#florence history

[all-that-is-gold-is-now-gone]

It's me, Hi, I'm the problem it's me

It must be so exhausting always rooting for the anti-hero

[nickysfacts]

I can confirm that the art is so good in Florence that it can indeed kill you!😂

🖼️😍😵

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

“Bombay Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida” – postcard, ca. 1950s // “Fort Lauderdale Sea Ranch Motel” – postcard, ca. 1950s // “The Arlington Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida” – postcard, ca. 1958 // Florida!!! – Taylor Swift feat. Florence + the Machine

[inartchive]

[vintageeurope]

Florence, Italy 1860/90

[saintatreidess]

[edwardian-girl-next-door]

~ Florence Harrison, "The Defence of Guenevere" from Early Poems of William Morris (1914)

via internet archive

[thomascromwelll]

RIP my girl Anne Neville. (edit I)

— Rabbit Heart by Florence and The Machine Anne Neville in The White Queen (d. 16 march, 1485)

[hornyforpoetry]

Ulise's Room // Palazzo Pitti // Florence, Italy

[oliverscarlin]

Benvenuto Cellini - Narcissus (c.1548)

[gracies-dreams]

𝐏𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐋𝐚𝐝𝐲 (𝑪𝒂𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒍𝒂 𝑴𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒊 𝒅𝒆' 𝑴𝒆𝒅𝒊𝒄𝒊) 𝒃𝒚 𝑨𝒍𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒓𝒐 𝑨𝒍𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒊. 1570s, 𝐎𝐢𝐥 𝐨𝐧 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐯𝐚𝐬

[medievalistsnet]

A 15th-century stucco Madonna and Child, hidden for over 70 years, has undergone a dramatic restoration in Florence. Once discoloured and forgotten, the sculpture now reveals its original colours and exquisite detail.

Click here for more images and details

[ourstaturestouchtheskies]

A Wolf – Jan Fyt // Howl – Florence + the Machine

[itscolossal]

A Forgotten Vault Where Michelangelo Hid and Sketched For Months Opens for the First Time

[the-cricket-chirps]

Florence Carlyle, The Moth, c. 1910

[thatshowthingstarted]

The "Medici Riccardi Horse Head"

An extraordinary bronze sculpture of the head of a horse, which dates to the second half of the fourth century BC.

During the Renaissance Donatello used this as a model for his works, as did Leonardo da Vinci.  The head was once part of a full statue of a horse, but the body of the horse has been lost to history.

Cast bronze, once guilded.

National Archaeological Museum of Florence,

Photo: Ilya Shurygin.