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  • Renaissance palace architecture exteriors are usually build of huge stone blocks heavily pilowed, with a bench below and a series of flambeau or torch holders along the wall.
    Renaissance-flambeau-in-situ-ITA2010...jpg
  • Renaissance palace architecture exteriors are usually build of huge stone blocks heavily pilowed, with a bench below and a series of flambeau or torch holders along the wall.
    Torch_holder_detail_ITA201012-193.jpg
  • View from S. Miniato al Monte of the medieval and Renaissance fortifications that Michelangelo worked on for a year or two when the Florentine Republic was at war with the Medici supporters.  Beyond, the terraces of the newly opened Bardini Gardens.
    Florence_fortifications_ITA201012-12...jpg
  • Early Renaissance architecture: the key figure is Filippo Brunelleschi.  His Ospedale degli Innocenti (Foundling Hospital, (1419–ca.1445), is the first major monument of his elegant classical style with its arches and colonnades.  This is the courtyard inside.
    ITA201012-088 BW.jpg
  • Early Renaissance architecture: the key figure is Filippo Brunelleschi.  His Ospedale degli Innocenti (Foundling Hospital, (1419-ca.1445), is the first major monument of his elegant classical style with its arches and colonnades.  This is the courtyard inside, its serene colonnade arching over a potted orange tree.
    Brunelleschi-courtyard-colonnade-ITA...jpg
  • Restored villa and mill of the Croatia Academy of Arts and Sciences, in the grounds of the Trsteno Arboretum, a preserved Renaissance garden.  Seaside facade and parts of the garden in view.  Villa originally the family summer home of Nicolò Vito Gozze (1549-1610).
    Trsteno-Croatia-HRV200606-338.jpg
  • Closeups of faces in the crowd in Ghirlandaio's Adoration of the Magi.  His style has stronger lines and more insistent detail than we have seen before.  Many are probably portraits of specific individuals.  As my friend Patsy said, "they're so gossipy!"
    Renaissance-men-portraits-Ghirlandai...jpg
  • Closeups of faces in the crowd in Ghirlandaio's Adoration of the Magi.  His style has stronger lines and more insistent detail than we have seen before.  Many are probably portraits of specific individuals.  As my friend Patsy said, "they're so gossipy!"
    Renaissance-men-portraits-ITA201012-...jpg
  • Marble statue of St. Luke, by Nanni di Banco, in the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo, Florence.  The work was on the original facade of the cathedral, which was redesigned and built.  The seated figure looks down on us with a supercilious sneer, holding a book on his knee with one hand.
    Saint Luke Renaissance statue ITA201...jpg
  • Head of Nanni di Banco's marble statue of St. Luke in the Museo dol'Opera del Duomo.  His facial expression seems to show a very condescending squint.
    Sculpture-portrait-Renaissance-ITA20...jpg
  • Frontal view of three young men in colorful costume with drum and spears marching down the main street.
    HRV200606-364.jpg
  • Lavenham townscapes and architecture: distinctive crooked house leans against its neighbor.
    Lavenham townscape ENG200701-0024.jpg
  • I collect domes.  This looks straight upward at the central dome of the Pazzi Chapel with its pendentives and adjoining arches.  Medallions in the pendentives are the four Evangelists.
    Dome_interior_ITA201012-112.jpg
  • Lavenham townscapes and architecture.  Detail of its Guildhall, now painted white, on the corner of Lady Street.  Fine ornamental detail carved on the corner, uprights, cornice, and window frames
    Lavenham townscape ENG200701-0029.jpg
  • The Palazzo Alberti-Corsi is a late 15th century town house or palazzetto.  It was eventually bought by an English art historian Herbert Percy Horne, who restored the residence to what he determined was its original state.  He left it to the state after his death.  The interior is fascinating and each room has a determined young security person who enforces "no foto."  However in one small room where the leaded window glass  appealed to me, I managed a quick shot with my pocket Canon G10.  The varying thicknesses of the glass roundels appear in different shades of blue and pale orange.
    Leaded_circles_window_ITA201101--199...jpg
  • Frontal view of three young men in colorful costume with drum and spears marching down the main street.
    HRV200606-364.jpg
  • Brunilleschi's next major work after the Ospedale degli Innocenti was the Pazzi Chapel, next to the Santa Croce basilica, from 1441-1460.  The Pazzi family, rich Florentine bankers, conspired against the Medici brothers Lorenzo and Giuliani. In 1478 they succeeded in murdering Giuliano during mass in the cathedral.  Lorenzo escaped and became subsequently "Lorenzo the Magnificent."  The Pazzi chapel, however, is a gem of serene beauty.  This exterior shot is the usual one shown in books.  A few tourists come and go on the approach path.
