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  • The Via de Calzaioli, rooftops and housing in early evening of city of Florence seen from Giotto's Bell Tower (campanile). Florence (Firenze) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with 367,569 inhabitants (1,500,000 in the metropolitan area). The city lies on the River Arno and is known for its history and its importance in the Middle Ages and in the Renaissance, especially for its art and architecture. A centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of the time, Florence has been called the Athens of the Middle Ages.
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  • Piazza Repubblica, rooftops and housing of city of Florence seen from Giotto's Bell Tower (campanile). Florence (Firenze) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with 367,569 inhabitants (1,500,000 in the metropolitan area). The city lies on the River Arno and is known for its history and its importance in the Middle Ages and in the Renaissance, especially for its art and architecture. A centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of the time, Florence has been called the Athens of the Middle Ages.
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  • The commercial and shopping street Via de Calzaioli plus rooftops and housing seen in early evening of city of Florence seen from Giotto's Bell Tower (campanile). In the background is the fortress palace called the Palazzo Vecchio. Florence (Firenze) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with 367,569 inhabitants (1,500,000 in the metropolitan area). The city lies on the River Arno and is known for its history and its importance in the Middle Ages and in the Renaissance, especially for its art and architecture. A centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of the time, Florence has been called the Athens of the Middle Ages.
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  • Tired and disappointed tourists and a pretend Egyptian pharaoh busker stand awaiting custom in Florence's Piazza degli Uffizi. In the darker covered galleries and streets around Florence's Uffizi galleries, the two young visitors sit looking exhausted and disillusioned, also possibly overwhelmed by the amount of culture and art in this renaissance city. The Uffizi Gallery is one of the oldest and most famous art museums of the Western world. It is housed in the Palazzo degli Uffizi, a palazzo in Florence, Italy.
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  • Tourists gaze upwards to the Baptistry of San Giovanni beneath Florence's Santa Maria del Fiore (Duomo) Cathedral. ..The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore is the cathedral church (Duomo) of Florence, Italy, begun in 1296 in the Gothic style to the design of Arnolfo di Cambio and completed structurally in 1436 with the dome engineered by Filippo Brunelleschi.
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  • Behind the viewer, tourists gaze upwards to the Baptistry of San Giovanni beneath Florence's Santa Maria del Fiore (Duomo) Cathedral. Hundreds of worldwide visitors tour the Piazza San Giovanni to see the Duomo and Giotto's Belltower. The dramatic Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore is the cathedral church (Duomo) of Florence, Italy, begun in 1296 in the Gothic style to the design of Arnolfo di Cambio and completed structurally in 1436 with the dome engineered by Filippo Brunelleschi.
    florence_italy66-22-10-2010.jpg
  • The reflections of renaissance statues of Hercules and David are seen reflected in builder's van parked adjecent to the Piazza della Signoria in Florence's Piazza degli Uffizi. A 16th century portrait of a medieval nobleman or official rises above the vehicle and a yellow compressor is seen behind. Top left is the Uffizi art gallery that houses many national treasures but this is a scene of an urban dystopia where construction forever interferes with the cultural idyll that visitors from around the world come to see. The white marble sculpture Hercules and Cacus is to the right of the entrance of the Palazzo Vecchio in the Piazza della Signoria, Florence, Italy. The Hercules and Cacus is a work by the Florentine artist Baccio Bandinelli (1525-1534) and the David is Michelangelo's replica, now also in the Uffizi.
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  • Italian lovers cuddle on the central span of Florence's Ponte Vecchio..The Ponte Vecchio ("Old Bridge") is a Medieval bridge over the Arno River, in Florence, Italy, noted for still having shops built along it, as was once common. Butchers initially occupied the shops; the present tenants are jewellers, art dealers and souvenir sellers. It has been described as Europe's oldest wholly-stone, closed-spandrel segmental arch bridge.
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  • Among medieval statues, a guitarist and street busker perform for passing tourists in Florence's Piazza degli Uffizi. Dressed in white to echo the medieval figures of city officials that stand in porticos of the main Uffizi building, a man will hug any visitor who wishes to have their photo taken alongside, for the price of a few Euros. Meanwhile, to his right, the musician plays classical songs on his acoustic instrument where its sound travels around this street corner, his notes rebounding from the solid stone walls and pillars.
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  • A reproduction of the painting called 'Portrait of Francesco I de' Medici ' which was painted by Agnolo de Cosimo Bronzino in 1551, now adorns a construction hoarding screen, with plastic blue piping in a Florence side street, the original hanging in the Uffizi. Born in Florence, he was the son of Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and Eleonora di Toledo, and served as regent for his father starting in 1564. He went on to become grand Duke of Tuscany and marry his Venetian mistress, Bianca Cappello, after aptly disposing of her husband, a Florentine bureaucrat. Francesco and Bianca died on the same day. Although the original death certificates mention malaria, it has been widely speculated that the couple was poisoned.
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  • A young Italian woman sits on a ledge outside the Piazza Strozzi in central Renaissance city of Florence. Above her are giant posters advertising the art exhibition by the celebrated painter Agnolo de Cosimo Bronzino. Agnolo de Cosimo Bronzino's painting of the Medici Eleanora of Toledo and son Giovanni C1545. Eleonora di Toledo (1522 - 1562), the daughter of Don Pedro Álvarez de Toledo, the Spanish viceroy of Naples. Eleonora was a patron of the new Jesuit order, and her private chapel in the Palazzo Vecchio  was decorated by Bronzino, who had originally arrived in Florence to provide festive decor for her wedding. She died, with her sons Giovanni and Garzia, in 1562, when she was only forty; all three of them were struck down by malaria while travelling to Pisa.
