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  • With an autumnal sun setting over the hills to the west of the city, we see in the foreground the streets, rooftops and housing of Florence, viewed from an aerial height from Giotto's Bell Tower (campanile). Florence (Firenze) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with 367,569 inhabitants (1,500,000 in the metropolitan area). The city lies on the River Arno and is known for its history and its importance in the Middle Ages and in the Renaissance, especially for its art and architecture. A centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of the time, Florence has been called the Athens of the Middle Ages.
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  • The commercial and shopping street Via de Calzaioli plus rooftops and housing seen in early evening of city of Florence seen from Giotto's Bell Tower (campanile). In the background is the fortress palace called the Palazzo Vecchio. Florence (Firenze) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with 367,569 inhabitants (1,500,000 in the metropolitan area). The city lies on the River Arno and is known for its history and its importance in the Middle Ages and in the Renaissance, especially for its art and architecture. A centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of the time, Florence has been called the Athens of the Middle Ages.
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  • The landscape painter Leo Mancini-Hresko constructs a view on canvass of the Ponte Santa Trinita in Florence. Born in Boston, Leo currently teaches painting and drawing, both privately in his studio in Piazzale Donatello and for The Florence Academy of Art. Ponte Santa Trinita was constructed by the Florentine architect Bartolomeo Ammanati from 1567 to 1569. Its site, downstream of the equally remarkable Ponte Vecchio,[2] is a major link in the medieval street plan of Florence, which has been bridged at this site since the thirteenth century. The bridge was destroyed in 1944 by retreating German troops but reconstructed in 1958 with original stones raised from the Arno or taken from the same quarry, under the direction of the architect Riccardo Gizdulich and the engineer Emilio Brizzi.
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  • Tired and disappointed tourists and a pretend Egyptian pharaoh busker stand awaiting custom in Florence's Piazza degli Uffizi. In the darker covered galleries and streets around Florence's Uffizi galleries, the two young visitors sit looking exhausted and disillusioned, also possibly overwhelmed by the amount of culture and art in this renaissance city. The Uffizi Gallery is one of the oldest and most famous art museums of the Western world. It is housed in the Palazzo degli Uffizi, a palazzo in Florence, Italy.
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  • Behind the viewer, tourists gaze upwards to the Baptistry of San Giovanni beneath Florence's Santa Maria del Fiore (Duomo) Cathedral. Hundreds of worldwide visitors tour the Piazza San Giovanni to see the Duomo and Giotto's Belltower. The dramatic Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore is the cathedral church (Duomo) of Florence, Italy, begun in 1296 in the Gothic style to the design of Arnolfo di Cambio and completed structurally in 1436 with the dome engineered by Filippo Brunelleschi.
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  • Michelangelo's David's genitalia appear on tourist aprons souvenirs on sale in Piazza Michelangiolo above the city of Florence. Reproduced on trinket clothing, the penis is positioned at the front. It is said that the genitals were created smaller to imply that David was not allowing himself to make decisions with pleasure in mind. "David" is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture created between 1501 and 1504, by the Italian artist Michelangelo. It is a 5.17 metre (17 feet) marble statue of a standing male nude. The statue represents the Biblical hero David, a favoured subject in the art of Florence but soon came to symbolise the defence of civil liberties in the Florentine Republic, an independent city-state threatened on all sides by more powerful rival states and by the Medici family.
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  • Dozens of Florence postcards are seen on a rack in Piazza Santa Giovanni beneath Florence's Santa Maria del Fiore (Duomo) Cathedral. Various views of theis city's landscapes and scenes are seen: The Duomo cathedral; Brunelleschi's Dome; Michelangelo's David statue; renaissance paintings in the Uffizi, the Ponte Vecchio and even the Leaning Tower of Pisa are all represented here - proof that the postcard is still a memento that tourists who come to foreign cities still currently wish to send friends and relatives, in the digital age.
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  • The shadow of a tourist is seen across a central pillar covered in graffiti on Ponte Vecchio that crosses River Arno, Florence. The names of past visitors are etched on the medieval plaster and beyond is a rower who sculls upstream on the river towards the boating club that lies just beyond the bridge at the water's edge. The Ponte Vecchio ("Old Bridge") is a Medieval bridge over the Arno River, in Florence, Italy, noted for still having shops built along it, as was once common. Butchers initially occupied the shops; the present tenants are jewellers, art dealers and souvenir sellers. It has been described as Europe's oldest wholly-stone, closed-spandrel segmental arch bridge. To enforce the prestige of the bridge, in 1593 the Medici Grand Dukes prohibited butchers from selling there; their place was immediately taken by several gold merchants.
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  • Tourists mill beneath the Baptistry of San Giovanni (right) beneath Florence's Santa Maria del Fiore (Duomo) Cathedral. on the left. Hundreds of worldwide visitors tour the Piazza San Giovanni to see the Duomo and Giotto's Belltower. The dramatic Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore is the cathedral church (Duomo) of Florence, Italy, begun in 1296 in the Gothic style to the design of Arnolfo di Cambio and completed structurally in 1436 with the dome engineered by Filippo Brunelleschi.
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  • A reproduction of the painting called 'Portrait of Francesco I de' Medici ' which was painted by Agnolo de Cosimo Bronzino in 1551, now adorns a construction hoarding screen, with plastic blue piping in a Florence side street, the original hanging in the Uffizi. Born in Florence, he was the son of Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany and Eleonora di Toledo, and served as regent for his father starting in 1564. He went on to marry his Venetian mistress, Bianca Cappello, after aptly disposing of her husband, a Florentine bureaucrat. Francesco and Bianca died on the same day. Although the original death certificates mention malaria, it has been widely speculated that the couple was poisoned
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  • Michelangelo's David's genitalia images on sale in Piazza Santa Giovanni beneath Florence's Santa Maria del Fiori Cathedral. Reproduced on the boxer shorts, the penis is positioned at the opening where the wearers own genitals appear! It is said that the genitals were created smaller to imply that David was not allowing himself to make decisions with pleasure in mind. "David" is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture created between 1501 and 1504, by the Italian artist Michelangelo. It is a 5.17 metre (17 feet) marble statue of a standing male nude. The statue represents the Biblical hero David, a favoured subject in the art of Florence but soon came to symbolise the defence of civil liberties in the Florentine Republic, an independent city-state threatened on all sides by more powerful rival states and by the Medici family.
