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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.
Pietro Tacca's bronze Porcellino (Museo Bardini). Il Porcellino (Italian "piglet") is the local Florentine nickname for the bronze fountain of a boar.The fountain figure was sculpted and cast by Baroque master Pietro Tacca (1577–1640) shortly before 1634, [1] following a marble Italian copy of a Hellenistic marble original, at the time in the Grand Ducal collections and today on display in ...
Annunziata, Florence. For Giambologna's equestrian statue of Cosimo de' Medici in the Piazza della Signoria , Tacca contributed the bas-relief panels on its base. Taking his inspiration from a famous marble copy of a Hellenistic marble boar ( Il Cinghiale ) in the ducal collection at the Uffizi , Tacca set himself the task of surpassing it: the ...
The Maremman boar (Sus scrofa majori) is a subspecies of wild boar native to Maremma in Central Italy. It is much smaller than the Central European boar and the two subspecies have been interbred on farms. Genetic studies (Larson et al. 2005) have confirmed that this taxon is a separate lineage from all other European wild boars. [2]
The Central European boar (Sus scrofa scrofa) is a subspecies of wild boar, currently distributed across almost all of mainland Europe, with the exception of some northern areas in both Scandinavia and European Russia and the southernmost parts of Greece. [2]
Enoteca Pinchiorri is an Italian restaurant in Florence, Italy. The owners are Giorgio Pinchiorri and French-born Annie Féolde. The chefs are Annie Féolde, Italo Bassi and Riccardo Monco. In 2008, the restaurant was voted 32nd best in the world by the British Restaurant magazine. [1]
Caffè Giubbe Rosse is a historical literary café in Piazza della Repubblica, Florence. [1] When opened in 1896, the cafè was actually called "Fratelli Reininghaus". It was named "Giubbe Rosse" (Red jackets or coats) in 1910, after the red jackets which waiters used to wear every day.
Sacristy of Santo Spirito, Florence: 1488–1497: Giuliano da Sangallo and Salvi d'Andrea: Loggia di San Paolo: 1489–1496: Leon Battista Alberti: Palazzo Strozzi: 1489–1534: Giuliano da Sangallo, Cronaca and others: Palazzo Gondi: 1490–1501: Giuliano da Sangallo