    Pazzi-chapel-exterior-approach-ITA20...jpg
  • Frontal view of three young men in colorful costume with drum and spears marching down the main street.
    Dubrovnik-Croatia-HRV200606-364.jpg
  • Lavenham townscapes and Tudor period architecture.  igh Street entrance facade of the Swan Inn, seen from a sharp angle alongside the structure to emphasize the second storey overhang.
    Lavenham townscape ENG200701-0037.jpg
  • Lavenham townscapes and architecture
    Lavenham townscape ENG200701-0033.jpg
  • Lavenham townscapes and architecture: Little Hall, now a museum, was a house built in the 14th century, enlarged in the 16th century, and eventually housed several families.  Restored in the 1920s by the Gayer-Anderson twin brothers, in 1975 it was given to the Suffolk Preservation Trust.  See history and program at http://www.littlehall.org.uk/littlehall/index.htm.  It is the oldest house in Lavenham.
    Lavenham townscape ENG200701-0031.jpg
  • Green cloister of Sta Maria Novella, considered an extraordinary example of Italian Gothic architecture, begun around 1340 by Fra' Sisto and Fra' Ristoro. I like cloisters because they slow life down to make contemplation easier. Under the arcade is a series of frescoes by Paolo Uccello showing the Creation and the story of Noah, dated 1424.
    Santa-Maria-Novella-cloister-ITA2010...jpg
  • The Palazzo Alberti-Corsi is a late 15th century town house or palazzetto.  It was eventually bought by an English art historian Herbert Percy Horne, who restored the residence to what he determined was its original state.  He left it to the state after his death.  The interior is fascinating and each room has a determined young security person who enforces "no foto."  However in one small room where the leaded window glas appealed to me, I managed a quick shot with my pocket Canon G10.
    ITA201101--1991.jpg
  • Internal stairway in the Palazzo Davanzati.  I like stairways.
    Mysterious-old-stairway-ITA201101--0...jpg
  • Courtyard of the Medici Palace, with transparent red gauze cloth banner hanging between two columns.  Tourist couple standing nearby looking around them.  The banner shows a collage of a photograph and a Ghirlandaio fresco with a quotation from Gabriele di Annunzio.
    Medici-Palace-courtyard-Florence-ITA...jpg
  • Drunkenness of Noah, early 15th century relief sculpture on corner of the Doges' Palace, Venice; Bridge of Sighs in the background; seen from Ponte della Paglia.
    bridge-sighs-Venezia_ITA200403-4-19.jpg
  • Rome, adjoining stairways of Santa Maria di  Ara Coeli and the Campidoglio hill seen from below, across the piazza by the Ara Coeli bus stop.
    Campidoglio-Rome_ITA200901--1183.jpg
  • The duomo interior is large and quite bare.  Again the pietra serena with white walls combination is used.  The floor of polished multicolored marble echoes the exterior color combination of red, green, grey, and white.
    Florence_Duomo_nave-ITA201101--0059.jpg
  • Detail of the serpent in the Garden of Eden, by Paolo Uccello, 1424, with color correction to bring out detail.  The fresco, in the Green Cloister of Santa Maria Novella, was badly damaged in the flood of 1966.  Even so the concept of   the serpent in the Garden of Eden as an attractive blonde woman has great appeal to me.
    Garden-Eden-serpent-ITA201012--0062c...jpg
  • A few years after the Sassetti Chapel, Girlandaio decorated the Tornabuoni Chapel in the apse of Santa Maria Novella.  The subject is the life of John the Baptist, 1485-1490,  seen from the northern side of the nave.  Altar with wooden crucifix, decorated with pots of red poinsettias and candelabra as it is still the Christmas season.
    Florence-Santa-Maria-Novella_Tornabu...jpg
  • Green cloister of Sta Maria Novella, considered an extraordinary example of Italian Gothic architecture, begun around 1340 by Fra' Sisto and Fra' Ristoro.  I like cloisters because they slow life down to make contemplation easier.  Under the arcade is a series of frescoes by Paolo Uccello showing the Creation and the story of Noah, dated 1424.  Details in the next images of this gallery.
    Florence-Santa-Maria-Novella-cloiste...jpg
  • Interior of the Pazzi Chapel showing one corner with arched windows and terra cotta roundels by Luca della Robbia above them.   The grey edgings and  pilasters are of pietra serena, a specific type of stone from Fiesole.  Combined with the warm white walls they make an exquisitely serene space.  Some scholars now think that Berunelleschi was responsible for the design, and the building work was completed by others, such as Michelozzo.
