Showing posts with label ironwork. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ironwork. Show all posts
Thursday, August 22, 2024
Thursday, May 25, 2023
Iron ring
Iron ring, Palazzo Piccolomini
Banchi di Sotto
Siena, February 2022
“The Palazzo Piccolomini, also known as the Palazzo Todeschini Piccolomini is a Renaissance-style palace in the city of Siena, region of Tuscany, Italy. It is located on the Banchi di Sotto, at the corner with Via Rinaldini; uphill and west of the church of San Martino, the Loggia del Papa, and the Palazzo delle Papesse, which also built by a Piccolomini family member.” (Palazzo Piccolomini, Wikipedia)
Sunday, May 20, 2018
St. Mark and the Sconce
St. Mark by Donatello, 1411 (copy)
Orsanmichele
Sconce by ‘Il Caparra’
Via dei Lamberti
Florence, December 2017
Sunday, September 17, 2017
Friday, April 24, 2015
The Devil on the Corner
Devil (or satyr) by Giambologna (copy)
Palazzo Vecchietti
Via de' Vecchietti / Via degli Strozzi
Florence, April 2015
“One day in the year 1245, St. Peter Martyr, as he usually did, was preaching against the heretics in the Old Market Square (Piazza della Repubblica) in Florence. The crowd that had gathered to hear him were so great in number they filled the square; the crowd overflowed into the Piazza delle Cipolle (Piazza Strozzi). Suddenly the Devil, taking the form of a black horse, wanted to frighten and disperse the crowd engrossed in listening to the saint. The horse began to run like crazy in the market, trampling everything in its path. The crowd began to disperse, and people started running in hopes of saving themselves. St. Peter Martyr saw the situation, raised his arm, and made ??the sign of the cross with his hand, in the direction of the runaway horse. The horse stopped immediately. The faithful began to return to the saint to express their gratitude, and someone realized that the horse was gone. Some centuries later, in 1578, in the memory of that event, Giambologna modeled the statue of the little devil as thanks to Bernardo Vecchietti, who had been his protector and patron. The little devil was placed in the exact location where the horse first appeared and finally disappeared: one of St. Peter Martyr’s many miracles. Even today, the devil is there in Via Vecchietti, and has an appearance similar to a horse.” (The Giambologna Devil, Florence Inferno)
Monday, May 5, 2014
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