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  • Dozens of Florence postcards are seen on a rack in Piazza Santa Giovanni beneath Florence's Santa Maria del Fiore (Duomo) Cathedral. Various views of theis city's landscapes and scenes are seen: The Duomo cathedral; Brunelleschi's Dome; Michelangelo's David statue; renaissance paintings in the Uffizi, the Ponte Vecchio and even the Leaning Tower of Pisa are all represented here - proof that the postcard is still a memento that tourists who come to foreign cities still currently wish to send friends and relatives, in the digital age.
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  • The reflections of renaissance statues of Hercules and David are seen reflected in builder's van parked adjecent to the Piazza della Signoria in Florence's Piazza degli Uffizi. A 16th century portrait of a medieval nobleman or official rises above the vehicle and a yellow compressor is seen behind. Top left is the Uffizi art gallery that houses many national treasures but this is a scene of an urban dystopia where construction forever interferes with the cultural idyll that visitors from around the world come to see. The white marble sculpture Hercules and Cacus is to the right of the entrance of the Palazzo Vecchio in the Piazza della Signoria, Florence, Italy. The Hercules and Cacus is a work by the Florentine artist Baccio Bandinelli (1525-1534) and the David is Michelangelo's replica, now also in the Uffizi.
    florence_italy56-22-10-2010.jpg
  • Tourist graffiti scrawled on central pillar of Florence's Ponte Vecchio..The Ponte Vecchio ("Old Bridge") is a Medieval bridge over the Arno River, in Florence, Italy, noted for still having shops built along it, as was once common. Butchers initially occupied the shops; the present tenants are jewellers, art dealers and souvenir sellers. It has been described as Europe's oldest wholly-stone, closed-spandrel segmental arch bridge.
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  • Bureau de change reflected in parked car window on Florence street. A bureau de change shop offers deals and best prices to tourists and Italian passers-by on a Florence street. With the countries' flags on the far left and across, are the buy and sell rates for the Euro. Lit with dot matrix numbers, the list of decimal figures can be seen from across the street. A local-looking people walk past the store situated in a pedestrian street in the commercial centre of the city and we see the typical flag stones that line the pavements and roads.
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  • A woman street beggar prostrates herself on a pavement, ignored by Italian shoppers and pedestrians in Florence. As shoppers and tourists walk past in a hurry, pulling suitcases or carrying shopping, the people walk around the kneeling body whose stick lies on the ground with a paper cup to collect any spare change offered. There seems to be a mixture of indifference, pity and shame for what has become the modern face of Italian society in this once-grand medieval city. The city lies on the River Arno and is known for its history and its importance in the Middle Ages and in the Renaissance, especially for its art and architecture. A centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of the time, Florence has been called the Athens of the Middle Ages.
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  • An Asian tour group admires renaissance statues in Florence's Piazza della Signoria. With the tall marble replica statue of Neptune in the background as well as the mounted figure of Cosimo Medici on his horse to the left, the tourists are listening to the amplified commentary of their leader who tells them about the history of this city and its context within the medieval world of art and trade.  The city lies on the River Arno and is known for its history and its importance in the Middle Ages and in the Renaissance, especially for its art and architecture. A centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of the time, Florence has been called the Athens of the Middle Ages.
    florence_italy137-23-10-2010.jpg
  • Seen through a fisheye lens, we see an aerial view of the city of Florence (Firenze) as a lady tourist surveys the urban landscape using a tourist map. She has climbed the 84.7 meters (277.9 ft) high Gioto's Belltower (or campanile) of Duomo Cathedral. Due to the nature of the extreme-wide lens, the curvature of the horizon makes a global sort of perspective. Far below are the tiled rooftops of this Italian city's housing and properties and further into the distance are the green fields of Tuscany. On the marble ledge that is unguarded against accidental or intentional leaps, there is the graffiti of world tourism. The languages of world youth are written on this Renaissance building. The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore is the cathedral church (Duomo), begun in 1296 in the Gothic style to designs of Arnolfo di Cambio and completed structurally in 1436
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  • The shadow of a tourist is seen across a central pillar covered in graffiti on Ponte Vecchio that crosses River Arno, Florence. The names of past visitors are etched on the medieval plaster and beyond is a rower who sculls upstream on the river towards the boating club that lies just beyond the bridge at the water's edge. The Ponte Vecchio ("Old Bridge") is a Medieval bridge over the Arno River, in Florence, Italy, noted for still having shops built along it, as was once common. Butchers initially occupied the shops; the present tenants are jewellers, art dealers and souvenir sellers. It has been described as Europe's oldest wholly-stone, closed-spandrel segmental arch bridge. To enforce the prestige of the bridge, in 1593 the Medici Grand Dukes prohibited butchers from selling there; their place was immediately taken by several gold merchants.
    florence_italy79-22-10-2010.jpg
  • A reproduction of the painting called 'Portrait of Francesco I de' Medici ' which was painted by Agnolo de Cosimo Bronzino in 1551, now adorns a construction hoarding screen, with plastic blue piping in a Florence side street, the original hanging in the Uffizi. Born in Florence, he was the son of Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and Eleonora di Toledo, and served as regent for his father starting in 1564. He went on to become grand Duke of Tuscany and marry his Venetian mistress, Bianca Cappello, after aptly disposing of her husband, a Florentine bureaucrat. Francesco and Bianca died on the same day. Although the original death certificates mention malaria, it has been widely speculated that the couple was poisoned.
    florence_italy27-22-10-2010.jpg
  • From inside a large cube, we see Italian artist Michaelangelo Pistoletto's "Metrocubo d'Infinito" mirror installation at Palazzo Strozzi in the Medici Renaissance city of Florence. While the exterior of the cube looks like a gigantic rusty rubix-cube, inside is really a kind of infinity of self-reflection, covered entirely, floor to ceiling, in mirrors. And in the centre of the cube is another smaller cube made of grey stone. Young female visitors engage with the artwork and peer down to the floor where, just like all four walls and the ceiling, the repeating image stretches as far as the eye can focus.
