural with a strong effect
and large dimensions, fresh paint and very current, dated 2020: the Covid-19
represented as a scary slobbering monster, in his hand a can of poison to
spread disease and death.
You read at the base of the wall: pandemic
underway! face...
Until recently, the park of Villa
Fabbricotti was dominated by a wonderful example of a Lebanon Cedar, right
at the top of the hill. The trunk 8 meters wide, almost 25 meters high and 200
years old. For its beauty and monumentality it was chosen by the District
Council of...
Fantastic
this work, certainly dating back to the lockdown in March and unfortunately already
in an advanced stage of deterioration. Protagonist Dante Alighieri,
acknowledged father of Italian literature and language, author of the “Divine
Comedy”, dressed as always in red and crowned with laurel. Arrested as caught
without a mask...
These are certainly difficult times to travel and fully enjoy the beauty of
a city like Florence. Especially because much of what it has to offer is
enclosed within those very precious jewelry boxes that are its museums and
churches.
If you prefer to avoid as much as possible to...
This
striking and apocalyptic picture explicity depicts vanity, lust for money and
war. Vices and horrors afflicting humanity, represented as divinities, with a
halo, on a sort of altar, the names preceded by an S. indicating Sancta /
Sanctum (saint).
A
triptych of confused symbologies, but of no questionable meaning....
This impressive figure of an archer baby-girl
riding a giant spider, a very detailed and impacting image, leads us in a
revisited mythology, in a fantasy world, perhaps referring to some comic or
saga we are not able to identify. Who will be hit by her arrow? Via dei Maccheroni, Florence.
