Luigi Orlando

Senator Luigi Orlando is getting more and more perplexed at the changes going on around him...

See also: Sunset - Porta a Mare - What Time Is It?

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Theme Day: Cafe Chairs

Rattan cafe chairs and tables under the porticoes of Via Grande. Please note the palladian flooring ...

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Yellow and Pink

Windows of adjacent buildings, Piazza Mazzini.

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On Board the Vespucci - 2 of 2

This is the second (and last) installation of a set of “rescued” pictures taken during a visit on board the Italian Navy training ship “Amerigo Vespucci”. Here is the ship's bell ...

... and a detail of what I think is a quite elegant capstan of sorts.

Search labels: Amerigo Vespucci
See also: Amerigo Vespucci - On Board - Elbow Grease - Going Aloft - Bye Bye Vespucci - Details - Around the Vespucci - Drawings - Welcome Home - Vespucci's Boats - Vespucci's Anchors - Navy and Stamps - 80 Years - Palinuro and Vespucci - Tall Ships Walk - Amerigo Vespucci: Vidhar - Two Months at Sea - Admirals on Board - Up There - Cristoforo Colombo - On Board the Vespucci - 1 of 2
External links: Italian training ship Amerigo Vespucci (Wikipedia)

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Palladian Flooring

Two different shades of Palladian flooring ...

... under the porticoes of Largo Duomo.

See also: Pavements

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Sea Monster

In the post Four Horses we were able to ascertain the prowess of the sculptor Pietro Tacca with horses, and we have not yet seen the last of it. He was also quite good at doing monsters of the sea variety, like this one on a fountain in our in Piazza Colonnella, at the west end of Via Grande.

Originally, the fountains (1629) should have been placed on the sides of the Four Moors, but the Grand Duke Ferdinando II liked them so much that kept them in Florence and had them erected by his ancestor's equestrian statue in Piazza della Santissima Annunziata (photo). We only got copies, after three centuries...

See also: Sea Monsters - Four Horses
External links: Pietro Tacca (Wikipedia)

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Via Magenta

Via Magenta, January 2013

Via Magenta, early 1900s
(The caption on the postcard is clearly wrong)

(Postcard digitized from the collection of Antonio Cantelli)

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See also: Santa Maria del Soccorso - Fallen

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