Florentino Collection (#4)

Pioneers of Italian aviation: Florence. Campo di Marte. The old parade ground offer the first provisional hospitality
5313739 Pioneers of Italian aviation: Florence. Campo di Marte. The old parade ground offer the first provisional hospitality to the aerial machines. 1910; SeM Studio/UIG

Naval battle between Florence and Pisa. Detail. Cinquecento living room ceiling
BEN5477020 Naval battle between Florence and Pisa. Detail. Cinquecento living room ceiling. Mannerist painting by Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574), 1565

Italy Tuscany Florence - Sculpture by Benvenuto Cellini 1500-1571 - Sculptor, Founder, Drawer and Gold-Plated
JEB4947633 Italy Tuscany Florence - Sculpture by Benvenuto Cellini 1500-1571 - Sculptor, Founder, Drawer and Gold-Plated; (add.info)

Representation of Cristoforo Landino (1425-1498) Italian humanist teaching beautiful letters at the Neoplatonician
ELD4951573 Representation of Cristoforo Landino (1425-1498) Italian humanist teaching beautiful letters at the Neoplatonician academy (Accademia neoplatonica) (Neoplatonism mediceen)

Sugar apple
5855239 Sugar apple; (add.info.: Sugar apple, Annona squamosa. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Jussieu's "Dictionary of Natural Science, " Florence, Italy, 1837)

Horned grebe and great northern loon
5855235 Horned grebe and great northern loon; (add.info.: Horned or Slavonian grebe, Podiceps auritus, and great northern loon, Gavia immer)

Winged-stem passion flower
5855234 Winged-stem passion flower; (add.info.: Winged-stem passion flower, Passiflora alata, with fruit. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Jussieu's "Dictionary of)

Southern cassowary and emu head
5855230 Southern cassowary and emu head; (add.info.: Southern cassowary, Casuarius casuarius. Vulnerable. With head of the emu, Dromaius novaehollandiae)

Autograph tree
5855228 Autograph tree; (add.info.: Autograph tree, Clusia rosea. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Jussieu's "Dictionary of Natural Science, " Florence, Italy)

Fruit bats
5855225 Fruit bats; (add.info.: Egyptian free-tailed bat, Tadarida aegyptiaca, and red fruit bat or red fig-eating bat, Stenoderma rufum)

Bulldog bat and spear-nosed bat
5855224 Bulldog bat and spear-nosed bat; (add.info.: Greater bulldog bat or fisherman bat, Noctilio leporinus, and greater spear-nosed bat, Phyllostomus hastatus)

Sandbox tree, Hura crepitans
5855220 Sandbox tree, Hura crepitans; (add.info.: Sandbox tree, Hura crepitans. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Jussieu's "Dictionary of Natural Science)

Screw pine, Pandanus utilis
5855218 Screw pine, Pandanus utilis; (add.info.: Screw pine, Pandanus utilis. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Jussieu's "Dictionary of Natural Science)

Grey currawong and black-tailed tityra
5855212 Grey currawong and black-tailed tityra; (add.info.: Grey currawong, Strepera versicolor, and black-tailed tityra, Tityra cayana)

Short-tailed field-tyrant, Muscigralla brevicauda, and Pacific robin (Norfolk Island), Petroica multicolor
5855196 Short-tailed field-tyrant, Muscigralla brevicauda, and Pacific robin (Norfolk Island), Petroica multicolor; (add.info.: Short-tailed field-tyrant, Muscigralla brevicauda)

Apple banana
5855193 Apple banana; (add.info.: Apple banana, Musa acuminata -- balbisiana. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Jussieu's "Dictionary of Natural Science)

Common water-plantain, Alisma plantago-aquatica
5856781 Common water-plantain, Alisma plantago-aquatica; (add.info.: Common water-plantain, Alisma plantago-aquatica. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieu's "Dictionary of)

Palm cockatoo and ground parrot
5855222 Palm cockatoo and ground parrot; (add.info.: Palm cockatoo, Probosciger aterrimus, and eastern ground parrot, Pezoporus wallicus)

