Florence III

View of the Duomo from the Palazzo Vecchio lookout tower.

View of the Duomo floor from high in the dome. See the people down there.

Single file moving up the narrow stairway to the dome. Not for the feint of heart.

At the top!

View of the painting in the ceiling cupola.

Another view of the Duomo and surrounding Florence from outside the lookout tower.

Rich on one of the exterior walkways of the lookout tower.

The Campanile from the Duomo dome viewing area.

Front and entrance to the Palazzo Pitti. Another grand art collection.

The rich frame indicates the kind of wealth held by the Medicis.

Exterior of Palazzo Pitti with a glimpse of the famous Boboli Gardens in the back.

I am in the outside hallway of Muses di San Marco. San Marco is a religious complex in Florence, Italy. It comprises a church and a convent. The convent, which is now a museum, has three claims to fame. During the 15th century it was home to two famous Dominicans, the painter Fra Angelico and the preacher Girolamo Savonarola. Also housed at the convent is a famous collection of manuscripts in a library built by Michelozzo.

Santa Maria Novella Church.

The crucifix is by Giotto.

The façade of Santa Maria Novella was completed by Leon Battista Alberti in 1470.

A find inside Florence's small archaeology museum.

Your everyday brass torch holders attached to the wall.

Exterior of the small archaeology museum.

Part of a divine mural in the Riccardi Palazzo.

Santa Maria del Carmine is a church of the Carmelite Order, in Florence. It is famous as the location of the Brancacci Chapel housing outstanding Renaissance frescoes by Masaccio.

The frescoes were begun in 1425 by artists Masolino and Masaccio.
Those by mostly Masaccio are The Tribute Money, St Peter Healing with his Shadow, The Crucifixion of St Peter, The Baptism of the Neophytes, and The Expulsion from Paradise.
Their treatment of figures in believable space made the frescoes among the most important to have come out of the Early Renaissance.

Adam and Eve getting kicked out of the Garden of Eden is a heartbreaker.

Bicycling home by the Arno was a blessing.

Friday, June 5
Uffizi
Bargello
Santa Croce Church
Galileo Museum

Saturday, June 6
Accademia
Museum of Precious Stones
Muses Deseo Innocente (orphan babies) Muses di San Marco
(Fra Angelico cells)
Duomo - climb dome
Palazzo Vecchio (Medici ruled from here.)
Palazzo Vecchio - climb lookout tower

Sunday, June 7

Palazzo Pitti (home of Medici across Arno River

San Francisco Cathedral
Small museum of Antiquities
Palazzo Riccardi
Bracucci Chapel