Expert Florence Guide - Isabella Tronconi

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Address: Piazza Duomo, Florence, 50100, IT
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Expert Florence Guide - Isabella Tronconi

Hello travellers, pleased to meet you! I am Isabella, your guide in Florence!

12/01/2025

📅 In the 1570s Father from Perugia - , , "anemographer", Dominican - actively partook in fulfilling one of 's greatest wishes and ambitions: to have the great honor to finally "fix" the Julian , in which the was no longer aligned to the solar (LINK IN BIO to learn more about it).

💫⭐🌟 Egnazio Danti constructed two instrument (a and two equinoctial 'armillae') on the façade of the , so to better catch the sun beams.The quadrant is made of several smaller solar quadrants with six each of them measuring time in six different ways. These include: the “oriolo all'Italiana” (Italian dial), which begins at sunset and counts 24 hours; the “oriolo boemico” (Bohemian dial), which begins at dawn; the “astronomical dial”, which begins at midday and counts 24 hours; the “oriolo comune de' Franzesi, Tedeschi, Spagnoli” (the dial used by the French, Germans, and Spaniards), which begins at midday and counts 12 hours, beginning again at midnight; a planetary dial; a canonical dial. They date back to 1572, while the ‘armillae’ date back to 1574.

🌌🌠 One of the equinoctial armillae lies parallel to the plane. Understanding, as he did, Florence’s latitude (43° 40'), Danti tilted the armilla so that it would align perfectly. The ring perpendicular to the wall is the line, from North to South. When the Sun is at zenith with the Celestial – i.e., when the rays of the sun are perpendicular to the Equator itself – we have an Equinox. This is the day of the year when night is equally long as daylight (from "aequus", which means ‘equal’, and "nox", which means ‘night’).
At midday of the Solar Equinox, this projects a perfect cross-shaped shadow on the church’s façade. It was essential to know the day of the to be able to calculate the – especially when it came to Easter, with its ancestral Christian significance of sunrise and rebirth. Unfortunately, those armillae weren’t able to measure the Equinox but with a discrepancy of eight hours.

06/01/2025

These beautiful pictures are courtesy of Francesco Bini .

Paolo di Stefano Badaloni known as Paolo Schiavo, , 1460, , , della Querce , .
This is truly a in . Paolo Schiavo (whose painting I'm currently writing an about) decorated this oratory with depicting (besides the Adoration of the ), the Annunciation, the Four Evangelists, Saint Francis of Assisi, Saint Quirinus the Martyr, Saint John the Baptist, Saint Julian the Hospitaller, Saint Christopher, and the coat-of-arms of the family , the and . He also "sealed" the cycle with a beautiful (signed and dated) panel representing the Assumption of the Virgin Mary .

Paolo Schiavo was such an interesting . His art was rooted in style (he was probably a pupil of his), but he genuinely tried his best to keep up with the times getting inspiration from great masters such as (with whom he actively collaborated in Castiglione Olona), , , , . He was sometimes somehow pleasantly eccentric and poetic, capable of depicting true humanity (see that beautiful 's candid head), but he also started getting tired pretty fast of desperately trying to imitate artists who were far better than him. Still, we appreciate his vivid blues, greens and pinks, and the vivacity of his trait.

Happy ..!

04/01/2025

Trasporto di Master, the Greater's co**se being shipped to , second decade of the , , San Domenico church counterfacade.

in his "Book Of The Arts" writes: "When you wish to create a water, a river, or whatever kind of water you prefer, whether with fish or without, on a wall or on a panel; on a wall, remove that greenish tint that shadows the faces on the lime plaster; make the fish by shading them with this same greenish tint, always shadowing the tops of their bodies. Keep in mind that fish, and generally every irrational animal, must have its shadow above and its light below. Then, after shading with the greenish tint, lighten the bottom with white (sangiovanni) on the wall; (...) Keep adding some shadow of the same greenish tint over the fish, and across the entire field. And if you wish to create some unusual fish, add some golden spines. For dry work, you can spread verdigris mixed with oil across the field (...). If you don't want to use oil, take verdeterra or blue-green pigment, and cover everything equally; but not so much that the fish and water waves don’t still show through. And if necessary, slightly lighten the waves with white on the wall and with tempered white lead on the panel. This will suffice for the coloring process."

25/12/2024

, the and with nana and grandpa ( and ) and His future youngest and , . , , 1522 circa.

The majestic architectural background of this panel, with decorations and a frieze depicting an ancient battle (clearly inspired by ), is a proof of the artist's antiquarian culture. The central group with the , and Saint Anne recalls 's model, heavily influenced by 's engravings. The cherries that St. Anne hands over to the Child symbolises the blood to be shed during the Passion. In the second half of the 16th century, since the Devolution of to the Papal States in 1598, many works by Mazzolino belonging to House d' entered the Roman and the collections.

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28/04/2024

with , from Paris, about 1320-1340, , , .

Said writing tablets were normally coated with a thin layer of wax on one side to engrave. They were literally small carnets for the writing..!

These writing table in particular depicts the on the beach of , as this story is recounted by the illuminated manuscripts of the Grandes Chroniques de (the only other media this tiny takes inspiration from).

The defeat of Sidon, when the Arabs slaughtered the Christians, took place on the beach, on July. The dead bodies were left everywhere by the sea to rot; a few months later, finally went to Sidon to see what had occurred to his soldiers, and found nothing but decaying and rotting co**ses. One can almost smell the stench simply by looking at the people accompanying the King, that are about to vomit. Saint Louis insisted that those poor remains were sacred relics to touch and honour, for the had died in the name of Christ: and started personally to collect the bones, and to stack them in a bag, wearing no gloves.

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