Corridoio del Lungarno Archibusieri nel 1959, Firenze.
Florence (Firenze)
5 weird (but wonderful) things about Florence
Florence in 1800s
A donut seller near Loggia di Lanci, Piazza del Signoria
Venditore di ciambelle davanti alla Loggia dei Lanzi. Foto fine 800.
Carriage rides in Florence: fun but what about the horses?
For more, see the source: http://www.theflorentine.net/news/2018/07/fiaccherai-of-florence-horse-carriage-rides/
Olivia de Havilland in Florence, c. 1955
L’attrice Olivia de Havilland, nata il 1 luglio 1916, in Lambretta presso la loggia dei Lanzi nel 1955 circa. L’attrice nota per aver partecipato al film americano Via col Vento (Gone with the Wind).
An Italian model, 1954
Modella in posa all’angolo di via Strozzi con via de’Tornabuoni nel 1954.
Obsession: a film set against a backdrop of Florence
In 1976 Brian de Palma released Obsession, which was filmed in New Orleans and Florence.
Come for the settings. Stay for the weird, melodramatic story. It’s vale la pena: well worth it.
The mystery of Il Duomo
You’ll need an hour to watch this, but it is well worth it.
Filippo Brunelleschi in 12 minutes
Did you know? Firenze
When looking through a photograph album at the Alinari archives, I was shown this photograph of the Duomo in Florence taken sometime before 1874 when the album was created.
When you zero in on the facade of the Duomo, things get very interesting. Instead of the brightly colored and highly embellished facade on the cathedral that one sees nowadays in Florence, this photograph reveals that the facade was left unfinished and unembellished after the Renaissance.
The following photo, of the Duomo today, shows the facade that was added to the building in the 1870s.
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