 A glimpse of the Duomo looking along Via dell´Oriolo |
 Looking up the Arno |
 Palazzo Vecchio |
 Michelangelo's David (copy) in front of Palazzo Vecchio. Original 1504 |
 Bandinelli's Hercules and Cacus (1533-34) |
 Piazza della Signoria |
 Ammannati's Fountain of Neptune (1563-1575) |
 Bronze statue of Cosimo I dé Medici (Giambologna 1594) in Piazza della Signoria |
 The Duomo, late afternoon |
 Story of Joseph (Pisano 1336). Battistero door panel (copy). |
 Borgo Pinti, our street |
 Interior of the Duomo's cupola. Frescoed by Vasari and Zuccari (1569-79) with later additions |
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 Views from the cupola: Basilica di San Lorenzo and the RR station |
 Peter and Susan |
 Basilica of Santa Croce |
 Sinagoga |
 Giotto's Campanile |
 Sharon and the Campanile |
 Palazzo Vecchio (della Signoria) |
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 In the Boboli Gardens |
 Palazzo Pitti from the Gardens |
 Ponte Vecchio (1348). The Vassari Corridor (1565) runs at the top. |
 Basilica San Miniato al Monte across the Arno |
 On the terrace of the Uffizi: Sharon shoots Peter, Sam, and Grace |
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 Laurentian Library designed by Michelangelo |
 Library window |
 Library floor |
 Inside San Lorenzo |
 Our visit with Pietro and Laura: Maia, Grace, and Sam |
 Enea |
 Statue of Dante in Piazza Santa Croce |
 Door panel, Santa Croce |
 Ponte Vecchio |
 Lungarno from the Oltrarno |
 Views as we ascend to Piazzale Michelangelo |
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 Mosaic in San Miniato |
 Interior of San Miniato |
 The Forte Belvedere from San Miniato |
 Museo dell´Opera del Duomo |
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 Michelangelo's Pieta (1550) |
 Children's Choir (Luca della Robbia) |
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 Donatello's "Zuccone", the prophet Habbakuk (1427) |
 Euclid and Pythagoras (Luca della Robbia) |
 Plato and Aristotle (Luca della Robbia) |
 Donatello's Sacrifice of Isaac (1421) |
 The Head of the Prophet (Donatello 1420) |
 del Biondo's Martyrdom of St. Sebastian (1370), triptych central panel |
 side panel |
 Putto (Desiderio da Settignano), the tomb of Carlo Marsuppini, Santa Croce |
 Giotto's Coronation of the Virgin (1332), Baroncelli Chapel, Santa Croce |
 The Grand Cloister of Santa Croce designed by Brunelleschi |
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 The Pazzi Chapel (Brunelleschi), Santa Croce |
 Chapel ceiling designed by Brunelleschi, terracotta medallions by Luca della Robbia |
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 Ferdinando I dé Medici (Giambologna & Tacca) in Piazza della Santissima Annuziata |
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 Madonna with Child by Filippo Lippi (1450), Palazzo Medici-Riccardi |
 Putto on a Dolphin (Giambologna) in the Bargello |
 Bust of Ferdinando I (Giambologna 1603), entrance to Palazzo Bellini delle Stelle in Borgo Pinti |
 Porcellino (copy) by Tacca (1612) in Mercato Nuovo |
 Ponte Vecchio---Mussolini windows added to the Vasari Corridor in 1939 |
 Uffizi |
 Our Uffizi guide for a tour of the Vasari Corridor (Corridoio Vasariano) |
 Bust of Benvenuto Cellini on Ponte Vecchio from the Vasari Corridor |
 Santa Felicita from the Vasari Corridor |
 The Vasari Corridor ends at Palazzo Pitti |
 In Santa Felicita: balcony accessed by the Medici via the Vasari Corridor |
 The Deposition by Pontormo (1528). Capponi Chapel of Santa Felicita |
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 The Vasari Corridor jogs around the Mannelli tower house |
 Santa Maria Novella, designed by Alberti (1456-1470) |
 Another ascent to San Miniato |
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 Sandro, Susan, and Brunella below Piazzale Michelangelo |
 On the steps of San Miniato |
 Fiesole from the Oltrarno |