Uffizi

Ceiling Fresco

 

Entrance to Tribuna

 

The Tribuna of the Uffizi is an octagonal room in the Uffizi gallery, Florence, Italy. Designed by Bernardo Buontalenti for Francesco I de’ Medici for Cosimo I de’ Medici[1] in 1584, the most important antiquities and High Renaissance and Bolognese paintings from the Medici collection were and still are displayed here.

 

Saint Sebastian

 

Madonna with the child

 

Madonna of the Pomegranate
Alessandro Filipepi, detto BOTTICHELI

 

Immaculate Conception with Six Saints,
Piero di Cosimo

Portrait of a young man
PERUGINO, Pietro Vannuci

 

Laocoon and His Sons by Baccio Bandinelli

 

Supper with a Lute Player by Gerri van Honthorst

 

The Birth of Venus, Alessandro Filipepi, detto BOTTICHELLI

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Florence through the Windows

Florence Roofs from Uffizi Museum balcony. Duomo – Florence Cathedral.

 

Rain in Florence. View from Basilica Santa Croce.

Palazzo Vecchio

The Palazzo Vecchio is the town hall of Florence, Italy. It overlooks the Piazza della Signoria with its copy of Michelangelo’s David statue as well as the gallery of statues in the adjacent Loggia dei Lanzi.

Florence at Night

 

Amazing view from Piazzale Michelangelo. The most remarkable attractions of the city Palazzo Vecchio, Florence Cathedral and Basilica di Santa Croce dominate on a city scape at night-time.

Autumn farewell colours

Equinox

It was gusty wind, rain, rainbow, and sun yesterday evening. The temperature dropped from 32°C to 12°C overnight. Official Autumn came to us!

Today’s Menu

Christian Dior

In celebration of the House of Dior’s 70th anniversary, Christian Dior explores the brilliance behind Dior’s dramatic creations that revived the entire Paris haute couture industry after the devastation of the Second World War. In 1947, the opening of the new couture house and the revolutionary “New Look” – with soft shoulders, padded hips and long, full skirts – swept away the wartime masculine silhouette making Christian Dior’s postwar fashions desired, worn and copied by women around the world.

 

Church of the Dormition

“After a little while, those standing there went up to Peter and said, ‘Surely you are one of them, for your accent gives you away.’ Then he began to call down curses on himself and he swore to them, ‘I don’t know the man!’ Immediately a rooster crowed. Then Peter remembered the word Jesus had spoken: ‘Before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times.’ And he went outside and wept bitterly” (Matthew 26:73-75).

Pink Panther

Pink Panther