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Home of the Renaissance
Birthplace of modern world
Michelangelo’s David
Botticelli’s Birth of Venus
Ghiberti’s bronze gates
Fra Angelico’s serene beauty
The dome that kicked off the Renaissance
The fall of ancient Rome
Rebirth of the culture of ancient
Greece and Rome
To balance domes, columns and arches
To revive realism and emotion
The wonder of nature and the human body
Beautiful people in harmonious surroundings
The optimism and confidence of new age
Capitalism was replacing feudalism
The middleman of trade between
west and east
Wealthy merchant and banking families
(the Medici)
Commission splendid art
To unleash an explosion of innovation
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Florence Cathedral – the Duomo
A remarkable dome, facade and bell tower
Gothic cathedral capped by a spire
A gaping hole
Filippo Brunelleschi
To inspire the Vatican
Art and science combined to make beauty
To reward with a great view
The interior glitters with
Bysantine-style mosaics
To bring countless Bible stories to life
To overlook creation on Judgment day
To give the ultimate thumbs up…
and thumbs down
Angel Gabriel blows his trumpet
To bring good news to the saved
Lorenzo Ghiberti won the commission
Bronze panels of Gates of Paradise
To utilize mathematical laws of perspective
A whole new perspective – depth
A foreground distinction from
the middle and background
To become part of a scene
Age of humanism
Excellence was rewarded
Man moved out of the shadow of church
David by Donatello
A freestanding male nude sculptured
Art for Art’s sake
David slaying the giant Goliath
A celebration of the human body
The palace of the Medici family
Michelangelo’s David, a copy and the original
The centerpiece of Academia Gallery
A temple to humanism
To size up Goliath
Merging art and science
To dissect human corpses
To glorify God
To exaggerate realism
Symbolic of the hand of God
To rise above rival city-states
Lined with Michelangelo’s
unfinished prisoners
Struggling to break out of the marble
Divinely created within the rock
To chisel away the excess
To reveal the figures
Renaissance love of the body
The Cathedral’s greatest treasures
Adjacent Cathedral museum
Decorating the interior with statues
Realism and emotion unprecedented in
European art
Donatello – a ground-breaking example
Balcony of the choir
Exuberance of the age
Happy angels celebrate the freedom and
motion
An eccentric, innovative, workaholic master
To light up the statues with an inner
spirituality or soul
Mary Magdalene carved out of wood
Provocative and shockingly realistic
Once-beautiful body
Scarred by the fires of fasting and remorse
Spirit stands strong
The most famous piece
Pieta by Michelangelo
The broken body of the crucified Christ
Taller than life
A self-portrait of 80-year old Michelangelo