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  • Tourists beneath renaissance art construction poster  in Florence's Piazza degli Uffizi. .
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  • Modern Italian mother and child and Agnolo de Cosimo Bronzino's painting of the Medici Eleanora of Toledo and son Giovanni C1545...Eleonora di Toledo (1522 - 1562), the daughter of Don Pedro Álvarez de Toledo, the Spanish viceroy of Naples. Her face is still familiar to many because of her solemn and distant portraits by Agnolo Bronzino. She provided the Medici with the Pitti Palace  and seven sons to ensure male succession and four daughters to connect the Medici with noble and ruling houses in Italy. She was a patron of the new Jesuit order, and her private chapel in the Palazzo Vecchio  was decorated by Bronzino, who had originally arrived in Florence to provide festive decor for her wedding. She died, with her sons Giovanni and Garzia, in 1562, when she was only forty; all three of them were struck down by malaria while traveling to Pisa.
    florence_italy165-24-10-2010.jpg
  • Modern Italian women and Agnolo de Cosimo Bronzino's painting of the Medici Eleanora of Toledo and son Giovanni C1545...Eleonora di Toledo (1522 - 1562), the daughter of Don Pedro Álvarez de Toledo, the Spanish viceroy of Naples. Her face is still familiar to many because of her solemn and distant portraits by Agnolo Bronzino. She provided the Medici with the Pitti Palace  and seven sons to ensure male succession and four daughters to connect the Medici with noble and ruling houses in Italy. She was a patron of the new Jesuit order, and her private chapel in the Palazzo Vecchio  was decorated by Bronzino, who had originally arrived in Florence to provide festive decor for her wedding. She died, with her sons Giovanni and Garzia, in 1562, when she was only forty; all three of them were struck down by malaria while traveling to Pisa.
    florence_italy163-24-10-2010.jpg
  • Tourists stand on a narrow platform near the top of Brunelleschi's Dome, seen from the adjecent Giotto's Bell Tower (campanile) in Florence. The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore is the cathedral church (Duomo) begun in 1296 in the Gothic style to the design of Arnolfo di Cambio and completed structurally in 1436 with the dome engineered by Filippo Brunelleschi. The exterior of the basilica is faced with polychrome marble panels in various shades of green and pink bordered by white and has an elaborate 19th century Gothic Revival facade by Emilio De Fabris. The cathedral complex, located in Piazza del Duomo, includes the Baptistery and Giotto's Campanile. The three buildings are part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site
    florence_italy103-22-10-2010.jpg
  • Local passing graffiti street corner and tourist kiosk near Florence's Piazza Santa Croce. It is a bright morning and the sunshine illuminates the yellow wall that has been covered at ground level by the scrawls of graffiti by local youths - a facet of every corner of the city's medieval architecture.
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  • Classical guitarist plays totourists in Florence's Piazza degli Uffizi
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  • Restaurant menu and illustration showing tourists sitting on terrace overlooking Ponte Vecchio in Florence.
    florence_italy126-23-10-2010.jpg
  • Tourists stand on a narrow platform near the top of Brunelleschi's Dome, seen from the adjecent Giotto's Bell Tower (campanile) in Florence. The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore is the cathedral church (Duomo) begun in 1296 in the Gothic style to the design of Arnolfo di Cambio and completed structurally in 1436 with the dome engineered by Filippo Brunelleschi. The exterior of the basilica is faced with polychrome marble panels in various shades of green and pink bordered by white and has an elaborate 19th century Gothic Revival facade by Emilio De Fabris. The cathedral complex, located in Piazza del Duomo, includes the Baptistery and Giotto's Campanile. The three buildings are part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site
    florence_italy98-22-10-2010.jpg
  • A European tour group admires renaissance statue copies in Florence's Loggia dei Lanzi, Piazza della Signoria. Standing beneath the taller piece entitled 'Rape of the Sabine Women' is by the Flemish artist Jean de Boulogne, better known by his Italianized name Giambologna and the visitors to this medieval city tour the cultural landmarks beneath gothic arches and replica artworks. The Rape of the Sabine Women is an episode in the legendary history of Rome in which the first generation of Roman men acquired wives for themselves from the neighboring Sabine families. The Loggia dei Lanzi, also called the Loggia della Signoria, is a building on a corner of the Piazza della Signoria adjoining the Uffizi Gallery. It consists of wide arches open to the street, three bays wide and one bay deep.
