Example sentences for: florentine

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  • His Flemish contemporary Hugo van der Goes is more down-to-earth in the realism of his huge triptych Adoration of the Shepherds (1478), which influenced Florentine painters like Ghirlandaio.

  • The Florentine artist was just 25, and justly proud enough to append his signature (the only surviving example), visible on the Madonna’s sash . Since a religious fanatic attacked it with a hammer in 1972, the statue is protected by bullet-proof glass.

  • The intersection of Via Vittorio Emanuele and Via Maqueda is the town’s historic center, Quattro Canti (Four Corners), in a characteristic setting of two great Baroque churches (San Giuseppe dei Teatini and Santa Caterina), the monumental 16th-century Pretoria Fountain by a Florentine sculptor, and the piazza of the same name.

  • On the second floor, the Sala dei Gigli (Hall of the Lilies) is brilliantly decorated in blues and golds with Florentine heraldry and vivid Ghirlandaio frescoes of Roman and early Christian history.

  • Upstairs, the Salone dei Cinquecento was built in 1495 for the short-lived Florentine Republic before serving as Duke Cosimo’s throne room and, three centuries later, the chamber of Italy’s first national parliament.


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