Example sentences for: florentine

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  • While Florentine art developed its formidable intellectual and emotional power, the tone of Sienese painting — Simone Martini, the Lorenzettis, even the Mannerist Sodoma — remained gentle and delicate, bathed in the light and color of its surrounding countryside.

  • There were once more than 70 towers — erected as symbols of its merchants’ power and prestige — until the town’s Florentine conquerors ordered them dismantled in the 14th century.

  • The truly mind-boggling variety of that collection begins to register as you pass the 104-ft- (32-m-) long Roman mosaic swimming pool, complete with Greek colonnade and a copy of Donatello’s Florentine statue of David.

  • The décor celebrates Florentine power — Vasari frescoes of victories over Siena and Pisa and Michelangelo’s Victory statue.

  • 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.


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