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Caravaggio e i Caravaggeschi a Firenze: Uffizi Gallery and Palatine Gallery
Did Caravaggio actually come through Florence?
Did he see, as some would claim, the wonderful botanical watercolours by Jacopo Ligozzi in the Medici collection?
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Vinum Nostrum: Pitti Palace Argenti Museum
From Mesopotamia to our tables, from the rite of communion to avoidable drunkenness, from distasteful habit to gate of spirituality, wine and the grapevine are the protagonists of the exhibition. [more]
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Getting around by bus
Timetables, routes, maps, and all you need about public transport in Florence. [more]
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Michelangelo's House
The museum keeps some early works by the artist, such as the Madonna of the Stairs, Santo Spirito Crucifix, and the 'Battle of Centaurs', a collection of about 200 autograph drawings (displayed on rotation) plus a canvas by Artemisia Gentileschi. [more]
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Cenacolo of Andrea del Castagno
One of the masterpieces of Florentine Renaissance paintin just a few steps from the Academy of Fine Arts. [more]
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Cenacolo of Ognissanti
The refectory of the convent of Ognissanti is famous for the large fresco painted in 1488 by Domenico Ghirlandaio. [more]
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Medici Villa of Petraia
Petraia is one of the most attractive of the Medici villas, both on account of its position in the Tuscan landscape, and for its fine pictorial decoration and the beauty of its garden and park. [more]
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Medici Villa of Poggioa a Caiano
The villa was built by Lorenzo the Magnificent to a plan by Giuliano da Sangallo and is splendidly decorated with allegorical frescoes celebrating the Medici family, painted by Andrea del Sarto, Pontormo, Franciabigio and Alessandro Allori. [more]
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The Medici Treasury in Pitti
The Museum houses an extraordinarily rich collection of precious objects, many of which were commissioned by members of the Medici family The state rooms formed part of the grand-ducal summer apartment and show the most incredible tromp-oils. [more]
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Brancacci Chapel
Here a century after Giotto, the young Masaccio 'rivaled nature' and revolutionized Western art. Most Renaissance painters, from Fra Angelico to Raphael, studied these frescoes, but perhaps none understood them as well as Michelangelo. [more]
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