Example sentences for: calzaiuoli

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  • Flanked by some of the city’s most stylish fashion boutiques and shoe stores, the quarter’s main street retains the commercial tradition of its medieval name, Via de’ Calzaiuoli (stocking- and shoe-makers).

  • Look for Ghiberti’s vigorous bronze of the city’s patron St. John (east wall, on the Via de’ Calzaiuoli); St. Matthew, the bankers’ tax-collector turned Apostle (west); Donatello’s St. George, the armorers’ dragon-killer (north, a bronze cast of a marble original in the Bargello); St. Mark, whose vividly sculpted robes do credit to the linen-drapers he protects (south); and Nanni di Banco’s outstanding conspiratorial group of Four Crowned Martyrs for the sculptors’ own guild of stonemasons and wood-workers (north).

  • The thoroughfares for the smarter fashion boutiques, for men and women, are Via de’ Tornabuoni, Via della Vigna Nuova and Via de’ Calzaiuoli.


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