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  • Tourists gaze upwards to the Baptistry of San Giovanni beneath Florence's Santa Maria del Fiore (Duomo) Cathedral. The couple sit looking exhausted and disillusioned, also possibly overwhelmed by the amount of culture and art in this renaissance city. The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore is the cathedral church (Duomo) of Florence, Italy, begun in 1296 in the Gothic style to the design of Arnolfo di Cambio and completed structurally in 1436 with the dome engineered by Filippo Brunelleschi
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  • An Asian tour group admires renaissance statues in Florence's Piazza della Signoria. With the tall marble replica statue of Neptune in the background as well as the mounted figure of Cosimo Medici on his horse to the left, the tourists are listening to the amplified commentary of their leader who tells them about the history of this city and its context within the medieval world of art and trade.  The city lies on the River Arno and is known for its history and its importance in the Middle Ages and in the Renaissance, especially for its art and architecture. A centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of the time, Florence has been called the Athens of the Middle Ages.
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  • A woman street beggar prostrates herself on a pavement, ignored by Italian shoppers and pedestrians in Florence. As shoppers and tourists walk past in a hurry, pulling suitcases or carrying shopping, the people walk around the kneeling body whose stick lies on the ground with a paper cup to collect any spare change offered. There seems to be a mixture of indifference, pity and shame for what has become the modern face of Italian society in this once-grand medieval city. The city lies on the River Arno and is known for its history and its importance in the Middle Ages and in the Renaissance, especially for its art and architecture. A centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of the time, Florence has been called the Athens of the Middle Ages.
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  • With a setting sun reflected as a starburst of light in a street lamp, we see the yellow-painted plaster wall of a building on the corner of Florence's Piazza Santa Croce, Florence. A pigeon is caught flying at speed past the viewer and graffiti spoils this otherwise idyllic landscape in the renaissance city. Properties that line the piazza are already in deep shadow but there are still many visitors standing around on the stones to admire the Santa Croce church that is located to the left of this street.
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  • Foreign tourists admire renaissance architecture while Carabinieri officers mingle with the crowds and patrol the darker covered galleries and streets around Florence's Piazza degli Uffizi. The policemen watch out for suspicious activity as well as playing cat and mouse from illegal street hawkers selling fake goods and copyrighted artwork prints. The sun is sinking over the far side of the Arno River and we also see the buildings in the background that occupy the far southern bank of the Arno. The Uffizi Gallery is one of the oldest and most famous art museums of the Western world. It is housed in the Palazzo degli Uffizi, a palazzo in Florence, Italy.
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  • Shoppers browse the many jewellers shop displays on Florence's Ponte Vecchio. The Ponte Vecchio ("Old Bridge") is a Medieval bridge over the Arno River, in Florence, Italy, noted for still having shops built along it, as was once common. Butchers initially occupied the shops; the present tenants are jewellers, art dealers and souvenir sellers. It has been described as Europe's oldest wholly-stone, closed-spandrel segmental arch bridge. To enforce the prestige of the bridge, in 1593 the Medici Grand Dukes prohibited butchers from selling there; their place was immediately taken by several gold merchants.
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  • With tourists below, the replica of Michelangelo's David statue stands beneath Palazzo Vecchio in Florence's Piazza della Signoria. It is said that the genitals were created smaller to imply that David was not allowing himself to make decisions with pleasure in mind. "David" is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture created between 1501 and 1504, by the Italian artist Michelangelo. It is a 5.17 metre (17 feet) marble statue of a standing male nude. The statue represents the Biblical hero David, a favoured subject in the art of Florence but soon came to symbolise the defence of civil liberties in the Florentine Republic, an independent city-state threatened on all sides by more powerful rival states and by the Medici family.
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  • A group of American interior design students sketch buildings adjacent while sitting on steps of public building in Florence's Piazza Di Annunziata. The small class is made up mostly of young women and there is a young man who is apparently teaching one woman how to capture the finer points of the architecture opposite. They all have sketchpads on their laps and are either looking into the distance, memorising the landscapes - or using pencils to reproduce these features on to paper. Florence and other Italian cities are full of young Americans studying music and painting, art and design, completing and complimenting US-based courses often as foreign exchange students or as residential terms.
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  • An Italian commuter cycles on her bike across the central arches of the Ponte Vecchio over the River Arno in Florence. It is early on an autumnal morning and only two figures are seen but within a few hours this world famous tourist landmark will be teeming with visitors from around the world, their international languages heard across this location. In the background we see the still waters of the Arno and riverside buildings including the Uffizi on the left. The Ponte Vecchio ("Old Bridge") is a Medieval bridge over the Arno River, in Florence, Italy, noted for still having shops built along it, as was once common. Butchers initially occupied the shops; the present tenants are jewellers, art dealers and souvenir sellers. It has been described as Europe's oldest wholly-stone, closed-spandrel segmental arch bridge
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  • A young Italian woman sits on a ledge outside the Piazza Strozzi in central Renaissance city of Florence. Above her are giant posters advertising the art exhibition by the celebrated painter Agnolo de Cosimo Bronzino. Agnolo de Cosimo Bronzino's painting of the Medici Eleanora of Toledo and son Giovanni C1545. Eleonora di Toledo (1522 – 1562), the daughter of Don Pedro Álvarez de Toledo, the Spanish viceroy of Naples. Eleonora was a patron of the new Jesuit order, and her private chapel in the Palazzo Vecchio  was decorated by Bronzino, who had originally arrived in Florence to provide festive decor for her wedding. She died, with her sons Giovanni and Garzia, in 1562, when she was only forty; all three of them were struck down by malaria while travelling to Pisa.
