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! FLORENCE: LIVING BEAUTY Where Florence is the capital city of Tuscany Region. It is the most populated city in its Region. Weather This city has a very humid subtropical climate, with hot The capital city of Toscana (Tuscany), Firenze (Florence) is and humid summers and cool the mecca of art, history, and culture for not only the winters. region, but also all of Europe. Known as, ‘the birthplace of the Italian Renaissance,’ Florence possesses some of the greatest works of art of all time, from artists like Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Giotto, and Dante Alighieri, to name a few. Flanked by sandstone hills of the south and foothills sprawling out from the Apennine Mountains, Florence has an all-season splendor that adds to any vacation, any time of the year. Though the temperatures fluctuate greatly from summer to winter, each season has something to offer. The best time visit is spring to early summer and autumn, especially November during the grape and olive harvest. December can be also be a surprisingly pleasant time to visit with its crisp air, sunny days, and very few tourists. Florence is the heart of Renaissance Italy and one of Italy www.helloitalytours.com !1 ! Food Specialities and Europe’s most visited cities. Everything from interesting museums, beautiful churches like the famed Il Duomo di Firenze, and priceless works of Bistecca alla Fiorentina: This historical artwork can be found in Florence. flagship Tuscan steak is made from the region’s Chianina breed of cattle which are known for their ACTIVITIES AND TOURS tenderness and flavor. Typical of Italian cuisine, simplicity rules this Home to some of the world’s most beautiful landscapes, dish. Seasoned with salt and Florence is the perfect place to take in the country air, pepper, rosemary and then sites, art, and even sports. There are many tours and cooked in olive oil, the rich activities sure to please everyone, including: velvety texture of this filling steak Bicycling: Bike through the countryside of Florence, is perfect for any meat lover. tasting some wine along the way and enjoying the picturesque sunset off the rolling hills. Ribollita: With peasant origins, this flavorful bread and vegetable Golf: There is nothing like playing the back nine on the soup that literally translates to re- boiled, is a hearty staple of the rolling hills of the Florentine countryside. Enjoy tree-lined region, and a must have while in courses with the added bonus of an unadulterated view Florence. as far as the eye can see. There are two local clubs where you can practice your stroke. The first, Golf Club Montelupo offers a tight course of nine holes right on the banks of the Arno. The second, Golf Club Ugolino is an 18-hole course located in an olive grove. Football: A source of national pride in Italy, football (soccer) can be watched and enjoyed here. Florence’s national football team, the Serie A. Fiorentina, is among the best in Italy’s premier league. On Florence’s patron saint day (June 24) one can attend a medieval version of the game with participants dressed in medieval costumes. Rowing: Interested in learning a new activity or reliving your college rowing days? Florence has a wonderful rowing club on the Arno River called Societa Canottieri Firenze. Tennis: Public tennis courts are situated at the Circolo Carraia, Via Monti alle Croci. Other courts are at Circolo del Tennis, Via Scandicci Alto, and Via dela Robbia Impruneta. www.helloitalytours.com !2 ! Shopping: Florence has some of the finest Florence brings you to the renowned shopping in Europe. In Florence you’ll find Accademia Gallery where you can admire leather goods, paper goods, jewelry, and the famous David by Michelangelo, as well plenty of souvenirs and art productions. as other works by the great artist. Florence has a number of open-air markets selling food, clothing, and antiques. The most famous is around Piazza San Lorenzo. PLACES TO VISIT Mercato Centrale is the perfect place to find fresh cooking produce and restaurants, or Galleria degli Uffizi: The most visited take a leisurely stroll through the streets and museum in Florence, the Uffizi palace was window shop. designed and begun in 1560 by the architect Giorgio Vasari. Built in the shape of a Music: A musical centre during the middle horseshoe extending from Piazza della ages, music and the performing arts remain Signoria to the Arno River, and linked by a an important part of Florence culture. Home bridge over the street with Palazzo Vecchio, of the first Opera Daphne (1958), and the the Uffizi were intended to house the first piano, Florence has a rich music a d m i n i s t r a t i v e scene. offices (Uffizi) of Cooking Class: It is said, the best way the Grand Duchy. to experience a culture is through F r o m t h e food. Join a small, intimate group of beginning, food lovers in an old palazzo in the city h o w e v e r , t h e center. Guided by a top cooking Medici had a few school, you will learn to cook a classic rooms on the third four-course Tuscan meal. Once you’ve floor where they completed your dishes, it’s time to housed the finest enjoy them, paired with a good Tuscan w o r k s o f t h e i r wine, of course. This educational, fun, collections. Two and friendly atmosphere is sure to centuries later, in teach you skills that you can take home 1737, the palace to impress your friends and loved and their collection ones. were left to the city b y A n n a M a r i a Walking City Tour: Drive along the L u i s a , t h e l a s t romantic Viale dei Colli up to Piazzale Medici heir, and today houses one