Showing posts with label Florence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Florence. Show all posts

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Santa Maria Novella Train Station, Florence, Italy

Florence is so famous for its Renaissance culture, that one forgets that it has a great Early Modern train station, welcoming travelers into the city.It's so not like Renaissance architecture, it provides a little bit of a respite from the oppressive ubiquity of Albertian or Brunelleschian architecture.

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Florence Cathedral

Sigh, Florence's cathedral is so much more awesomer than St. Louis's Cathedral. But I guess not everyone can have a dome designed by Filippo Brunelleschi.



Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Florentine Details

Palazzo Medici Riccardi
Giorgio Vasari, Room of the Five Hundred, Palazzo Vecchio
Michelangelo, Pieta
Florence Cathedral
Pontormo, Lamentation

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