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Building Date Architect Notes Necropoli of Palastreto: 8th century BC: Tomba della Mula: 7th century BC: Sesto Fiorentino: Archaeological area of Fiesole: 3rd century - 4th century BC: Fiesole: Roman Amphitheatre of Florence: 2nd century BC: Archaeological excavations of Santa Reparata: 4th-5th century AD. Torre della Pagliazza: Perhaps 6th ...
Statue of Michele di Lando, Loggia del Mercato Nuovo, Florence. The loggia was built around the middle of the 16th century in the heart of the city, just a few steps from the Ponte Vecchio. Initially, it was intended for the sale of silk and luxury goods and then for the famous straw hats, [1] but today mainly leather goods and souvenirs are sold.
This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2008) The following is a list of notable Renaissance structures. Belgium Antwerp City Hall Czech Republic Château of Litomyšl Villa Belvedere in Prague Denmark Kronborg Castle Rosenborg Castle Børsen England Hampton Court Palace, from 1514 onwards Hengrave Hall, Suffolk Sutton Place, Surrey Elizabethan prodigy houses ...
The historic centre of Florence is part of quartiere 1 of the Italian city of Florence. This quarter was named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1982. [1] [2] Built on the site of an Etruscan settlement, Florence, the symbol of the Renaissance, rose to economic and cultural pre-eminence under the Medici in the 15th and 16th centuries.
Palazzo Rucellai is a palatial fifteenth-century townhouse on the Via della Vigna Nuova in Florence, Italy.The Rucellai Palace is believed by most scholars to have been designed for Giovanni di Paolo Rucellai by Leon Battista Alberti between 1446 and 1451 and executed, at least in part, by Bernardo Rossellino.
The architecture of the interior is articulated by the use of pietra serena, a dark, high quality, fine grained sandstone, though in fact the load-bearing structure of the building is its masonry, i.e. it is the walls that support the arches and domes, not the pilasters which are decorative rather than structural. Pazzi Chapel ceiling
The Basilica di Santo Spirito ("Basilica of the Holy Spirit") is a church in Florence, Italy. Usually referred to simply as Santo Spirito, it is located in the Oltrarno quarter, facing the square with the same name. The interior of the building – internal length 97 m (318 ft) – is one of the preeminent examples of Renaissance architecture.
Piazza del Mercato Vecchio, by Giovanni Stradano (Palazzo Vecchio, Sala di Gualdrada). In the early medieval period the forum area was densely inhabited. Before the closure of the fifth circle of city walls, chroniclers record that there was no longer a single garden or pasture in the city, and that urban crowding led to tenements with ever-rising floors, including case-torri (tower houses).