Photos from Florence, Tuscany, Italy, Europe

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Group at lunch

Daily schedule

Explanation

Model for the original

The artist

Explanation

This is going to get redundant…

Note the left foot

Lid for a hope chest

Depth, and look at the frame!

The David

Bye!

Right hand seems large

One piece of marble

Nail in the palm of his hand

Unfinished works

Prisoners

Closer

Foot

Another of the Prisoners

Santa Croce

And Fermi

Tombs and memorials

Altar

Michelangelo

And Galileo

Dante

Life of Francis

Altar

Cloister

Cloister

Square

Floor tombs

Ceiling

Looking back from the altar

And sculptures

Stopped on the way back

Daily schedule

Brunellesci

Ghiberti

Competition!

Window in the gallery

Explanation of St George and the Dragon

Young shepherd

And the back

St george

David

And one more David

One of the other Davids

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Brief history of Italy

Italy map

Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis...more history

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