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  • Seen through a fisheye lens, we see an aerial view of the city of Florence (Firenze) as a lady tourist surveys the urban landscape using a tourist map. She has climbed the 84.7 meters (277.9 ft) high Gioto's Belltower (or campanile) of Duomo Cathedral. Due to the nature of the extreme-wide lens, the curvature of the horizon makes a global sort of perspective. Far below are the tiled rooftops of this Italian city's housing and properties and further into the distance are the green fields of Tuscany. On the marble ledge that is unguarded against accidental or intentional leaps, there is the graffiti of world tourism. The languages of world youth are written on this Renaissance building. The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore is the cathedral church (Duomo), begun in 1296 in the Gothic style to designs of Arnolfo di Cambio and completed structurally in 1436
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  • A bureau de change shop offers deals and best prices to tourists and Italian passers-by on a Florence street. With the countries' flags on the far left and across, are the buy and sell rates for the Euro. Lit with dot matrix numbers, the list of decimal figures can be seen from across the street. The female member of staff sits behind a glass window because she handles foreign cash from behind the security screen. Gazing into her computer screen and supporting her chin in her hand, the woman is in her own world, unaware of the busy street outside.
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  • Young lovers pass an expensive wedding dress on display in the window of the bridal shop Atelier Aimee on Florence's Borgo degli Albizi street. Arm in arm the couple walk on by, unable to afford such an extravagant item of clothing for their future wedding day. Contemporary graffiti adorns the far wall below old frescoes that may be medieval but the only colour in this scene is from the lit shop window and dress and of the people.
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  • A tourists takes a photo in front of defaced renaissance paintings in Florence's Piazza degli Uffizi. behind her is the reproduction of a renaissance painting that now adorns a construction hoarding screen. Someone has drawn a moustache and cannabis joint in the mouth of a religious character.
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  • Near the mainline station called Santa Maria Novello, a young couple whose upper bodies and faces are hidden by a drawn curtain (drapes) have their portrait taken in a Florence street photobooth. We assume that the man is seated on the rotating stool while his partner sits on his lap, both their trainers viewed at the bottom as the automatic machine takes their pictures at a price of 2, 4 or 5 Euros. The Italian word Fotoressera is written on the top of the kiosk. This is particular form of photography used primarily for institutional purposes, usually for identity documents; licenses; identity cards; railway passes and resumes.
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  • Two female tourists walk beneath the perfect nude male example of Michelangelo's David statue in Piazza della Signoria. It is said that the statue's genitals were created smaller to imply that David was not allowing himself to make decisions with pleasure in mind. "David" is a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture created between 1501 and 1504, by the Italian artist Michelangelo. It is a 5.17 metre (17 feet) marble statue of a standing male nude. The statue represents the Biblical hero David, a favoured subject in the art of Florence but soon came to symbolise the defence of civil liberties in the Florentine Republic, an independent city-state threatened on all sides by more powerful rival states and by the Medici family.
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  • A local man reads newspaper while sitting on steps of public building in Florence's Piazza Di Annunziata. Surrounded by city pigeons that also rest across this ground-level landscape, the man appears to be sucking a pencil while perhaps completing a tricky crossword or other media quiz. There is little colour in this image of history and urban decay but there is a peace and stillness amid an otherwise busy metropolis.
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  • A local woman passes a graffiti-daubed street corner and tourist kiosk near Florence's Piazza Santa Croce. The smartly-dresses young lady walks by the ramshackle shop piled with souvenirs and trinkets, a rather untidy and unsafe-looking electricity junction box and a shop called The Gold Corner selling 18Kt gold. It is a bright morning and the sunshine illuminates the yellow wall that has been covered at ground level by the scrawls of graffiti by local youths - a facet of every corner of the city's medieval architecture.
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  • A modern Italian family and Agnolo de Cosimo Bronzino's painting of the Medici Eleanora of Toledo and son Giovanni C1545. The poster advertises the art exhibition by the celebrated painter Agnolo de Cosimo Bronzino. Agnolo de Cosimo Bronzino's painting of the Medici Eleanora of Toledo and son Giovanni C1545. Eleonora di Toledo (1522 – 1562), the daughter of Don Pedro Álvarez de Toledo, the Spanish viceroy of Naples. Eleonora was a patron of the new Jesuit order, and her private chapel in the Palazzo Vecchio  was decorated by Bronzino, who had originally arrived in Florence to provide festive decor for her wedding. She died, with her sons Giovanni and Garzia, in 1562, when she was only forty; all three of them were struck down by malaria while travelling to Pisa.
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  • A street beggar has been noticed by a young Italian boy who points out the poor kneeling body to his parent. A stick lies on the ground with a paper cup to collect any spare change offered and a cash customer stands entering his pin number into the automated bank dispenser, his back to the underclass of society. This has become normal for what has become the modern face of Italian society in this once-grand medieval city. The city lies on the River Arno and is known for its history and its importance in the Middle Ages and in the Renaissance, especially for its art and architecture. A centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of the time, Florence has been called the Athens of the Middle Ages.
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  • Tourists enjoy food and drink in an outdoor restaurant tent in Florence, Italy. A photo of the restaurant's chef with possibly two other cooks are seen in a window ad that bears the words "Enjoy with Us” - an invitation to come dine with the owners of the pizzeria. Customers are seated under strong lights in this otherwise dark street, enjoying wine and their respective partners' company.
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  • A female Italian cyclist pedals along a graffiti-lined street near Florence's Piazza Santa Croce. With the words 'I Love Weed' that refers to the popularity and merits of cannabis, the graffiti of other tags and assorted writings can be seen stretching into the distance where a family have passed-by and are continuing their journey towards their home to the east of the city.
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  • Carabinieri officers mingle with crowds and patrol the darker covered galleries and streets around Florence's Piazza degli Uffizi. In front of them reproductions of renaissance painting that now adorns a construction hoarding screen. Watching for suspicious activity as well as playing cat and mouse from illegal street hawkers selling fake goods and copyrighted artwork prints, we see an incongruous landscape of classical art and urban modernity. Someone has drawn a moustache and cannabis joint in the mouth of a religious character as the two policemen keep the city secure from possible attack.
