Thursday, August 1, 2013

Chapter 53

The Gates are open to you.


 Il Duomo


The Bell Tower

The octagonal baptistry of San Giovanni


The Biblical scenes of the gates of Paradise 


the Gilded bronze doors


Chapter 52

Love Lost

 The tomb of Beatrice


Letters from the brokenhearted


Church of Dante


 Doorway to the church


 The small chapel


The altarpiece-- The Madonna and Four Saints

Friday, May 17, 2013

Chapter 51

Dante's House.

Museum of Casa de Dante

Chapter 49

The getaway.

Exit door from Duke of Athens Stairway


Another view

Chapter 46

In the Attic.

Palazzo Vecchio attic


Chapter 45

Secret passages

Hall of Geographical Maps

Armenia

Study of the Duchess Bianca Cappello 

Secret window


Thursday, May 16, 2013

Chapter 39

Busted.

Dante Death Mask


Chapter 36

Pieces of the puzzle.

Lo Studiolo

For the Love of God- Damien Hirst


Chapter 35

Seeking and finding.

Vasari raised the roof . . .

. . . which allowed him to install transoms

Genius of Victory Michelangelo

Battle of Marciano


Chapter 34

Next move.

The Palazzo Vecchio

Manly statuary

Cafe Rivoire

Medici Lions


The Hall of the Five Hundred


Chapter 33

"Evil exists in the world not to create despair, but activity."

Thomas Robert Malthus

Chapter 32

The Vasari Corridor





The Ponte Vecchio

Dante quote plaque


Chapter 30

Escape!

Bathing Venus

Vasari Corridor


Chapters 27, 29

We're trapped!

Braccio di Bartolo

Buontalenti Grotto

Grotto figures

Ceiling of the grotto


Chapter 26

Boboli Gardens again.

Lorenzi's Neptune

Pitti Palace

Amphitheater

Ramses Obelisk


Chapter 25

Hidden things.

Giorgio Vasari

Coral Cave

Camera Drone

Perseus in the Isolotto

 The Viottolone

A hooped tunnel