of the Michelangelo, and enjoy a view of the city, world’s greatest art galleries. one of the most beautiful panoramas in the world. The tour will proceed through the old Piazza della Signoria and Palazzo Vecchio: city centre to the outdoor Duomo complex Florence’s most famous square is Piazza where you can see the Baptistery with its della Signoria, the heart of the historic center bronze doors including the famous Porta del and a free open-air sculpture exhibit. The Paradiso, and the visit of the Cathedral with Loggia della Signoria holds some important the magnificent Cupola del Brunelleschi and statues including a copy of Michelangelo’s Giotto’s bell tower. Finally, a short walk David. The piazza has been Florence’s through the historic streets of the heart of political center since the middle ages and www.helloitalytours.com !3 ! Florence’s town hall. The medieval Palazzo paintings and sculptures, porcelain, silver Vecchio sits on the piazza filled with and period costumes. The rooms contain elaborately decorated public rooms and works by Raphael, Rubens, Titian, private apartments. Caravaggio, Andrea del Sarto, and countless others. Take an adventure around the Pitti Santa Maria Novella: A 13th century church Palace to discover the Baroque Boboli built in the Gothic-Romanesque style, with Gardens. white and green marble, Santa Maria Novella holds some of the finest works of art in our Galleria dell’Accademia: If you’re looking to history— the frescoes by Masaccio portraying see works of famed artists like Michelangelo, the Holy Trinity, the Crucifix by Brunelleschi, this is the place to visit. Founded in 1784 by and the one by Giotto. the Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo, uniting all the painting schools into one academy, you Ponte Vecchio: The oldest bridge in can explore the hallways of this gallery, Florence, Ponte Vecchio’s first construction which include the famous statue of David. existed before the 11th century, but was destroyed by a flood of the Arno. The bridge Bargello: Once a prison in the 13th century, was rebuilt in solid stone in 1345. turned national museum, Bargello is filled Its banks are still full of goldsmiths’, with some of the best sculptures from the silversmiths’, and jewelers’ laboratories Tuscan Renaissance era. Some of the works whose art has been passed down from of art in the Bargella include: David by generation to generation. Donatello, Mercury by Gianbologna, and the bust of Brutus by Michelangelo. Palazzo Pitti: A massive palace that would take days to see all there is to see, The Pitti Archeological Museum: Another collection Palace hosts several important collections of of works from the Medici family, especially www.helloitalytours.com !4 Sunset in Florence ! Cosimo il Vecchio, is comprised of objects The San Lorenzo Market: Explore this multi- from the Etruscan period— terracotta floor market situated in the heart of a 19th ornaments and sculptures in marble and century iron and glass building. Entering in bronze, including the Chimera di Arezzo and on the ground floor there are several flower l’Arringatore. stalls, fruit and vegetable stalls where all the Be sure to also see the impressive Egyptian local seasonal produce is displayed. On the exhibit donated by another historical family, top floor, enjoy delicatessens selling the Lorena. Florentine and Tuscan delicacies, where you can also stop for a bite to eat. Casa Buonarroti: This palace was renovated in the 17th century by Michelangelo Basilica di San Lorenzo: Home to world Buonarroti, also known as ‘il giovane,’ who famous works of art, including the two decorated all the interior area of the building pulpits built by Donatello, The Biblioteca on his own, as a tribute to his ancestor.
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  • Gender Dynamics in Renaissance Florence Mary D

    Gender Dynamics in Renaissance Florence Mary D

    Early Modern Women: An Interdisciplinary Journal Vol. 11, No. 1 • Fall 2016 The Cloister and the Square: Gender Dynamics in Renaissance Florence Mary D. Garrard eminist scholars have effectively unmasked the misogynist messages of the Fstatues that occupy and patrol the main public square of Florence — most conspicuously, Benvenuto Cellini’s Perseus Slaying Medusa and Giovanni da Bologna’s Rape of a Sabine Woman (Figs. 1, 20). In groundbreaking essays on those statues, Yael Even and Margaret Carroll brought to light the absolutist patriarchal control that was expressed through images of sexual violence.1 The purpose of art, in this way of thinking, was to bolster power by demonstrating its effect. Discussing Cellini’s brutal representation of the decapitated Medusa, Even connected the artist’s gratuitous inclusion of the dismembered body with his psychosexual concerns, and the display of Medusa’s gory head with a terrifying female archetype that is now seen to be under masculine control. Indeed, Cellini’s need to restage the patriarchal execution might be said to express a subconscious response to threat from the female, which he met through psychological reversal, by converting the dangerous female chimera into a feminine victim.2 1 Yael Even, “The Loggia dei Lanzi: A Showcase of Female Subjugation,” and Margaret D. Carroll, “The Erotics of Absolutism: Rubens and the Mystification of Sexual Violence,” The Expanding Discourse: Feminism and Art History, ed. Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard (New York: HarperCollins, 1992), 127–37, 139–59; and Geraldine A. Johnson, “Idol or Ideal? The Power and Potency of Female Public Sculpture,” Picturing Women in Renaissance and Baroque Italy, ed.