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  • Tourists stand on a narrow platform near the top of Brunelleschi's Dome, seen from the adjecent Giotto's Bell Tower (campanile) in Florence. The Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore is the cathedral church (Duomo) begun in 1296 in the Gothic style to the design of Arnolfo di Cambio and completed structurally in 1436 with the dome engineered by Filippo Brunelleschi. The exterior of the basilica is faced with polychrome marble panels in various shades of green and pink bordered by white and has an elaborate 19th century Gothic Revival facade by Emilio De Fabris. The cathedral complex, located in Piazza del Duomo, includes the Baptistery and Giotto's Campanile. The three buildings are part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site
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  • An Italian couple walk along a side street near Florence's Piazza Santa Croce. Graffiti lines the far wall and the man partner looks at the writing and scrawls sprayed by markers and aerosol as he seemingly pulls his lady friend or wife along the road.
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  • Among medieval statues, a guitarist and street busker perform for passing tourists in Florence's Piazza degli Uffizi. Dressed in white to echo the medieval figures of city officials that stand in porticos of the main Uffizi building, a man will hug any visitor who wishes to have their photo taken alongside, for the price of a few Euros. Meanwhile, to his right, the musician plays classical songs on his acoustic instrument where its sound travels around this street corner, his notes rebounding from the solid stone walls and pillars.
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  • A European tour group admires renaissance statue copies in Florence's Loggia dei Lanzi, Piazza della Signoria. Standing beneath the taller piece entitled 'Rape of the Sabine Women' is by the Flemish artist Jean de Boulogne, better known by his Italianized name Giambologna and the visitors to this medieval city tour the cultural landmarks beneath gothic arches and replica artworks. The Rape of the Sabine Women is an episode in the legendary history of Rome in which the first generation of Roman men acquired wives for themselves from the neighboring Sabine families. The Loggia dei Lanzi, also called the Loggia della Signoria, is a building on a corner of the Piazza della Signoria adjoining the Uffizi Gallery. It consists of wide arches open to the street, three bays wide and one bay deep.
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  • A bureau de change shop offers deals and best prices to tourists and Italian passers-by on a Florence street. With the countries' flags on the far left and across, are the buy and sell rates for the Euro. Lit with dot matrix numbers, the list of decimal figures can be seen from across the street. A local-looking lady walks past the store situated in a pedestrian street in the commercial centre of the city and we see the typical flag stones that line the pavements and roads.
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  • Looking up from the ground, we see above our heads some Renaissance frescoes (the painting on the left is of Vienna) that were painted on the ceiling of the first courtyard in Palazzo Vecchia in Florence's Piazza della Signoria. The first courtyard was designed in 1453 by Michelozzo and the frescoes on the walls, representing scenes of the Austrian Habsburg estates, were painted in 1565 by Giorgio Vasari for the wedding celebration of Francesco I de' Medici, the eldest son of Cosimo I de' Medici, and Johanna of Austria, sister of the Emperor Maximilian. The harmoniously proportioned columns, at one time smooth, and untouched, were at the same time richly decorated with gilt stuccoes. Their faded appearance now lends them a quality of fine antiquity.
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  • A modern Italian woman walks past Agnolo de Cosimo Bronzino's painting of the Medici Eleanora of Toledo and son Giovanni C1545. The poster advertises the art exhibition by the celebrated painter Agnolo de Cosimo Bronzino. Agnolo de Cosimo Bronzino's painting of the Medici Eleanora of Toledo and son Giovanni C1545. Eleonora di Toledo (1522 – 1562), the daughter of Don Pedro Álvarez de Toledo, the Spanish viceroy of Naples. Eleonora was a patron of the new Jesuit order, and her private chapel in the Palazzo Vecchio  was decorated by Bronzino, who had originally arrived in Florence to provide festive decor for her wedding. She died, with her sons Giovanni and Garzia, in 1562, when she was only forty; all three of them were struck down by malaria while traveling to Pisa.
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  • From inside a large cube, we see Italian artist Michaelangelo Pistoletto's "Metrocubo d’Infinito" mirror installation at Palazzo Strozzi in the Medici Renaissance city of Florence. While the exterior of the cube looks like a gigantic rusty rubix-cube, inside is really a kind of infinity of self-reflection, covered entirely, floor to ceiling, in mirrors. And in the centre of the cube is another smaller cube made of grey stone. Young female visitors engage with the artwork and peer down to the floor where, just like all four walls and the ceiling, the repeating image stretches as far as the eye can focus.
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  • A local woman uses her mobile phone while sitting on steps near her bicycle of a public building in Florence's Piazza Di Annunziata. There is little colour in this image of history and urban decay but there is a peace and stillness amid an otherwise busy metropolis. Many citizens of this once-grand renaissance cultural capital use the moped and scooter and of course, the bike as urban transport though this form of transportation is particularly uncomfortable as the old stones in roads and pavements are rutted and very rough.
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  • A bureau de change shop offers deals and best prices to tourists and Italian passers-by on a Florence street. With the countries' flags on the far left and across, are the buy and sell rates for the Euro. Lit with dot matrix numbers, the list of decimal figures can be seen from across the street. A local-looking people walk past the store situated in a pedestrian street in the commercial centre of the city and we see the typical flag stones that line the pavements and roads.
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  • Traditional procession to mark the beginning of Carnival in the city of Florence. A parade in historical costume that starts at the Church of Santa Maria Novella and ends at the Church of Santa Croce.<br />
the city of Florence celebrated carnival twice annually. These festivals took place before Lent and during Calendimaggio, which celebrated the return of spring beginning on May 1 and ending on the feast day of John the Baptist, the patron saint of Florence. People from all classes of society gathered in the streets of Florence and participated in processions, parades, singing, dancing, and revelry.
