Florence art

Cole visited Italy in 1831 and made a small pencil sketch of this vista of Florence shortly before sunset. In his New York studio six years later, he transformed the drawing into this large oil painting, adding picturesque humans and goats to the foreground. Exhibiting View of Florence alongside a painting of the Catskill Mountains in New York in 1837, Cole set out to prove that he had mastered the very different landscapes of the Old and New Worlds.

The Last Judgment under Brunelleschi's Dome inside the Florence Cathedral.

The Duomo. Florence cathedral has the largest brick dome ever built. It’s so large that when they started building the commissioners did not know how it would be built, they had faith that someone would come up with a solution. That someone was a jeweller who kind of bullshitted a bit …Filippo Brunelleschi but he worked it out. Nice! #florence #florencecathedral #watercolour #watercolours #watercolor_sketch #illustration #archlovers

The view of the Florence Cathedral from Piazza Michelangelo in Florence Italy

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