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  • A European tour group admires renaissance statue copies in Florence's Loggia dei Lanzi, Piazza della Signoria. Standing beneath the taller piece entitled 'Rape of the Sabine Women' is by the Flemish artist Jean de Boulogne, better known by his Italianized name Giambologna and the visitors to this medieval city tour the cultural landmarks beneath gothic arches and replica artworks. The Rape of the Sabine Women is an episode in the legendary history of Rome in which the first generation of Roman men acquired wives for themselves from the neighboring Sabine families. The Loggia dei Lanzi, also called the Loggia della Signoria, is a building on a corner of the Piazza della Signoria adjoining the Uffizi Gallery. It consists of wide arches open to the street, three bays wide and one bay deep.
    florence_italy44-22-10-2010.jpg
  • Agnolo de Cosimo Bronzino's exibition posters over modern Italian women in Piazza Strozzi..Agnolo de Cosimo Bronzino's painting of the Medici Eleanora of Toledo and son Giovanni C1545. Eleonora di Toledo (1522 - 1562), the daughter of Don Pedro Álvarez de Toledo, the Spanish viceroy of Naples. Her face is still familiar to many because of her solemn and distant portraits by Agnolo Bronzino. She provided the Medici with the Pitti Palace  and seven sons to ensure male succession and four daughters to connect the Medici with noble and ruling houses in Italy. She was a patron of the new Jesuit order, and her private chapel in the Palazzo Vecchio  was decorated by Bronzino, who had originally arrived in Florence to provide festive decor for her wedding. She died, with her sons Giovanni and Garzia, in 1562, when she was only forty; all three of them were struck down by malaria while traveling to Pisa..
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  • Workman bends into hole behind industrial screen in Florence street.
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  • Artist paints for tourists and Carabinieri officers patrol in Florence's Piazza degli Uffizi..
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  • Bright colours of plastic flowers bouquet underneath shabby and decaying religious mural on Florence wall.
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  • Modern Italian family and Agnolo de Cosimo Bronzino's painting of the Medici Eleanora of Toledo and son Giovanni C1545. The poster advertises the art exhibition by the celebrated painter Agnolo de Cosimo Bronzino. Agnolo de Cosimo Bronzino's painting of the Medici Eleanora of Toledo and son Giovanni C1545. Eleonora di Toledo (1522 - 1562), the daughter of Don Pedro Álvarez de Toledo, the Spanish viceroy of Naples. Eleonora was a patron of the new Jesuit order, and her private chapel in the Palazzo Vecchio  was decorated by Bronzino, who had originally arrived in Florence to provide festive decor for her wedding. She died, with her sons Giovanni and Garzia, in 1562, when she was only forty; all three of them were struck down by malaria while travelling to Pisa.
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  • Political graffiti sprayed by aerosol on public building near Ponte Vecchio in Florence.
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  • A local woman passes a graffiti-daubed street corner and tourist kiosk near Florence's Piazza Santa Croce. The smartly-dresses young lady walks by the ramshackle shop piled with souvenirs and trinkets, a rather untidy and unsafe-looking electricity junction box and a shop called The Gold Corner selling 18Kt gold. It is a bright morning and the sunshine illuminates the yellow wall that has been covered at ground level by the scrawls of graffiti by local youths - a facet of every corner of the city's medieval architecture.
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  • Graffiti street corner and tourist kiosk near Florence's Piazza Santa Croce. It is a bright morning and the sunshine illuminates the yellow wall that has been covered at ground level by the scrawls of graffiti by local youths - a facet of every corner of the city's medieval architecture.
    florence_italy29-22-10-2010.jpg
  • Modern Italian mother and child and Agnolo de Cosimo Bronzino's painting of the Medici Eleanora of Toledo and son Giovanni C1545...Eleonora di Toledo (1522 - 1562), the daughter of Don Pedro Álvarez de Toledo, the Spanish viceroy of Naples. Her face is still familiar to many because of her solemn and distant portraits by Agnolo Bronzino. She provided the Medici with the Pitti Palace  and seven sons to ensure male succession and four daughters to connect the Medici with noble and ruling houses in Italy. She was a patron of the new Jesuit order, and her private chapel in the Palazzo Vecchio  was decorated by Bronzino, who had originally arrived in Florence to provide festive decor for her wedding. She died, with her sons Giovanni and Garzia, in 1562, when she was only forty; all three of them were struck down by malaria while traveling to Pisa.
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  • Postcards rack in Piazza Santa Giovanni beneath Florence's Santa Maria del Fiore (Duomo) Cathedral.
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  • Tourists pass-by renaissance paintings on construction hoarding in Florence's Piazza degli Uffizi. .
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  • Dog and owner pause near construction netting during walk near Piazza Michelangelo to view Florence skyline
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  • Local passing graffiti street corner and tourist kiosk near Florence's Piazza Santa Croce. It is a bright morning and the sunshine illuminates the yellow wall that has been covered at ground level by the scrawls of graffiti by local youths - a facet of every corner of the city's medieval architecture.
    florence_italy34-22-10-2010.jpg
  • An Italian couple walk along a side street near Florence's Piazza Santa Croce. Graffiti lines the far wall and the man partner looks at the writing and scrawls sprayed by markers and aerosol as he seemingly pulls his lady friend or wife along the road.
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  • Modern Italian people and Agnolo de Cosimo Bronzino's painting of the Medici Eleanora of Toledo and son Giovanni C1545.The poster advertises the art exhibition by the celebrated painter Agnolo de Cosimo Bronzino. Agnolo de Cosimo Bronzino's painting of the Medici Eleanora of Toledo and son Giovanni C1545. Eleonora di Toledo (1522 - 1562), the daughter of Don Pedro Álvarez de Toledo, the Spanish viceroy of Naples. Eleonora was a patron of the new Jesuit order, and her private chapel in the Palazzo Vecchio  was decorated by Bronzino, who had originally arrived in Florence to provide festive decor for her wedding. She died, with her sons Giovanni and Garzia, in 1562, when she was only forty; all three of them were struck down by malaria while travelling to Pisa.
