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The following is a brief description of the historic buildings in Florence. [10] [2] [11] The E.N. Fish and Co. Store Building – built in 1867 and located at 420 Quartz St. The mercantile firm of E.N. Fish & Co., with Joseph Collingwood as partner and local manager, opened Florence's first store in this building in 1868.
Florence (O'odham: S-auppag) is a town in Pinal County, Arizona, United States. [3] Florence, which is the county seat of Pinal County, is one of the oldest towns in that county and includes a National Historic District with over 25 buildings listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The population of Florence was 26,785 at the 2020 ...
Building Date Architect Notes Badia di San Salvatore: 10th century: Scandicci: Badia Fiorentina: 10th century and 1282–1335: Church of Santi Apostoli: 10-11th century: Baptistery of San Giovanni: 11th-14th century: Church of San Miniato al Monte: 1018–1207: Cathedral of Fiesole: 1024–1028: Fiesole: Badia Fiesolana: 1025–1028: Fiesole ...
Palazzo Strozzi is an example of civil architecture with its rusticated stone, [5] inspired by the Palazzo Medici, but with more harmonious proportions.Unlike the Medici Palace, which was sited on a corner lot, and thus has only two sides, this building, surrounded on all four sides by streets, is a free-standing structure.
This is a List of National Historic Landmarks in Arizona. There are 47 National Historic Landmarks (NHLs) in Arizona, counting Hoover Dam that spans from Nevada and is listed in Nevada by the National Park Service (NPS), and Yuma Crossing and Associated Sites , which is listed by the NPS in Arizona, and overlaps into California.
Visitors observing Michelangelo’s Doni Tondo.Uffizi is ranked as the 5th most visited art museum in the world, with around five million visitors annually.. The building of the Uffizi complex was begun by Giorgio Vasari in 1560 for Cosimo I de' Medici as a means to consolidate his administrative control of the various committees, agencies, and guilds established in Florence's Republican past ...
During the Renaissance revival of classical culture, ancient Roman elements were often replicated in architecture, both built and imagined in paintings. In the Palazzo Medici Riccardi, the rusticated masonry and the cornice had precedents in Roman practice, yet in totality it looks distinctly Florentine, unlike any known Roman building.
The Basilica of San Lorenzo is considered a milestone in the development of Renaissance architecture. The basilica has a complicated building history. The project was begun around 1419, under the direction of Filippo Brunelleschi. Lack of funds slowed the construction and forced changes to the original design.