Satin bowerbird and magpie tanager
5855211 Satin bowerbird and magpie tanager; (add.info.: Satin bowerbird (male), Ptilonorhynchus violaceus, and magpie tanager, Cissopis leveriana

Leaf fungi Circinaria epiphylla
5855200 Leaf fungi Circinaria epiphylla; (add.info.: Leaf fungi, Circinaria epiphylla. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Jussieu's "Dictionary of Natural Science)

Cowslip, Primula veris
5855177 Cowslip, Primula veris; (add.info.: Cowslip, Primula veris. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieu's "Dictionary of Natural Science, " Florence, Italy, 1837)

Long-crested eagle and gray-headed kite
5855158 Long-crested eagle and gray-headed kite; (add.info.: Long-crested eagle, Lophaetus occipitalis, and gray-headed kite, Leptodon cayanensis)

Red rock crab, Grapsus grapsus, and spider crab, Maia squinado
5855157 Red rock crab, Grapsus grapsus, and spider crab, Maia squinado; (add.info.: Red rock crab, Grapsus grapsus, and spider crab, Maia squinado)

Yarrow, Achillea millefolium
5855154 Yarrow, Achillea millefolium; (add.info.: Yarrow, Achillea millefolium. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine de Jussieu's "Dictionary of Natural Science)

Statue of Andrea di Cione di Arcangelo, known as Andrea Orcagna (1308-1368), architect, painter, sculptor
YOU4419684 Statue of Andrea di Cione di Arcangelo, known as Andrea Orcagna (1308-1368), architect, painter, sculptor, Italian goldwort, pupil of Giotto di Bondone and Andrea Pisano

Statue of Pier Antonio Micheli (1679-1737), Italian botanist, considered one of the father of modern mycology
YOU4419659 Statue of Pier Antonio Micheli (1679-1737), Italian botanist, considered one of the father of modern mycology, Sculpture by Vincenzo Consani (1818-1888)

Tuscany, Florence: Garden of Boboli, the basins of Isolotto, 1885
LUX4713445 Tuscany, Florence: Garden of Boboli, the basins of Isolotto, 1885; (add.info.: Tuscany, Florence: Garden of Boboli, the basins of Isolotto, 1885); Photo © Lux-in-Fine

Florence: Photography of a painting by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio, 1483-1520) in the gallery Pitti, 1890
LUX4716032 Florence: Photography of a painting by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio, 1483-1520) in the gallery Pitti, 1890; (add.info.: Florence: Photography of a painting by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio)

Florence: The sculpture of Persee showing the head of Meduse sculpted by Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571)
LUX4715555 Florence: The sculpture of Persee showing the head of Meduse sculpted by Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571) in the loggia of the Lanzi (or the Seigneury)

Louise Florence Petronille Tardieu d'Esclavelles d'Epinay, aka Mme d'Epinay
3253050 Louise Florence Petronille Tardieu d'Esclavelles d'Epinay, aka Mme d'Epinay; (add.info.: Louise Florence Petronille Tardieu d'Esclavelles d'Epinay, 1726-1783)

Mountain of the Sciences, 1850
3507380 Mountain of the Sciences, 1850; (add.info.: Illuminated page depicting the Mountain of the Sciences with Moses, The Dominican T)

Firenze, Via Strozzi
2909870 Firenze, Via Strozzi; (add.info.: Firenze (Florence, Italy) the Via Strozzi, 1890); Universal History Archive/UIG

Diamond and ruby pendant necklace, 19th century
BAL1933 Diamond and ruby pendant necklace, 19th century; Private Collection

Bringing News of Relief to Florence (colour litho)
8661454 Bringing News of Relief to Florence (colour litho) by Topham, Francis William (1808-77) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Bringing News of Relief to Florence)

Cosmo de Medici receiving the Greek exiles (engraving)
8647204 Cosmo de Medici receiving the Greek exiles (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Cosmo de Medici receiving the Greek exiles)

Portico of SS Annunziata, Florence (b/w photo)
8648301 Portico of SS Annunziata, Florence (b/w photo) by Italian Photographer, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Portico of SS Annunziata, Florence)

The Renaissance in Italy, Sculpture (engraving)
8644813 The Renaissance in Italy, Sculpture (engraving) by European School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Renaissance in Italy, Sculpture)

