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Palazzo Pubblico in Siena and the Clock tower. The campanile or bell tower, Torre del Mangia, was built between 1325 and 1344; its crown was designed by the painter Lippo Memmi. The tower was designed to be taller than the tower in neighboring rival Florence; at the time it was the tallest structure in Italy. It was fitted with a mechanical ...
Palazzo Pitti, Florence Bargello, Florence Palazzo dell'Arcone di Piazza, Florence Palazzo delle Assicurazioni Generali, Florence. Palazzo degli Alessandri, Florence; Palazzo dell'Antella; Palazzo Antinori; Palazzo dell'Arte dei Beccai; Palazzo delle Assicurazioni Generali, Florence; Bargello; Palazzo Bartoli Corbini; Palazzo Bartolini Salimbeni
During the Middle Ages, Siena was a wealthy self-governing city-state in competition with its neighbor Florence. Taxes were collected to start funding the long construction of a city hall. By 1169, the Piazza del Campo was organized to be constructed. In 1260, the Sienese and papal ally Florence came into conflict at the Battle of Montaperti ...
The square includes three main buildings, the Palazzo Senatorio (Senatorial Palace) also known as the Comune di Roma Capitale (City Hall), and the two palaces that make up the Capitoline Museums, the Palazzo dei Conservatori and the Palazzo Nuovo, considered to be one of the oldest national museums, founded in 1471 when Pope Sixtus IV donated ...
The palazzo was then renamed the National Palace and became initially the seat of the Cisalpine Republic's military command and then its Directorate. When the Austro-Russians regained control of Milan in 1799, the French government quickly auctioned most of the palazzo's furnishings and allowed the rest to be looted by the general population.
Spinello's style was a sort of link between the school of Giotto and that of Siena. In the early part of his life he worked in Florence as an assistant to his master Jacopo while painting frescoes in the church of the Carmine and in Santa Maria Novella. Between 1360 and 1384 he was occupied in painting many frescoes in and near Arezzo, almost ...
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).
Palazzo Marino is a 16th-century palace located in Piazza della Scala, in the centre of Milan, Italy. It has been Milan's city hall since 9 September 1861. It borders on Piazza San Fedele , Piazza della Scala, Via Case Rotte [ 1 ] and Via Tommaso Marino.