    Pazzi-chapel-interior-ITA201012-114.jpg
  • Brunelleschi's courtyard of the Ospedale degli Innocenti is a perfection of proportion.  In this view inside a colonnade,  a window reflects the exterior of the courtyard colonnade.  A wooden bench suggests repose in this quiet place.
    Brunelleschi-courtyard-detail-ITA201...jpg
  • The fresco in the smaller dome at left, over the altar, represents the sky in Florence on July 4, 1442 according to astronomers.  Together the dome interiors, medallions, and arches, form a complex of circular and angular shapes.  Attending to what is going on in the ceiling, it is not clear where the eye must rest.
    Pazzi_chapel_ceiling_SI197905-23.jpg
  • View up a steep stair, masonry walls and arched vault, toward a mysterious opening above.
    Sibenik_Croatia_HRV200606-031.jpg
  • Detail, head of St. James, from the statue on the portal, right side.  Hair schematized in narrow incised parallel ridges; stern facial expression.
    Sibenik_Croatia_HRV200606-009.jpg
  • I could not decide between a horizontal and vertical picture, so I did both.
    Brunelleschi_colonnade_detail_ITA201...jpg
  • One of the scenes from the life of Noah: an angel instructs him to build the Ark while a man hoes the soil and a woman with two small children stand nearby.  Severely damaged in the 1966 floods and not yet restored.
    ITA201012--0060.jpg
  • Tempietto di Bramante, in courtyard of San Pietro di Montorio. 1502, on the site where St. Peter is supposed to have been crucified.  Round, Doric order, dome, seen through arched entrance.
    Bramante-tempietto-Rome_ITA200901--1...jpg
  • Detail, head of St. James, from the statue on the portal, right side.  Hair schematized in narrow parallel ridges; stern facial expression.
    St. James Sibenik HRV200606-009.jpg
  • Annunciation by Luca della Robbia is set into the arched vault of the Ospedale degli Innocenti.  The "Della Robbia blue" covers the background of the white figures of the angel and Mary.
    Della-Robbia-Annunciation -ITA201101...jpg
  • Florence, Arno river, view of apartments and shops along the river bank, reflected in the water.
    Florence_apartments_riverside_ITA201...jpg
  • Facade of Santa Maria Novella, designed by Leon Battista Alberti, 1456-70 on a commission by a local textile magnate, Giovanni di Paolo Rucellai.  The church itself, a Dominican foundation, was built 100 years previously.
    Florence-Santa-Maria-Novella-facade-...jpg
  • View down the main street toward the hill overlooking the city, where remains of defense works from the Serbian attacks of 1991-1992 can be seen.
    Dubrovnik-Croatia-HRV200606-366.jpg
  • Trogir: sculptures in Chapel of Blessed John from Trogir, in the Cathedral of St. Lawrence, by Niccolo of Florence (pupil of Donatello), begun 1468.
    Trogir-sculpture-putto--HRV200606-09...jpg
  • Lavenham architecture : half timbered house, painted orange, with carved wooden door and leaded windows.  Facade from the street, including sidewalk of multicolored stones.
    Lavenham townscape ENG200701-0004.jpg
  • Venice, Arsenale gate and lion statuary through rails of fence.  The lion figures were taken from Greece, possibly Delos, in the 17th century..
    Venezia_ITA200403-9-18.jpg
  • Corte Sconto, Venice.  View toward water gate, as gondolier passes.  The Corte appears in one of Hugo Pratt's Corto Maltese graphic novels of the 1930s.
    Corte-Sconto-Venezia_ITA200403-07-31.jpg
  • Sibenik, Cathedral of St. James, built 1431-1535.  Architects Juraj (George) of Dalmatia and Niccolo of Florence.  Row of sculptured life size portrait heads around the apse exterior, mid-late 15th century work by sculptor George Matthew the Dalmatian (Juraj Matejev Dalmatinac)
    Sibenik_Croatia_HRV200606-013.jpg
  • Winged lion relief sculpture at top of Arsenale gate, Venice.  Angel statue above has pigeon on her head.  Inscription below the lion:  VICTORIAE NAVALIS MONUMENTUM MDLXXI.   Bright blue sky above; scraps of fluffy cloud...
    Venezia_ITA200403-9-23.jpg
  • Hexagonal lozenge from the Campanile: woman at a loom, with another woman standing next to it looking on, denoting the Art of Wool-Making.  Attributed to Andrea Pisano.  Classical air of the drapery shows that the Renaissance has begun.