The Renaissance in Italy, Sculpture, 15th Century (engraving)
8644811 The Renaissance in Italy, Sculpture, 15th Century (engraving) by European School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Renaissance in Italy, Sculpture, 15th Century)

The Renaissance in Italy, Sculpture, 15th Century, Ghiberti, Donatello (engraving)
8644808 The Renaissance in Italy, Sculpture, 15th Century, Ghiberti, Donatello (engraving) by European School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Renaissance in Italy, Sculpture)

Etruscan Art (engraving)
8644796 Etruscan Art (engraving) by European School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Etruscan Art. Illustration for Architecture, Sculpture)

The Renaissance in Italy, Sculpture, 14th and 15th Centuries, Ghiberti (engraving)
8650796 The Renaissance in Italy, Sculpture, 14th and 15th Centuries, Ghiberti (engraving) by European School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Renaissance in Italy, Sculpture)

Third Period of Greek Sculpture, About 400-323 BC (engraving)
8650790 Third Period of Greek Sculpture, About 400-323 BC (engraving) by European School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Third Period of Greek Sculpture, About 400-323 BC)

The Resurrection of Christ, by Pieter Paul Rubens, 1616 (oil on canvas)
8683298 The Resurrection of Christ, by Pieter Paul Rubens, 1616 (oil on canvas) by Rubens, Peter Paul (1577-1640); Brighton Pavilion, East Sussex

Statue of a saint inside the Sansovino Chapel, Santo Spirito Church, Florence
BEN5471302 Statue of a saint inside the Sansovino Chapel, Santo Spirito Church, Florence. Marble sculpture by Andrea Contucci known as Andrea Sansovino (1465/70-1527), 1492

Gray four-eyed opossum and Linnaeus mouse opossum
5855227 Gray four-eyed opossum and Linnaeus mouse opossum; (add.info.: Gray four-eyed opossum, Didelphis opossum, and Linnaeus mouse opossum, Marmosa murina)

Woodland tulip
5855221 Woodland tulip; (add.info.: Woodland tulip, Tulipa sylvestris. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Jussieu's "Dictionary of Natural Science, " Florence)

Milkweed
5855208 Milkweed; (add.info.: Common milkweed, Asclepias syriaca. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Jussieu's "Dictionary of Natural Science, " Florence, Italy)

Aegean wallflower, Erysimum cheiri
5855201 Aegean wallflower, Erysimum cheiri; (add.info.: Aegean wallflower, Erysimum cheiri. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Antoine Jussieu's "Dictionary of Natural Science)

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"Florentino: A Journey Through Florence's Rich History and Artistic Legacy" Step into the enchanting city of Florence, where history comes alive in every corner. From the majestic Palazzo Vecchio to the bustling Piazza della Signoria, this city is a treasure trove of cultural wonders. Immerse yourself in the past with an engraving from Galileo Galilei's groundbreaking work "Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo, " published in 1632. Marvel at his genius as you visit his final resting place at the Basilica of Santa Croce, a testament to his immense contributions to science. Art lovers will be captivated by Madonna and Child, a stunning masterpiece painted on poplar panel between 1475-1480. This timeless artwork showcases the skill and devotion of Renaissance artists who sought to capture divine beauty on canvas. Explore Florence through time with a map dating back to 1594. Trace your fingers along its etched lines and imagine how this vibrant city has evolved over centuries. Gaze upon Lorenzo Ghiberti's mesmerizing Head, crafted meticulously from painted bronze between 1429-52. Feel the artist's passion come alive as you admire this exquisite piece that embodies Florentine artistry at its finest. Transport yourself back to Italy in the 1950s when travel was filled with adventure and discovery. Admire Benvenuto Cellini's awe-inspiring sculpture Perseus with the Head of Medusa at Loggia dei Lanzi while relishing Erich Andres' captivating photograph capturing that momentous era. Witness history unfold before your eyes as Grand Duke Ferdinand I de Medici ties knots with Christine of Lorraine in their wedding painting on wood from 1589. Experience their love story amidst opulent surroundings that still exude grandeur today.