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The design has inspired landscape and garden architects throughout the world, including Charles Platt, A. E. Hanson, and Ellen Shipman in the United States and Cecil Pinsent and Pietro Porcinai in Italy and the UK. [4] In 2010 the Gamberaia was chosen as the model for the "RCSF Tuscan garden", recreated at Snug Harbor, Staten Island, New York. [5]
The presence in the villa of Charles VIII of France is documented in 1495, [3] just before he was about to enter Florence with his army. Villa Pandolfini remained substantially the same until the 17th century, when Filippo Pandolfini [4] made some alterations: constructing a large terrace on the main facade towards the Via Livornese, and the ...
This is a list of the main architectural works in Florence, Italy by period. It also includes buildings in surrounding cities, such as Fiesole . Some structures appear two or more times, since they were built in various styles.
Palazzo Gondi is a palace in Florence, Italy, located a block from Piazza della Signoria. It was built in 1490 under design by Giuliano da Sangallo, who was inspired by other major works of stately buildings in the city, such as Palazzo Medici and Palazzo Strozzi. Among the elements borrowed from these earlier works are the cube-shape set ...
The Florence Institute of Design International in an international school of Italian design. The institute was founded in 2008 in Florence Italy. Admission to the school is open to students from any country. All classes are held in the English language. Programs that are currently offered include Interior Design, Graphic Design, Art History ...
Visitors observing Michelangelo’s Doni Tondo.Uffizi is ranked as the 5th most visited art museum in the world, with around five million visitors annually.. The building of the Uffizi complex was begun by Giorgio Vasari in 1560 for Cosimo I de' Medici as a means to consolidate his administrative control of the various committees, agencies, and guilds established in Florence's Republican past ...
Loggia are common and prominent public structures in Florence; to cite two examples, Loggia dei Lanzi, or the Loggia del Grano.For the final proposal at the competition, the architect Arata Isozaki and Andrea Maffei replicate this traditional form for both its historic but also functional aspects: providing cover and protection from the elements when necessary yet also establishing a new ...
Antonio del Pollaiuolo, Portrait of a Young Woman (1470–1472), Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan. Facade of Santa Maria Novella (1456) Michelangelo, Doni Tondo (1503–1504). The Florentine Renaissance in art is the new approach to art and culture in Florence during the period from approximately the beginning of the 15th century to the end of the 16th.