Florence
About Florence
Florence is the capital and most populous city of the Italian region of Tuscany, with 362,353 inhabitants as of 2025. It is also the capital of the eponymous metropolitan province, which counts 989,460 inhabitants.
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Leonardo da Vinci made this fresco and it was in the grand meeting hall of Florence's Palazzo Vecchio. Then the Medicis came along and decided they wanted something else in that place — they commissioned Giorgio Vasari to renovate the room, which means we've lost that fresco.
from 294: No Such Thing As A 15-Hour Working Week, 2019-11-08 at 00:49:09 · read transcript
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There's another continuation of the story, which says that he paired up with Botticelli to do some art with Botticelli at one point. That's definitely true. and him and Botticelli started a restaurant together called The Three Frogs. This is on the Uffizi Gallery website in Florence, the gallery in Florence. Various other Spanish sources and Italian sources say that, yeah, him and Botticelli started this restaurant together.
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I love the idea that all future Last Supper paintings had a bouncer at the end who was there. Sorry, mate. Can't come in. Michelangelo's David was another victim of what is called the fig leaf campaign by the church and by the authorities in Florence, which is all about covering up genitals, basically. Nude statuary, statutory, nude statues were a new thing. There's an idea which says that Donatello's David in 1440 was the first naked statue since Roman times.
226: No Such Thing As A Turtle Painting The Ceiling, 2018-07-20 · listen
Basically, things escalated from from there and then suddenly you have got the charge of the light brigade happening And it's all going disastrous be wrong. Florence nightingales having to organize a lot of stuff I mean lots of famous things came from it I suppose Florence nightingale Mary Seacull charge of the light brigade three items of clothing but the clover the Cardigan cardigan Earl of cardigan very heavily involved in the lyprogate.
518: No Such Thing As Andrew Marvell's Cinematic Universe, 2024-02-15 · listen
He's definitely the Brian Blessed of his day maybe, because he also claimed that he rescued David at one point. He was born... He was very young when David was sculpted, but in 1527 there were these massive riots in Florence. One of the rioters, it was anti-Medici riots and one of the rioters threw a bench from a parapet which knocked off David's arm. Threw a bench?
311: No Such Thing As A Michelangel-ogram, 2020-03-07 · listen
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