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  • Traditional procession to mark the beginning of Carnival in the city of Florence. A parade in historical costume that starts at the Church of Santa Maria Novella and ends at the Church of Santa Croce.<br />
the city of Florence celebrated carnival twice annually. These festivals took place before Lent and during Calendimaggio, which celebrated the return of spring beginning on May 1 and ending on the feast day of John the Baptist, the patron saint of Florence. People from all classes of society gathered in the streets of Florence and participated in processions, parades, singing, dancing, and revelry.
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  • St Stephens Square. Traditional procession to mark the beginning of Carnival in the city of Florence. A parade in historical costume that starts at the Church of Santa Maria Novella and ends at the Church of Santa Croce in St Stephens Square.<br />
the city of Florence celebrated carnival twice annually. These festivals took place before Lent and during Calendimaggio, which celebrated the return of spring beginning on May 1 and ending on the feast day of John the Baptist, the patron saint of Florence. People from all classes of society gathered in the streets of Florence and participated in processions, parades, singing, dancing, and revelry.
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  • Traditional procession to mark the beginning of Carnival in the city of Florence. A parade in historical costume that starts at the Church of Santa Maria Novella and ends at the Church of Santa Croce.<br />
the city of Florence celebrated carnival twice annually. These festivals took place before Lent and during Calendimaggio, which celebrated the return of spring beginning on May 1 and ending on the feast day of John the Baptist, the patron saint of Florence. People from all classes of society gathered in the streets of Florence and participated in processions, parades, singing, dancing, and revelry.
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  • Cycle locks outside the Uffizi gallery, Florence. Florence has decided to stamp out a tradition which has recently drawn thousands of young lovers to the city's famous Ponte Vecchio bridge. Enamoured couples have been going to the bridge to attach padlocks to a bronze bust and the railings around it. The act is seen as symbolising the 'unbreakable' bonds uniting them.<br />
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The result, according to grumpy council officials, has been a proliferation of unsightly clusters of metal disfiguring the monument to Benvenuto Cellini, one of the city's most famous artistic sons. In the winter of 2011 the council set a team of metal cutters to work removing the 5,500 locks which had accumulated on the railings. Meanwhile, city police have been told to watch over the busy tourist site and to slap a 50-euro fine on anyone who tries to attach a lock. The work of removing the "lucchetti d'amore" took a long time because workmen were battling against a never-ending flow of loving couples who arrived in Florence and made straight for the Ponte Vecchio
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  • Cycle locks outside the Uffizi gallery, Florence. Florence has decided to stamp out a tradition which has recently drawn thousands of young lovers to the city's famous Ponte Vecchio bridge. Enamoured couples have been going to the bridge to attach padlocks to a bronze bust and the railings around it. The act is seen as symbolising the 'unbreakable' bonds uniting them.<br />
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The result, according to grumpy council officials, has been a proliferation of unsightly clusters of metal disfiguring the monument to Benvenuto Cellini, one of the city's most famous artistic sons. In the winter of 2011 the council set a team of metal cutters to work removing the 5,500 locks which had accumulated on the railings. Meanwhile, city police have been told to watch over the busy tourist site and to slap a 50-euro fine on anyone who tries to attach a lock. The work of removing the "lucchetti d'amore" took a long time because workmen were battling against a never-ending flow of loving couples who arrived in Florence and made straight for the Ponte Vecchio
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  • Cycle locks outside the Uffizi gallery, Florence. Florence has decided to stamp out a tradition which has recently drawn thousands of young lovers to the city's famous Ponte Vecchio bridge. Enamoured couples have been going to the bridge to attach padlocks to a bronze bust and the railings around it. The act is seen as symbolising the 'unbreakable' bonds uniting them.<br />
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The result, according to grumpy council officials, has been a proliferation of unsightly clusters of metal disfiguring the monument to Benvenuto Cellini, one of the city's most famous artistic sons. In the winter of 2011 the council set a team of metal cutters to work removing the 5,500 locks which had accumulated on the railings. Meanwhile, city police have been told to watch over the busy tourist site and to slap a 50-euro fine on anyone who tries to attach a lock. The work of removing the "lucchetti d'amore" took a long time because workmen were battling against a never-ending flow of loving couples who arrived in Florence and made straight for the Ponte Vecchio
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  • Cycle locks outside the Uffizi gallery, Florence. Florence has decided to stamp out a tradition which has recently drawn thousands of young lovers to the city's famous Ponte Vecchio bridge. Enamoured couples have been going to the bridge to attach padlocks to a bronze bust and the railings around it. The act is seen as symbolising the 'unbreakable' bonds uniting them.<br />
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The result, according to grumpy council officials, has been a proliferation of unsightly clusters of metal disfiguring the monument to Benvenuto Cellini, one of the city's most famous artistic sons. In the winter of 2011 the council set a team of metal cutters to work removing the 5,500 locks which had accumulated on the railings. Meanwhile, city police have been told to watch over the busy tourist site and to slap a 50-euro fine on anyone who tries to attach a lock. The work of removing the "lucchetti d'amore" took a long time because workmen were battling against a never-ending flow of loving couples who arrived in Florence and made straight for the Ponte Vecchio
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  • Menelaus Patroclus, Romano Greek statue in the Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence.<br />
Menelaus bearing the corpse of Patroclus. Marble, Roman copy of the Flavian Era after a Hellenistic original of the 3rd century BC, with modern restorations. Found in Rome; in the Medici collections in Florence, 1570; installed in the Loggia dei Lanzi since 1741.<br />
Piazza della Signoria is an L-shaped square in front of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy. It was named after the Palazzo della Signoria, also called Palazzo Vecchio.<br />
It is the focal point of the origin and of the history of the Florentine Republic and still maintains its reputation as the political hub of the city.It is the meeting place of Florentines as well as the numerous tourists, located near Ponte Vecchio and Piazza del Duomo and gateway to Uffizi Gallery.<br />
The Loggia dei Lanzi consists of wide arches open to the street, three bays wide and one bay deep. The arches rest on clustered pilasters with Corinthian capitals. The wide arches appealed so much to the Florentines, that Michelangelo even proposed that they should be continued all around the Piazza della Signoria<br />
It is effectively an open-air sculpture gallery of antique and Renaissance art including the Medici lions.
