Saturday, 27 September 2008

Florence


More photos under the cut...

Santa Maria del Fiore by nightView of the Arno



The old city wall


Gatepost near Piazzale Michelangelo
Palazzo Strozzi






Giambologna's equest. statue of Cosimo I (1594) in Piazza della Signoria
Palazzo Vecchio
Copy of Michelangelo's David (1504/1910)
Copy of Donatello's Judith and Holofernes (1460/1988)
Cellini's Perseus with the Head of Medusa (1554)
Giambologna's Rape of the Sabine Women (1582)
Fubsy animals

Graffiti - Saracini 1772
Graffiti - Grigiri 1936
Inside the Palazzo Vecchio



View from the Ponte Vecchio

Torre d'Arnolfo at sunset
The Fisher Boy by Vincenzo Gemito (1876) in the Bargello
Ernest Owl Starts a School
In the Bargello


Santa Maria Novella
Il Porcellino by Pietro Tacca (1612) in the Mercato Nuovo
Ponte Vecchio at night

Uffizi courtyard
Ponte Vecchio as seen from the top of the Uffizi

Boboli Gardens at Palazzo Pitti

Little bronze Bastet in the Boboli Gardens (it's about two feet high)
Tortoises are all over the place, I think they stand for wisdom



Courtyard of Palazzo Medici-Riccardi. (Where this originally stood)

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