    florence_italy154-24-10-2010.jpg
  • Rooftops and housing in early evening of city of Florence seen from Giotto's Bell Tower (campanile). Florence (Firenze) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with 367,569 inhabitants (1,500,000 in the metropolitan area). The city lies on the River Arno and is known for its history and its importance in the Middle Ages and in the Renaissance, especially for its art and architecture. A centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of the time, Florence has been called the Athens of the Middle Ages.
    florence_italy107-22-10-2010.jpg
  • Rooftops and housing in early evening of city of Florence seen from Giotto's Bell Tower (campanile). Florence (Firenze) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with 367,569 inhabitants (1,500,000 in the metropolitan area). The city lies on the River Arno and is known for its history and its importance in the Middle Ages and in the Renaissance, especially for its art and architecture. A centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of the time, Florence has been called the Athens of the Middle Ages.
    florence_italy106-22-10-2010.jpg
  • Tourist stands overlooking city of Florence on Giotto's Bell Tower (campanile) in Florence..She has climbed 414 steps up 84.7 meters (277.9 ft) high Gioto's Belltower (or campanile) of Duomo Cathedral. .The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore is the cathedral church (Duomo) of Florence, Italy, begun in 1296 in the Gothic style to the design of Arnolfo di Cambio and completed structurally in 1436 with the dome engineered by Filippo Brunelleschi. The exterior of the basilica is faced with polychrome marble panels in various shades of green and pink bordered by white and has an elaborate 19th century Gothic Revival facade by Emilio De Fabris. The cathedral complex, located in Piazza del Duomo, includes the Baptistery and Giotto's Campanile. The three buildings are part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site .
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  • The landscape painter Leo Mancini-Hresko constructs a view on canvass of the Ponte Santa Trinita in Florence. Born in Boston, Leo currently teaches painting and drawing, both privately in his studio in Piazzale Donatello and for The Florence Academy of Art. Ponte Santa Trinita was constructed by the Florentine architect Bartolomeo Ammanati from 1567 to 1569. Its site, downstream of the equally remarkable Ponte Vecchio,[2] is a major link in the medieval street plan of Florence, which has been bridged at this site since the thirteenth century. The bridge was destroyed in 1944 by retreating German troops but reconstructed in 1958 with original stones raised from the Arno or taken from the same quarry, under the direction of the architect Riccardo Gizdulich and the engineer Emilio Brizzi.
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  • The landscape painter Leo Mancini-Hresko constructs a view on canvass of the Ponte Santa Trinita in Florence. Born in Boston, Leo currently teaches painting and drawing, both privately in his studio in Piazzale Donatello and for The Florence Academy of Art. Ponte Santa Trinita was constructed by the Florentine architect Bartolomeo Ammanati from 1567 to 1569. Its site, downstream of the equally remarkable Ponte Vecchio,[2] is a major link in the medieval street plan of Florence, which has been bridged at this site since the thirteenth century. The bridge was destroyed in 1944 by retreating German troops but reconstructed in 1958 with original stones raised from the Arno or taken from the same quarry, under the direction of the architect Riccardo Gizdulich and the engineer Emilio Brizzi.
    florence_italy96-22-10-2010.jpg
  • Shoppers browse the many jewellers shop displays on Florence's Ponte Vecchio. The Ponte Vecchio ("Old Bridge") is a Medieval bridge over the Arno River, in Florence, Italy, noted for still having shops built along it, as was once common. Butchers initially occupied the shops; the present tenants are jewellers, art dealers and souvenir sellers. It has been described as Europe's oldest wholly-stone, closed-spandrel segmental arch bridge. To enforce the prestige of the bridge, in 1593 the Medici Grand Dukes prohibited butchers from selling there; their place was immediately taken by several gold merchants.
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  • An Asian tour group admires renaissance statues in Florence's Loggia dei Lanzi, Piazza della Signoria...The Loggia dei Lanzi, also called the Loggia della Signoria, is a building on a corner of the Piazza della Signoria in Florence, Italy, adjoining the Uffizi Gallery. It consists of wide arches open to the street, three bays wide and one bay deep. The arches rest on clustered pilasters with Corinthian capitals. Rape of the Sabine Women by the Flemish artist Jean de Boulogne, better known by his Italianized name Giambologna
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  • Tourists stand opposite Brunelleschi's Dome on Giotto's Bell Tower (campanile) in Florence..They have climbed 414 steps up 84.7 meters (277.9 ft) high Gioto's Belltower (or campanile) of Duomo Cathedral. .The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore is the cathedral church (Duomo) of Florence, Italy, begun in 1296 in the Gothic style to the design of Arnolfo di Cambio and completed structurally in 1436 with the dome engineered by Filippo Brunelleschi. The exterior of the basilica is faced with polychrome marble panels in various shades of green and pink bordered by white and has an elaborate 19th century Gothic Revival facade by Emilio De Fabris. The cathedral complex, located in Piazza del Duomo, includes the Baptistery and Giotto's Campanile. The three buildings are part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site .
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  • An Asian tour group admires renaissance statues in Florence's Piazza della Signoria. With the tall marble replica statue of Neptune in the background as well as the mounted figure of Cosimo Medici on his horse to the left, the tourists are listening to the amplified commentary of their leader who tells them about the history of this city and its context within the medieval world of art and trade.  The city lies on the River Arno and is known for its history and its importance in the Middle Ages and in the Renaissance, especially for its art and architecture. A centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of the time, Florence has been called the Athens of the Middle Ages.