    Renaissance weaver ITA201012--0033 e...jpg
  • Point of view looking up at a pair of windows and a balcony, lined with potted plants, in a medieval/Renaissance dwelling in Trogir.  The entire old town section is designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
    Trogir-Renaissance-dwelling--HRV2006...jpg
  • Four singers and players, one woman and three men, play on Renaissance replica instruments, wearing Renaissance era clothing.  They are seen from the back, in the shadow of a colonnade, while tourists in shorts watch and listen in the sunshine beyond.
    Dubrovnik-Croatia-HRV200606-372.jpg
  • Architectural detail of a Romanesque colonnade with detail of a carved capital beyond the dome of a Renaissance era church.  Simple graphic design juxtaposes the two as they are.
    Dubrovnik-Croatia-HRV200606-369.jpg
  • Cloister and Renaissance facade of Santa Clemente.  Woman tourist with camera.  Cobblestoned pavement, graceful arched 18th century facade using ancient columns for the colonnade.
    San-Clemente-Rome_ITA200901--1260.jpg
  • Sibenik, water dish for dogs built into a Renaissance wall, inscribed "AMOR D' CANI"
    HRV200606-011.jpg
  • View down a medieval street in Trogir, Croatia.  Trogir is the best-preserved Romanesque-Gothic complex not only in the Adriatic, but in all of Central Europe. Trogir's medieval core, surrounded by walls, comprises a preserved castle and tower and a series of dwellings and palaces from the Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque periods. (Wikipedia) Though no people are present, there is nevertheless a sense that these ancient dwellings are still kept up and lived in.
    Trogir-streetscape--HRV200606-101.jpg
  • Hexagonal lozenge from the Campanile: woman at a loom, with another woman standing next to it looking on, denoting the Art of Wool-Making.  Attributed to Andrea Pisano.  Classical air of the drapery shows that the Renaissance has begun.
    Medieval-woman-weaving-ITA201012--00...jpg
  • Sibenik, water dish for dogs built into a Renaissance wall, inscribed "AMOR D' CANI"  Streetscape with marble pavement.
    Sibenik_Croatia_HRV200606-011.jpg
  • Statue of St. Mark with winged angels at peak of central doorway, San Marco; seagull flying by, "giving St. Mark the bird.".<br />
Renaissance and Baroque statuary often reside on rooftops, cornices, towers, and everything above.
    St. Mark Basilsica Venice ITA200403-...jpg
  • View of a medieval - Renaissance belltower in a residential area of Diocletian's Palace.  Medieval clock with Roman numerals around its circumference; bell in a loggia above; TV aerial visible from an adjoining residence.
    Split-Croatia-HRV200606-115.jpg
  • Even in January, Florence was very crowded.  This view is from the Palazzo Vecchio along the Uffizi Gallery.  The crowd is a mix of tourists and residents, apparently.  Note the live "sculpture" on the left.  We'll see him again later.  Banner showing a modern copy of a Renaissance portrait of a large-nosed man (Cosimo dei Medici?) hangs at right in advertisement for some feature on offer at the time.
    Crowds_outside_Uffizi_ITA201012-223.jpg
  • Santa Maria in Domnica, exterior, colonaded facade with Roman era carved marble boat in forecourt. Boat is an ancient offering incorporated into the 16th century fountain.  An unusual example of Renaissance adaptive reuse of ancient work.  Church portico by Sansovino 1513  main church is 9th century basilica with three apses, and lovely mosaics.  http://romanchurches.wikia.com/wiki/Santa_Maria_in_Domnica
    navicella-Rome_ITA200901--1275.jpg
  • Hexagonal lozenge from the Campanile: apothecary in his shop with four women customers, denoting the Art of Medicine.  Attributed to Andrea Pisano.
    Renaissance_pharmacist_ITA201012--00...jpg
  • Brancacci Chapel: ...Detail of 'St. Peter Enthroned', showing a group of five men in the audience on the left of the fresco.  One pair are conversing, paying no attention to the event playing before them.
    Renaissance-men-group-portrait-ITA20...jpg
  • Sassetti chapel in Santa Trinita with frescoes by Domenico Ghirlandaio of the Life of St. Francis, 1483-86.  Four or five well dressed ladies in the foreground, male escorts behind.
    Four-Renaissance-ladies-fresco-ITA20...jpg
  • Sassetti chapel in Santa Trinita with frescoes by Domenico Ghirlandaio of the Life of St. Francis, 1483-86.  Group of well dressed men seem to be talking; two kneeling friars in their robes..  Self-portrait at the far right, looks out towards us.
    Group-Renaissance-men-fresco-ITA2010...jpg
  • Hexagonal lozenge from the Campanile: apothecary in his shop with four women customers, denoting the Art of Medicine.  Attributed to Andrea Pisano.
    Renaissance apothecary ITA201012--00...psd
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