A donut seller near Loggia di Lanci, Piazza del Signoria
Venditore di ciambelle davanti alla Loggia dei Lanzi. Foto fine 800.
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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/
Roman Holiday; Vacanze Romane
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Roman Holiday, 1953, William Wyler, Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, poster
Mandatory Film Credit / Collection Christophel/Alinari Archives
Image date: 1953
Place of photography: Italy
Collection: Christophel/Alinari Archives
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The actres Audrey Hepburn (1929-1993) in the movie “A Roman Holiday” directed by William Wyler, Italy 1953
Mandatory photo credit: Ullstein Bild / Alinari Archives
Place of photography: Rome
Collection: Ullstein Bild / Alinari Archives
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The actors Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck in “Roman Holiday”, directed by William Wyler, USA 1953
Mandatory photo credit: Archiv Friedrich / Interfoto/Alinari Archives
Image date: 1953
Place of photography: Rome
Collection: Interfoto/Alinari Archives
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Audrey Hepburn in “Roman Holiday” for which she won an Oscar in 1954
Mandatory photo credit: 2005 / TopFoto / Alinari Archives
Image date: 1954
Collection: TopFoto / Alinari Archives
Alice Austen, photographer
Photographed here is a beautifully-dressed Alice Austen:
Alice Austen
Documentary photographer
Before Diane Arbus and Helen Levitt, there was Austen, one of the earliest female photographers in the country, who produced more than 8,000 images over the course of a long life that began in 1866.
She was, additionally, a landscape designer, a cyclist, an expert tennis player and the first woman on her native Staten Island to own a car. She took her camera everywhere — documenting immigrant communities in New York, street life, lawn tennis matches, her friends, parties, interiors. She often lugged around equipment weighing as much as 50 pounds.
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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).
Notable American women, a NYT update
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.
Leonardo’s Mona Lisa, the mystery
This 2015 video from the BBC is quite interesting, especially for any student of art history. The video is an hour long, not the 1.5 hours the video says it lasts (the last 30 minutes of the video is a repeat). You will come away from watching this video with new questions, and maybe some new answers.
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