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  • Cycle locks outside the Uffizi gallery, Florence. Florence has decided to stamp out a tradition which has recently drawn thousands of young lovers to the city's famous Ponte Vecchio bridge. Enamoured couples have been going to the bridge to attach padlocks to a bronze bust and the railings around it. The act is seen as symbolising the 'unbreakable' bonds uniting them.<br />
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The result, according to grumpy council officials, has been a proliferation of unsightly clusters of metal disfiguring the monument to Benvenuto Cellini, one of the city's most famous artistic sons. In the winter of 2011 the council set a team of metal cutters to work removing the 5,500 locks which had accumulated on the railings. Meanwhile, city police have been told to watch over the busy tourist site and to slap a 50-euro fine on anyone who tries to attach a lock. The work of removing the "lucchetti d'amore" took a long time because workmen were battling against a never-ending flow of loving couples who arrived in Florence and made straight for the Ponte Vecchio
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  • Human statue outside the Uffizi gallery, Florence<br />
The Uffizi Gallery is a museum in Florence, Italy. It is one of the oldest and most famous art museums of the Western world.<br />
The narrow courtyard between the Uffizi's two wings creates the effect of a short, idealized street;
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  • Electric car, Florence. In a move designed to protect the heritage of Florence, the City Council and the Renault-Nissan Alliance have joined forces to promote the use of electric vehicles in the city.
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  • Statue of Dante Alighieri in Florence, St Stephens Square.<br />
Dante was born in Florence, Italy. The exact date of Dante's birth is not known, although it is generally believed to be around 1265.
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  • Human statue outside the Uffizi gallery, Florence<br />
The Uffizi Gallery is a museum in Florence, Italy. It is one of the oldest and most famous art museums of the Western world.<br />
The narrow courtyard between the Uffizi's two wings creates the effect of a short, idealized street;
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  • Tourists walking in the Piazza di San Giovanni nearby he Baptistery in Florence, part of the Duomo complex, which includes the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore and the Campanile. Historians believe that construction of the Baptistery, also known as Battistero San Giovanni or Saint John’s Baptistery, began in 1059, making it one of the oldest buildings in Florence.
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  • Tourists visiting Romano Greek statues in the Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence.<br />
Piazza della Signoria is an L-shaped square in front of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy. It was named after the Palazzo della Signoria, also called Palazzo Vecchio.<br />
It is the focal point of the origin and of the history of the Florentine Republic and still maintains its reputation as the political hub of the city.It is the meeting place of Florentines as well as the numerous tourists, located near Ponte Vecchio and Piazza del Duomo and gateway to Uffizi Gallery.<br />
The Loggia dei Lanzi consists of wide arches open to the street, three bays wide and one bay deep. The arches rest on clustered pilasters with Corinthian capitals. The wide arches appealed so much to the Florentines, that Michelangelo even proposed that they should be continued all around the Piazza della Signoria<br />
It is effectively an open-air sculpture gallery of antique and Renaissance art including the Medici lions.
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  • Tourists visiting Romano Greek statues in the Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence.<br />
Piazza della Signoria is an L-shaped square in front of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy. It was named after the Palazzo della Signoria, also called Palazzo Vecchio.<br />
It is the focal point of the origin and of the history of the Florentine Republic and still maintains its reputation as the political hub of the city.It is the meeting place of Florentines as well as the numerous tourists, located near Ponte Vecchio and Piazza del Duomo and gateway to Uffizi Gallery.<br />
The Loggia dei Lanzi consists of wide arches open to the street, three bays wide and one bay deep. The arches rest on clustered pilasters with Corinthian capitals. The wide arches appealed so much to the Florentines, that Michelangelo even proposed that they should be continued all around the Piazza della Signoria<br />
It is effectively an open-air sculpture gallery of antique and Renaissance art including the Medici lions.
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  • Hercules and Centaurs overlooking tourists visiting Romano Greek statues in the Loggia dei Lanzi, Florence.<br />
Piazza della Signoria is an L-shaped square in front of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy. It was named after the Palazzo della Signoria, also called Palazzo Vecchio.<br />
It is the focal point of the origin and of the history of the Florentine Republic and still maintains its reputation as the political hub of the city.It is the meeting place of Florentines as well as the numerous tourists, located near Ponte Vecchio and Piazza del Duomo and gateway to Uffizi Gallery.<br />
The Loggia dei Lanzi consists of wide arches open to the street, three bays wide and one bay deep. The arches rest on clustered pilasters with Corinthian capitals. The wide arches appealed so much to the Florentines, that Michelangelo even proposed that they should be continued all around the Piazza della Signoria<br />
It is effectively an open-air sculpture gallery of antique and Renaissance art including the Medici lions.
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  • Tourists visiting Romano Greek statues in the Piazza della Sinoria, Florence.<br />
Piazza della Signoria is an L-shaped square in front of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy. It was named after the Palazzo della Signoria, also called Palazzo Vecchio.<br />
It is the focal point of the origin and of the history of the Florentine Republic and still maintains its reputation as the political hub of the city.It is the meeting place of Florentines as well as the numerous tourists, located near Ponte Vecchio and Piazza del Duomo and gateway to Uffizi Gallery.<br />
The Loggia dei Lanzi consists of wide arches open to the street, three bays wide and one bay deep. The arches rest on clustered pilasters with Corinthian capitals. The wide arches appealed so much to the Florentines, that Michelangelo even proposed that they should be continued all around the Piazza della Signoria<br />
It is effectively an open-air sculpture gallery of antique and Renaissance art including the Medici lions.
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  • Parked motorbikes with classical graffiti, Florence.
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  • Electronic board in currency exchange shop, Florence, Italy
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  • Dead end roadsign with Jesus on the cross graffiti, Florence.
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  • Clowns on the street in Florence selling tickets for a children's show
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  • Statuettes of David by Michaelangello on sale in a tourist stall in Florence, Italy.