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  • Wide landscape view of the Ponte Santa Trinita in Florence. Ponte Santa Trinita was constructed by the Florentine architect Bartolomeo Ammanati from 1567 to 1569. Its site, downstream of the equally remarkable Ponte Vecchio,[2] is a major link in the medieval street plan of Florence, which has been bridged at this site since the thirteenth century. The bridge was destroyed in 1944 by retreating German troops but reconstructed in 1958 with original stones raised from the Arno or taken from the same quarry, under the direction of the architect Riccardo Gizdulich and the engineer Emilio Brizzi.
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  • The shadow of a tourist is seen across a central pillar covered in graffiti on Ponte Vecchio that crosses River Arno, Florence. The names of past visitors are etched on the medieval plaster and beyond is a rower who sculls upstream on the river towards the boating club that lies just beyond the bridge at the water's edge. The Ponte Vecchio ("Old Bridge") is a Medieval bridge over the Arno River, in Florence, Italy, noted for still having shops built along it, as was once common. Butchers initially occupied the shops; the present tenants are jewellers, art dealers and souvenir sellers. It has been described as Europe's oldest wholly-stone, closed-spandrel segmental arch bridge. To enforce the prestige of the bridge, in 1593 the Medici Grand Dukes prohibited butchers from selling there; their place was immediately taken by several gold merchants.
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  • The reflections of renaissance statues of Hercules and David are seen reflected in builder's van parked adjecent to the Piazza della Signoria in Florence's Piazza degli Uffizi. A 16th century portrait of a medieval nobleman or official rises above the vehicle and a yellow compressor is seen behind. Top left is the Uffizi art gallery that houses many national treasures but this is a scene of an urban dystopia where construction forever interferes with the cultural idyll that visitors from around the world come to see. The white marble sculpture Hercules and Cacus is to the right of the entrance of the Palazzo Vecchio in the Piazza della Signoria, Florence, Italy. The Hercules and Cacus is a work by the Florentine artist Baccio Bandinelli (1525-1534) and the David is Michelangelo's replica, now also in the Uffizi.
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  • The reflections of renaissance statues of Hercules and David are seen reflected in builder's van parked adjecent to the Piazza della Signoria in Florence's Piazza degli Uffizi. A 16th century portrait of a medieval nobleman or official rises above the vehicle and a yellow compressor is seen behind. Top left is the Uffizi art gallery that houses many national treasures but this is a scene of an urban dystopia where construction forever interferes with the cultural idyll that visitors from around the world come to see. The white marble sculpture Hercules and Cacus is to the right of the entrance of the Palazzo Vecchio in the Piazza della Signoria, Florence, Italy. The Hercules and Cacus is a work by the Florentine artist Baccio Bandinelli (1525-1534) and the David is Michelangelo's replica, now also in the Uffizi.
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  • A group of American interior design students sketch buildings adjacent while sitting on steps of public building in Florence's Piazza Di Annunziata. The small class is made up mostly of young women and there is a young man who is apparently teaching one woman how to capture the finer points of the architecture opposite. They all have sketchpads on their laps and are either looking into the distance, memorising the landscapes - or using pencils to reproduce these features on to paper. Florence and other Italian cities are full of young Americans studying music and painting, art and design, completing and complimenting US-based courses often as foreign exchange students or as residential terms.
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  • Overlooking tiled rooftops and medival streets from the Duomo in Florence (Firenze) in Italy's Tuscany.
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  • Foreign tourists admire renaissance architecture while Carabinieri officers mingle with the crowds and patrol the darker covered galleries and streets around Florence's Piazza degli Uffizi. The policemen watch out for suspicious activity as well as playing cat and mouse from illegal street hawkers selling fake goods and copyrighted artwork prints. The sun is sinking over the far side of the Arno River and we also see the buildings in the background that occupy the far southern bank of the Arno. The Uffizi Gallery is one of the oldest and most famous art museums of the Western world. It is housed in the Palazzo degli Uffizi, a palazzo in Florence.
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  • Michelangelo's David's genitalia appear on tourist aprons souvenirs on sale in Piazza Michelangiolo above the city of Florence. Reproduced on trinket clothing, the penis is positioned at the front. It is said that the genitals were created smaller to imply that David was not allowing himself to make decisions with pleasure in mind. "David" is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture created between 1501 and 1504, by the Italian artist Michelangelo. It is a 5.17 metre (17 feet) marble statue of a standing male nude. The statue represents the Biblical hero David, a favoured subject in the art of Florence but soon came to symbolise the defence of civil liberties in the Florentine Republic, an independent city-state threatened on all sides by more powerful rival states and by the Medici family.
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  • Tourists enjoy food and drink in outdoor restaurant tent on Florence, Italy.
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  • David and Hercules & Cacus statue copies and Palazzo Vecchio in Piazza della Signoria..Benvenuto Cellini's Perseus with the Head of Medusa, Michelangelo's David Hercules and Cacus statues and Palazzo Vecchio in Piazza della Signoria. The Loggia dei Lanzi, also called the Loggia della Signoria, is a building on a corner of the Piazza della Signoria in Florence, Italy, adjoining the Uffizi Gallery. It consists of wide arches open to the street, three bays wide and one bay deep. The arches rest on clustered pilasters with Corinthian capitals.
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  • A European tour group admires renaissance statue copies in Florence's Loggia dei Lanzi, Piazza della Signoria. Standing beneath the taller piece entitled 'Rape of the Sabine Women' is by the Flemish artist Jean de Boulogne, better known by his Italianized name Giambologna and the visitors to this medieval city tour the cultural landmarks beneath gothic arches and replica artworks. The Rape of the Sabine Women is an episode in the legendary history of Rome in which the first generation of Roman men acquired wives for themselves from the neighboring Sabine families. The Loggia dei Lanzi, also called the Loggia della Signoria, is a building on a corner of the Piazza della Signoria adjoining the Uffizi Gallery. It consists of wide arches open to the street, three bays wide and one bay deep.
