Giotto's Followers, Florence

1330s or so. This just shows what a whole fresco cycle looks like. Telling stories through pictures, like a comic book on the wall.

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Fun with Visitors, Fun with Early Renaissance Art

April 12th 2010
Florence is Fun, Part 2, by May Tomorrow is our last day in Florence. The last ten days or so we’ve had company. That has made Florence even more fun than before. Our first company in 7 ½ months; that’s about 230 days without talking to anyone but ourselves. It was nice to have different dinner conversations, nicer than anyone can probably imagine. Joy and Mark (our niece and brot ... read more

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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... ... read more

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