#Florence Palazzo Vecchio

[emaadsidiki]

Greetings from Florence. 🍻🌼🐸

[tragediambulante]

Details from the stories of Furius Camillus, Francesco Salviati,1543.45

[hornyforpoetry]

Oh Elise it doesn't matter what you say ... I just can't stay here every yesterday ... Like keep on acting out the same the way we act out...

Oh Elise it doesn't matter what you do ... I know I'll never really get inside of you ... To make your eyes catch fire the way they should...

Yesterday, I stood and stared wide-eyed in front of you ... And the face I saw looked back the way I wanted to ... But I just can't hold my tears away the way you do...

Elise believe I never wanted this ... Thought this time I'd keep all of my promises ... Thought you were the girl I always dreamed about ... But I let the dream go...

Studiolo of Francesco I // Palazzo Vecchio // Florence, Italy "A letter to Elise" // The Cure

[artschoolglasses]

Piazza della Signoria and Palazzo Vecchio

Florence, Italy

[speakspeak]

Inside the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy. Looking out at the copy of Michelangelo's David.

[wgm-beautiful-world]

F L O R E N C E

[madeleineengland]

Palazzo Vecchio (Florence; Italy)

[whumpty-dumpty]

Here are some more photos from our Italy holiday. ☺️ (see also here.)

Loro Ciuffenna (we had an appartement here):

Florence:

[wmelia]

These two entries are where my scrapbooking picks up a little nicer. This was my first holiday and with my partner we went to Florence, Italy, and explored the gardens, the cathedrals, the galleries, and of course we locked our love for eternity onto the ponte vecchio bridge too!

Italy is such a gorgeous country I’d love to explore other parts of it and also learn to speak the language well. We stayed out of the city a little, in Scandicci and ate out there one day local to our airbnb. They spoke little English so I had to try my best to speak what I knew to order our food and i didn’t do the worse tbf but it encouraged me to speak better.

I thought the different lace bits really fit into these pages in with the green for the plant life, too. I love how I fit all the Polaroids in together and these were the first pages I was really happy to look at.

[sy666th]

Losing your mind Ancient history is full of beheadings…it was easy to lose your mind. Among the biblical beheadings that have most inspired artists over the centuries, that of Judith and Holofernes is often reported as an example of female power (although I don't understand what power comes from killing someone completely drunk, but I don't pretend to understand the Bible …)

In the biblical story, Judith is a widow who lives in the city of Bethulia, besieged by the Assyrian general Holofernes: to save the city, she decides to go to the enemy camp, enter the general's tent and pretend to be a traitor. Holofernes falls in love with her and, eager to possess her, invites her to a banquet during which he gets drunk with her: Judith will behead him and then put his head in a basket or on a plate For many artists and scholars, Judith's sexualized femininity combined in interesting and sometimes contradictory ways with her masculine aggression. Judith is one of the virtuous female figures that Johan van Beverwijck mentioned in his defense for the superiority of women over men in 1639. In the Northern Renaissance this was an example of the iconographic theme of "women's power" (German: Weibermacht).

Judith and Holofernes Michelangelo Merisi known as Caravaggio – 1597-1599 Painting

Palazzo Barberini - Rome - Italy

Judith and Holofernes

Donatello - 1455–1460

bronze sculpture located in the Hall of Lilies, in the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, Italy. A copy stands in one of the sculpture's original positions on the Piazza della Signoria, in front of the Palazzo Vecchio

[olemisekunst]

In front of the Palazzo Vecchio, the Tuscan Gothic town hall. The Michelangelo's David statue in front of it was just a copy. The Fountain of Neptune was awesome but so crowded all the time, it was hard to even get close to it. Imo the entire city is overrun with more American tourists than it can handle. 🤔⛲️

[emaadsidiki]

Monumental Arch of Palmyra

[illustratus]

“Cerca trova” (seek and ye shall find)

Detail from The Battle of Marciano in Val di Chiana by Giorgio Vasari

[somethingwithmoles]

[artschoolglasses]

Palazzo Vecchio

Florence, Italy

[h-f-k]

From time to time i remember how i felt when i saw the birth of venus by botticelli for the first time and that bit of electricity that ran through my blood when I discovered and realized the tiny details of gold in Venus’ hair and how that small detail was never brought up by my professors in college or from the art books i own. It was definitely one of my favorite moments ever.