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  • Agnolo de Cosimo Bronzino's exibition posters and QVC Tv channel street promo at Piazza Strozzi..Eleonora di Toledo (1522 - 1562), the daughter of Don Pedro Álvarez de Toledo, the Spanish viceroy of Naples. Her face is still familiar to many because of her solemn and distant portraits by Agnolo Bronzino. She provided the Medici with the Pitti Palace  and seven sons to ensure male succession and four daughters to connect the Medici with noble and ruling houses in Italy. She was a patron of the new Jesuit order, and her private chapel in the Palazzo Vecchio  was decorated by Bronzino, who had originally arrived in Florence to provide festive decor for her wedding. She died, with her sons Giovanni and Garzia, in 1562, when she was only forty; all three of them were struck down by malaria while traveling to Pisa.
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  • Tourists stand on a narrow platform near the top of Brunelleschi's Dome, seen from the adjecent Giotto's Bell Tower (campanile) in Florence. The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore is the cathedral church (Duomo) begun in 1296 in the Gothic style to the design of Arnolfo di Cambio and completed structurally in 1436 with the dome engineered by Filippo Brunelleschi. The exterior of the basilica is faced with polychrome marble panels in various shades of green and pink bordered by white and has an elaborate 19th century Gothic Revival facade by Emilio De Fabris. The cathedral complex, located in Piazza del Duomo, includes the Baptistery and Giotto's Campanile. The three buildings are part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site
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  • Graffiti street corner on Florence's Piazza Santa Croce.
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  • A street beggar has been noticed by a young Italian boy who points out the poor kneeling body to his parent. A stick lies on the ground with a paper cup to collect any spare change offered and a cash customer stands entering his pin number into the automated bank dispenser, his back to the underclass of society. This has become normal for what has become the modern face of Italian society in this once-grand medieval city. The city lies on the River Arno and is known for its history and its importance in the Middle Ages and in the Renaissance, especially for its art and architecture. A centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of the time, Florence has been called the Athens of the Middle Ages.
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  • Man walking along pavement near local shop on corner of Florence street corner
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  • Brunelleschi's Dome seen from Giotto's Bell Tower (campanile).The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore is the cathedral church (Duomo) of Florence, Italy, begun in 1296 in the Gothic style to the design of Arnolfo di Cambio and completed structurally in 1436 with the dome engineered by Filippo Brunelleschi. The exterior of the basilica is faced with polychrome marble panels in various shades of green and pink bordered by white and has an elaborate 19th century Gothic Revival facade by Emilio De Fabris. The cathedral complex, located in Piazza del Duomo, includes the Baptistery and Giotto's Campanile. The three buildings are part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site ..
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  • Mens' clothing in shop window and reflection of Florence's Duomo cathedral.
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  • Chinese bride walks behind her new husband dusing photoshoot walk in Florence's Piazza degli Uffizi.
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  • Modern Italian family and Agnolo de Cosimo Bronzino's painting of the Medici Eleanora of Toledo and son Giovanni C1545..Eleonora di Toledo (1522 - 1562), the daughter of Don Pedro Álvarez de Toledo, the Spanish viceroy of Naples. Her face is still familiar to many because of her solemn and distant portraits by Agnolo Bronzino. She provided the Medici with the Pitti Palace  and seven sons to ensure male succession and four daughters to connect the Medici with noble and ruling houses in Italy. She was a patron of the new Jesuit order, and her private chapel in the Palazzo Vecchio  was decorated by Bronzino, who had originally arrived in Florence to provide festive decor for her wedding. She died, with her sons Giovanni and Garzia, in 1562, when she was only forty; all three of them were struck down by malaria while traveling to Pisa.
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  • Women admire wedding dress in window of Atelier Aimee bridal shop on Florence's Borgo degli Albizi..
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  • Young lovers pass an expensive wedding dress on display in the window of the bridal shop Atelier Aimee on Florence's Borgo degli Albizi street. Arm in arm the couple walk on by, unable to afford such an extravagant item of clothing for their future wedding day. Contemporary graffiti adorns the far wall below old frescoes that may be medieval but the only colour in this scene is from the lit shop window and dress and of the people.
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  • Family of father and children crossing the Borgo degli Albizi in Florence..
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  • Bright colours of plastic flowers bouquet underneath shabby and decaying religious mural on Florence wall.
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  • A tourists takes a photo in front of defaced renaissance paintings in Florence's Piazza degli Uffizi. behind her is the reproduction of a renaissance painting that now adorns a construction hoarding screen. Someone has drawn a moustache and cannabis joint in the mouth of a religious character.
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  • Tourists pass-by renaissance paintings on construction hoarding in Florence's Piazza degli Uffizi. .
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  • Decaying medieval gate house once near city walls, now in Piazza Guiseppe Poggi on Florence's south bank.
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  • Political graffiti sprayed by aerosol on public building near Ponte Vecchio in Florence.
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  • Fallen over motorbike in line of mopeds on Florence street.
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  • Near the mainline station called Santa Maria Novello, a young couple whose upper bodies and faces are hidden by a drawn curtain (drapes) have their portrait taken in a Florence street photobooth. We assume that the man is seated on the rotating stool while his partner sits on his lap, both their trainers viewed at the bottom as the automatic machine takes their pictures at a price of 2, 4 or 5 Euros. The Italian word Fotoressera is written on the top of the kiosk. This is particular form of photography used primarily for institutional purposes, usually for identity documents; licenses; identity cards; railway passes and resumes.