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  • Images of the famous painting of Venus printed on umbrella alongside T-shirts on sale in a tourist stall in Florence, Italy.
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  • Students with umbrellas crossing St Stephens Square, Florence, in the rain.
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  • Portrait painter outside the Uffizi gallery. The Uffizi Gallery is a museum in Florence, Italy. It is one of the oldest and most famous art museums of the Western world. The narrow courtyard between the Uffizi's two wings creates the effect of a short, idealized street;
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  • The painted ceiling on the dome of Piazza del Duomo, Florence, Italy. The cathedral was built at the end of the 13th century by Filippo Brunelleschi and then the dome was added in the 15th century.
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  • A priests hand behind his back watching a traditional procession to mark the beginning of Viareggio Carnival in the city of Florence. St Stephens Square.
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  • The giant nudes of Baccio Bandinelli's Hercules & Cacus and Michelangelo's David stand in Piazza della Signoria beneath the fortress palace Palazzo Vecchio. Piazza della Signoria is an L-shaped square in front of the Palazzo Vecchio ("Old Palace") which is the town hall of the city. This massive, Romanesque, crenulated fortress-palace is among the most impressive town halls of Tuscany. Overlooking the square with its copy of Michelangelo's David statue as well the gallery of statues in the adjacent Loggia dei Lanzi, it is one of the most significant public places in Italy, and it host cultural points and museums.
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  • Portraits & photo booth with images of Obama & Mona Lisa outside the Uffizi gallery
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  • A homemade blackboard urging tourists to enter an Irish Bar stands in the road of a Florence side-street. Apparently beer and alcohol helps ugly people have sex and has done so since Neolithic times. A rough illustration of bottles line the bottom of the writing and in the background we see young men walking away into the distance. It is evening and customers are eating in an outdoor restaurant tent as the blue glow from the bar spreads onto the pavement.
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  • In a narrow street in Florence, a parking attendant stops to check the windscreen (windshield) of a Fiat 500 car. Squeezed into a space that only a car of this length can occupy, the lady warden bends to inspect the owner's city permit. Traffic police in Florence issue approximately 90 tickets every minute, 1,253 tickets a day so a motorist in Florence receives a traffic violation every 40 seconds, according to official figures. Ticket fines average about 140 euro per motorist bringing about 52 million to city hall each year, making it one of Italy's most heaviest fined cities. Officials note that the money entering the municipal budget through traffic fines has tripled in the last 10 years. The Fiat 500 (Cinquecento) designed by Dante Giacosa was produced by Fiat between 1957 and 1975.
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  • Statue of Florence Nightingale on Waterloo Place, London. Florence Nightingale was a celebrated English nurse, writer and statistician. An Anglican, Nightingale believed that God had called her to be a nurse. She came to prominence for her pioneering work in nursing during the Crimean War, where she tended to wounded soldiers. She was dubbed "The Lady with the Lamp" after her habit of making rounds at night.
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  • Statue of Florence Nightingale on Waterloo Place, London. Florence Nightingale was a celebrated English nurse, writer and statistician. An Anglican, Nightingale believed that God had called her to be a nurse. She came to prominence for her pioneering work in nursing during the Crimean War, where she tended to wounded soldiers. She was dubbed "The Lady with the Lamp" after her habit of making rounds at night.
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  • A women smiles as she and a colleague prepare a lunch of Chicken and beef casserole in a vilage outside Florence, Italy
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  • Tens of thousands of health workers, activists and members of the public protested against austerity and cuts in the NHS National Health Service on March 4th 2017 in London, United Kingdom. A woman dressed as Florence Nightingale holds a placard saying No more austerity
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  • Florence Khalumbia (46) With daughter Alice (7 ) lives just 50 metres from the “California” dumpsite in a one-bedroom hut with her five children. None of the children go to school – she feels that it’s better that they stay home and help their family to earn a living. Alice, the youngest, is seven years old, and she spends her days sorting through rubbish with her 14-year-old brother Allan Karani. They’ve never had any formal education and neither can read or write. Florence does want her children to improve their situation, but so that they can look after her. The family manages to earn just over a dollar a day from sorting rubbish at the dumpsite but that is not enough to buy food for the family.
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  • Alice ( 7)  has her hair  braided by a friend on the dump in a quiet moment between trucks arriving . Alice works every day at the dump with her brother Alan sorting through rubbish for recycling. Florence Her mother lives just 50 metres from the “California” dumpsite in a one-bedroom hut with her five children. None of the children go to school – she feels that it’s better that they stay home and help their family to earn a living. They’ve never had any formal education and neither can read or write. Florence does want her children to improve their situation, but so that they can look after her. The family manages to earn just over a dollar a day from sorting rubbish at the dumpsite but that is not enough to buy food for the family.
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  • Three time Olympic silver medallist, David Florence at Lee Valley White Water Centre with Team GBs Canoe Slalom Team on the 7th June 2019 in London in the United Kingdom. Mens slalom canoeists, David Florence is one of the world’s top mens slalom canoeists. He is a three time Olympic silver medallist, a three time World Champion and has won more than 25 World Cup medals including 9 golds.
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  • Three time Olympic silver medallist, David Florence at Lee Valley White Water Centre with Team GBs Canoe Slalom Team on the 7th June 2019 in London in the United Kingdom. Mens slalom canoeists, David Florence is one of the world’s top mens slalom canoeists. He is a three time Olympic silver medallist, a three time World Champion and has won more than 25 World Cup medals including 9 golds.
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  • Girls visit a Renaissance art exhibition at London's British Museum. Above them and between pillars is a giant poster called Head of a Woman (1470s) by Andrea del Verrocchio born Andrea di Michele di Francesco de' Cioni, an Italian sculptor, goldsmith  and painter who worked at the court of Lorenzo de' Medici in Florence. His pupils included Leonardo da Vinci, Pietro Perugino and Lorenzo di Credi, but he also influenced Michelangelo. The British Museum's collection of Italian Renaissance drawings is so fragile that its masterpieces are exhibited only once in a generation. About half of the works came from Florence in partnership with the Uffizi and sponsored by BP (British Petroleum). The 100 or so works span the period 1400-1510 by artists including Jacopo and Gentile Bellini, Botticelli, Filippo Lippi, Mantegna, Michelangelo and Raphael.
