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Firenze
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Passeggiando per la città
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Medici Riccardi Palace is one the most important
monuments in Florence, a prototype of Renaissance
and Baroque architecture. Medici Riccardi Palace
hosts temporary exhibitions and experimental
virtual environment for museums and
galleries. The palace was designed by Michelozzo
di Bartolomeo for Cosimo de' Medici, head of the
Medici banking family, and was built between 1445
and 1460. The transition from the rusticated
masonry of the ground floor to the more
delicately refined stonework of the third floor
makes the building seem lighter and taller as the
eye moves upward to the massive cornice that caps
and clearly defines the building's outline.
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The Museum itinerary starts on the ground floor,
the fulcrum of which is Michelozzos
fifteenth-century courtyard, one of the most
suggestive sites of Renaissance Florence. The
true gem of the palazzo is the Chapel of the
Magi, reached via the elegant seventeenth-century
staircase. The chapel, built and decorated in the
fifteenth century, features a harmonious
decoration of enchanting beauty. More
specifically, the frescoes of Benozzo Gozzoli,
more famous even than the artist himself,
constitute one of the most eminent illustrations
of Medici Florence. Another important pole of
attraction of the museum of Palazzo Medici
Riccardi is the magnificent Galleria, created at
the end of the seventeenth century on the first
floor
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Medici Riccardi Palace is the first Renaissance
building erected in Florence
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Cortile di Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Michelozzos
fifteenth-century courtyard, one of the most
suggestive sites of Renaissance Florence
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Fra Filippo Lippi Madonna and child 1460
Retro
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Medici Riccardi Palace Gallery of the famous
Florentin people
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Benozzo Gozzoli
Medici Riccardi Palace Perhaps the most
important section of the palace is still today
the Chapel frescoed in 1459 by Benozzo Gozzoli
representing the Procession of the Magi. The
frescoes explicitly referred to the train of the
Concilium that met in Florence in 1439. As a
matter of fact many of the personalities
portrayed are wealthy protagonists of the time
and members of the Medici family
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John VIII Palaiologos.
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Lorenzo de Medici as Caspar in Gozzoli's
"Procession of the Magi"
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The Badìa Fiorentina is an abbey and church now
home to the Fraternity of Jerusalem situated on
the Via del Proconsolo in the centre of Florence.
Dante supposedly grew up across the street in
what is now called the 'Casa di Dante', rebuilt
in 1910 as a museum to Dante
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Entrance to Badia Fiorentina The prominent
campanile, completed between 1310 and 1330, is
Romanesque at its base and Gothic in its upper
stages.
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The abbey was founded as a Benedictine
institution in 978 by Willa, Countess of Tuscany,
in commemoration of her late husband Hubert. A
hospital was founded in the abbey in 1071. In
1307 part of the church was demolished to punish
the monks for non-payment of taxes. The church
underwent a Baroque transformation between 1627
and 1631.
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Sung vespers at 6pm and mass at 630pm every day.
Locals and tourists alike claim attending their
Vespers or Mass to be one of the most beautiful
experiences in Florence
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The Badia Polyptych by Giotto, now at the Uffizi
Gallery, was originally located in the church.
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Filippino Lippi, Apparition of the Virgin to
Saint Bernard (c. 1486)
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Cloister of the Oranges The attached Chiostro
degli Aranci (Cloister of the Oranges) contains a
fresco cycle (c. 14351439) on the life of St
Benedict, whom many attribute to the Portuguese
painter Giovanni di Consalvo, a generally unknown
follower of Fra Angelico
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Fresco by Master of the Cloister of the Oranges
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Fresco by Master of the Cloister of the Oranges
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Florence is the capital city of the region of
Tuscany and its rich historical, artistic and
cultural heritage make it one of the main tourist
destinations in Italy and Europe. Founded in the
first century A.C. by the Romans, Florence has
been through many prosperous and dark periods.
The city experienced the battles between the
Guelphs and Ghibellines, it was a Commune and
then a "Signoria" under the Medici during the
Renaissance. It was part of the Grand Duchy of
Tuscany first with the Medici and then under the
Lorraines during the 18th century, up until it
became a part of the Kingdom of Italy in 1861.
Cimabue, Dante Alighieri, Giotto, Brunelleschi,
Donatello, Botticelli and Michelangelo are just a
few of the famous Tuscan artists who contributed
to making Florence such a beautiful and important
city in the world.
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Text Internet Pictures Daniela Iacob
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Foisoreanu
2013
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