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  • Tourists ride in a horse drawn carrage past scooters and bikes along river Arno north bank in city of Florence.
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  • Graffiti street corner and tourist kiosk near Florence's Piazza Santa Croce.
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  • Artist paints for tourists and Carabinieri officers patrol in Florence's Piazza degli Uffizi..
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  • Construction workman and tourists beneath renaissance art  poster in Florence's Piazza degli Uffizi. .
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  • Modern Italian mother and child and Agnolo de Cosimo Bronzino's painting of the Medici Eleanora of Toledo and son Giovanni C1545...Eleonora di Toledo (1522 - 1562), the daughter of Don Pedro Álvarez de Toledo, the Spanish viceroy of Naples. Her face is still familiar to many because of her solemn and distant portraits by Agnolo Bronzino. She provided the Medici with the Pitti Palace  and seven sons to ensure male succession and four daughters to connect the Medici with noble and ruling houses in Italy. She was a patron of the new Jesuit order, and her private chapel in the Palazzo Vecchio  was decorated by Bronzino, who had originally arrived in Florence to provide festive decor for her wedding. She died, with her sons Giovanni and Garzia, in 1562, when she was only forty; all three of them were struck down by malaria while traveling to Pisa.
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  • Agnolo de Cosimo Bronzino's exibition posters and QVC Tv channel street promo at Piazza Strozzi..Eleonora di Toledo (1522 - 1562), the daughter of Don Pedro Álvarez de Toledo, the Spanish viceroy of Naples. Her face is still familiar to many because of her solemn and distant portraits by Agnolo Bronzino. She provided the Medici with the Pitti Palace  and seven sons to ensure male succession and four daughters to connect the Medici with noble and ruling houses in Italy. She was a patron of the new Jesuit order, and her private chapel in the Palazzo Vecchio  was decorated by Bronzino, who had originally arrived in Florence to provide festive decor for her wedding. She died, with her sons Giovanni and Garzia, in 1562, when she was only forty; all three of them were struck down by malaria while traveling to Pisa.
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  • Agnolo de Cosimo Bronzino's exibition posters and QVC Tv channel street promo at Piazza Strozzi..Eleonora di Toledo (1522 - 1562), the daughter of Don Pedro Álvarez de Toledo, the Spanish viceroy of Naples. Her face is still familiar to many because of her solemn and distant portraits by Agnolo Bronzino. She provided the Medici with the Pitti Palace  and seven sons to ensure male succession and four daughters to connect the Medici with noble and ruling houses in Italy. She was a patron of the new Jesuit order, and her private chapel in the Palazzo Vecchio  was decorated by Bronzino, who had originally arrived in Florence to provide festive decor for her wedding. She died, with her sons Giovanni and Garzia, in 1562, when she was only forty; all three of them were struck down by malaria while traveling to Pisa.
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  • Tourists enjoy food and drink in an outdoor restaurant tent in Florence, Italy. A photo of the restaurant's chef with possibly two other cooks are seen in a window ad that bears the words "Enjoy with Us" - an invitation to come dine with the owners of the pizzeria. Customers are seated under strong lights in this otherwise dark street, enjoying wine and their respective partners' company.
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  • Woman passes road island in Florence's Via de Bardi on south bank of city, near Ponte Vecchio.
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  • Italian ATAF bus service passes close medieval wall in side street near Ponte Vecchio in Florence.
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  • Two female tourists walk beneath the perfect nude male example of Michelangelo's David statue in Piazza della Signoria. It is said that the statue's genitals were created smaller to imply that David was not allowing himself to make decisions with pleasure in mind. "David" is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture created between 1501 and 1504, by the Italian artist Michelangelo. It is a 5.17 metre (17 feet) marble statue of a standing male nude. The statue represents the Biblical hero David, a favoured subject in the art of Florence but soon came to symbolise the defence of civil liberties in the Florentine Republic, an independent city-state threatened on all sides by more powerful rival states and by the Medici family.
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  • Fountain of Neptune statue in pink lighting in Piazza della Signoria..
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  • Above tourists from south Asia, we see Michelangelo's David, Baccio Bandinelli's Hercules & Cacus and Benvenuto Cellini's Perseus with the Head of Medusa statues stand in Piazza della Signoria, beneath the fortress palace Palazzo Vecchio. Piazza della Signoria is an L-shaped square in front of the Palazzo Vecchio ("Old Palace") which is the town hall of the city. This massive, Romanesque, crenulated fortress-palace is among the most impressive town halls of Tuscany. Overlooking the square with its copy of Michelangelo's David statue as well the gallery of statues in the adjacent Loggia dei Lanzi, it is one of the most significant public places in Italy, and it host cultural points and museums.
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  • Single lady tourist takes pictures on camera phone near Piazza degli Uffizi.
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  • The giant nudes of Baccio Bandinelli's Hercules & Cacus and Michelangelo's David stand in Piazza della Signoria beneath the fortress palace Palazzo Vecchio. Piazza della Signoria is an L-shaped square in front of the Palazzo Vecchio ("Old Palace") which is the town hall of the city. This massive, Romanesque, crenulated fortress-palace is among the most impressive town halls of Tuscany. Overlooking the square with its copy of Michelangelo's David statue as well the gallery of statues in the adjacent Loggia dei Lanzi, it is one of the most significant public places in Italy, and it host cultural points and museums.
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