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  • Tourist visitors sit beneath and walk past the columns of London's British Museum. Above them and between pillars is a giant poster called Head of a Woman (1470s) by Andrea del Verrocchio born Andrea di Michele di Francesco de' Cioni, an Italian sculptor, goldsmith  and painter who worked at the court of Lorenzo de' Medici in Florence. His pupils included Leonardo da Vinci, Pietro Perugino and Lorenzo di Credi, but he also influenced Michelangelo. The British Museum's collection of Italian Renaissance drawings is so fragile that its masterpieces are exhibited only once in a generation. About half of the works came from Florence in partnership with the Uffizi and sponsored by BP (British Petroleum). The 100 or so works span the period 1400-1510 by artists including Jacopo and Gentile Bellini, Botticelli, Filippo Lippi, Mantegna, Michelangelo and Raphael.
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  • Alice (7) has her hair braided by a friend on the dump in a quiet moment between trucks arriving . Alice works every day at the dump with her brother Alan sorting through rubbish for recycling. Florence Her mother lives just 50 metres from the “California” dumpsite in a one-bedroom hut with her five children. None of the children go to school – she feels that it’s better that they stay home and help their family to earn a living. They’ve never had any formal education and neither can read or write. Florence does want her children to improve their situation, but so that they can look after her. The family manages to earn just over a dollar a day from sorting rubbish at the dumpsite but that is not enough to buy food for the family.
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  • As a little boy drifts off to sleep, a father with a painted face holds a giant union jack hand as British fans cheer on their hero David Florence during the canoe slalom heats at the Lee Valley White Water Centre, north east London, on day 3 of the London 2012 Olympic Games.
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  • Golliwog characters on sale in a junk shop in Birmingham, England, United Kingdom. The golliwog, golliwogg or golly is a black fictional character created by Florence Kate Upton that appears in childrens books in the late 19th century usually depicted as a type of rag doll. It was reproduced, both by commercial and hobby toy-makers as a childrens toy called the golliwog, and had great popularity in the UK into the 1970s. The image of the doll has become the subject of controversy. Whilst some people see the dolls as innocuous toys, its depiction of black people is seen by many as racist.
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  • The face of 'Ginevra de' Benci' in the gardens of at Chateau de Clos Lucé, home to Leonardo da Vinci for the last 3 years of his life and now a celebration of his life and achievements, Amboise, France. Ginevra de’ Benci (born c. 1458) was an aristocrat from fifteenth-century Florence, admired for her intelligence by Florentine contemporaries. She is the subject of a portrait painting by Leonardo da Vinci. The oil-on-wood portrait was acquired by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., United States, in 1967, for US$5 million. Here, a cropped version shows her among the natural beauty of da Vinci's French home gardens. Da Vinci lived here until his death in 1519.
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  • Florence Roseberry-Haynes (Cinderella) with Olivia Braddock (Prince Charming) with Mandalorian Mercs (Starwars) attending the London Film and Comic Con LFCC is a convention held annually in London that focuses on films, cult television and comics. The convention holds a large dealers hall selling movie, comic and science fiction related memorabiliaand original film props, along with free guest talks, professional photoshoots, autograph sessions, displays. Many of the visitors / attendeesarrive dressed up as their favourite comic and sci-fi characters in the most outlandish costumes which draws from the award-winning formula of innovative gameplay.
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  • Florence serves out the lunch at Graissa Road Primary School. Her wages are paid by AFCIC (Action for children in conflict). The majority of the pupils are from the Kiandutu slum. The school has 800 children.
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  • An artist is incongruously enclosed in roadworks barriers at the busy junction of Piccadilly Circus in London's West End. Painting with an easel and applying careful brush strokes amid the noise and chaos of this busy traffic junction in the capital. A young man walks past barely noticing the artist as he strides through the heart of London's west end. But on the youth's t-shirt is a modern interpretation (wearing glasses and apparently spitting liquid into a cup) of Hans Memling's "Portrait of a Man with a Coin of the Emperor Nero (Bernardo Bembo)" German-born artist Jan van Mimnelinghe (Hans Memling, c. 1435-94) was well known all over Europe. During his lifetime, he painted commissions not only for the Burgundian Dukes, but also for patrons in Germany, Austria, Venice, Florence and London.
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  • Florence Roseberry-Haynes (Cinderella) with Olivia Braddock (Prince Charming) attending the London Film and Comic Con LFCC is a convention held annually in London that focuses on films, cult television and comics. The convention holds a large dealers hall selling movie, comic and science fiction related memorabiliaand original film props, along with free guest talks, professional photoshoots, autograph sessions, displays. Many of the visitors / attendeesarrive dressed up as their favourite comic and sci-fi characters in the most outlandish costumes which draws from the award-winning formula of innovative gameplay.
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  • A fashion conscious male with a small girl statue credited to the 19th century Florence-born artist Raffaello Romanelli. In afternoon sunlight, the young man walks near the corner of Albermarle Street and Piccadilly, London W1, Westminster. His sense of style and confidence shows in the way he strides along the street surrounded by other Londoners whereas the classical statuette looks on, admiring the passers-by, her bare breast and wearing the stylish jewellery of the era.
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  • A young male admires a sexy girl watched be the statuette of a small woman credited to the 19th century Florence-born artist Raffaello Romanelli. In afternoon sunlight, the girl is on the corner of Albermarle Street and Piccadilly, London W1, Westminster. Oblivious to the attention on her by an unknown man, the girl in blue walks fast along the pavement listening to her portable device, a career girl in the fast modern city - the opposite of the classical figure in the rug and carpet shop window who bares a breast while wearing jewellery. The female form is on show to the male of the species.
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