The Boboli Gardens (Italian: Giardino di Boboli /’bo.bo.li/) is a historical park of the city of Florence that was opened to the public in 1766. Originally...
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Land on the Boboli hill at the rear of the palazzo was acquired in order to create a large formal park and gardens, today known as the Boboli Gardens. The...
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The Palazzo Vecchio (Italian pronunciation: [paˈlattso ˈvɛkkjo] "Old Palace") is the town hall of Florence, Italy. It overlooks the Piazza della Signoria...
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The Boboli obelisk, previously called the Obelisco Mediceo, is an ancient Egyptian granite obelisk, which was moved in the 18th century from Rome to Florence...
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Palazzo Strozzi is a palace in Florence, Italy. The construction of the palace was begun in 1489 by Benedetto da Maiano, for Filippo Strozzi the Elder...
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dwarves of the Medici court at the Palazzo Pitti. He is immortalized by a statue from 1560 by Valerio Cioli in the Boboli Gardens where his nude likeness...
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Palazzo Gondi is a palace in Florence, Italy, located a block from Piazza della Signoria. It was built in 1490 under design by Giuliano da Sangallo, who...
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French gardens of the mid-16th century. Two famous grottoes in the Boboli Gardens of Palazzo Pitti were begun by Vasari and completed by Ammanati and Buontalenti...
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of modern art dating from the 18th century. Adjoining the palace are the Boboli Gardens, elaborately landscaped and with numerous sculptures. There are...
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project for the new city of Livorno, the decoration of Palazzo Pitti and the Boboli Gardens with the famous grotto, as well as the Parco di Pratolino of which...
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provided as well as many sculptures for garden grottos and fountains in the Boboli Gardens of Florence and at the Villa di Pratolino, and the bronze doors...
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by Niccolò Tribolo, who later designed the Boboli Gardens for Cosimo's Florentine new residence, the Palazzo Pitti. Each significant member of the Medici...
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who is also immortalized in Valerio Cioli's Fontana del Bacchino at the Boboli Gardens in Florence. The work was commissioned from Bronzino by Cosimo....
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Giardino dell'Hotel Cipriani (Venice) Giardino di Boboli (Florence) Giardino di Ninfa (Latina) Giardino di Palazzo del Principe Giardino di Villa Gamberaia (Firenze)...
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perspective are: Villa Medici del Trebbio Villa Medicea di Cafaggiolo Palazzo Pitti, the Boboli Gardens and Fort Belvedere Villa Medici di Castello Villa Medici...
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at musée du Nouveau Monde, La Rochelle (France); Pegasus, in Giardino di Boboli; tondo dedicated to Arnolfo di Cambio in Duomo di Firenze; bust of Cosimo...
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del Cinquecento, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. Ciborium in Santo Spirito, Florence. Among his numerous allegorical statues in the Boboli Gardens, Florence:...
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the Lung'Arno, Cascine, and the Boboli Gardens. Palazzo Pinti is the Bowens' home in Florence. The idea for the Palazzo Pinti may have come from a real...
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worked on the Boboli Gardens, constructing the Grotto of Vulcan (Grotticina di Vulcano, 1617) and laying out the second axis of the Boboli Gardens, at right...
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to the Palazzo Vecchio via the Vasari Corridor. There were also passages connecting it to the Pitti Palace and paths leading through the Boboli Gardens...
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Vecchio we arrive at the Oltrarno district with the Pitti Palace and the Boboli Gardens. Still in Oltrarno, there are the Basilica of the Holy Spirit by...
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marble. The conceit of turtle bases was originally used in the Boboli Obelisk. Palazzo Spinelli, Repertorio delle Architetture Civile di Firenze, entry...
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Arboreto Pascul Arboretum Apenninicum Bardini Gardens Biennale Gardens Boboli Gardens Cortile del Belvedere Ducal Palace of Colorno Ducal Palace of Sassuolo...
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Tasso Palazzo Uguccioni c. 1550 Church of San Giovannino dei Cavalieri c. 1550 Palazzo Niccolini c. 1550 Baccio d'Agnolo and Giovanni Dosio Boboli Gardens...
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architect of the Grand Dukes of Tuscany at Palazzo Pitti, where he led the completion of the Giardini di Boboli, building the Isolotto and the steps of the...
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People's Plaza Miami, Mizner Park Florence, Piazza Pitti- Giardino di Boboli-Giardino delle Scuderie Reali- Complesso Le Pagliere Cannes, La croisette...
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Italian garden (section Boboli Gardens)
17th century, when it was already 100 years old. The Boboli Gardens, in Italian Giardino di Boboli, form a famous park in Florence, Italy, that is home...
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with original stones raised from the Arno or taken from the same quarry of Boboli gardens, under the direction of architect Riccardo Gizdulich, who examined...
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the Roman marble that served as model, was originally intended for the Boboli Garden, then moved to the Mercato Nuovo in Florence, Italy; the fountain...
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La Specola (redirect from Palazzo Torrigani, Florence)
stuffed hippopotamus (a 17th-century Medici pet, which once lived in the Boboli Gardens), but also a collection of anatomical waxes (including those by...
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