Friday, June 14, 2024

Via de' Sassetti

Lantern by Bernardo Marescalchi, Palazzo dello Strozzino, Via degli Anselmi, Florence

Lantern by Bernardo Marescalchi, 1922
Palazzo dello Strozzino
Via de' Sassetti / Via degli Anselmi
Florence, January 2023

“On the corner of Via degli Anselmi and Via de' Sassetti it is a remarkable lantern surmounted by the Giglio di Firenze and supported by six figures of naked ephebes painted in imitation of the bronze, the work dated to 1929 by the sculptor Bernardo Morescalchi (restored in 1991 by Gioia Germani).” (Palazzo dello Strozzino, Wikipedia)

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