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Sunday Riley: the woman behind the beauty brand - The Florentine
Jan 19, 2023 · Now the entrepreneur divides her time between Houston, where her business and family are based, and Florence, while the farm undergoes extensive renovation work.Powered by science, balanced by botanicals is the tagline for Sunday Riley’s beauty products. As we chat, it becomes increasingly clear that Sunday has an innate blend of analysis and instinct.
Michelangelo’s tomb: five fun facts you probably didn’t know
Oct 12, 2017 · When Michelangelo died on February 18, 1564, he was initially laid to rest in the SS. Apostoli church in Rome. However, when Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici heard about this development, he declared that since he was not able to employ Michelangelo and honour him in Florence during his life, he would honour him in death with a state funeral and a proper tomb …
The Italian Risorgimento: A timeline | The Florentine
Mar 10, 2011 · The process of Italian unification was the result of nearly 60 years of events, daring action and revolutionary ideas. Here is a timeline of the key moments leading to and sealing Italy’s unification.
Trattoria Sergio Gozzi - The Florentine
Oct 27, 2011 · Trattoria Gozzi, known by locals simply as ‘Da Sergio,’ has been serving traditional Tuscan fare since 1915. This is a place where the potatoes are peeled and sliced fresh daily, where the same locals eat lunch every day, and where fourth-generation Gozzi brothers, Andrea and Alessandro, run the entire show, the former from the kitchen and the latter from the …
The Duomo clock - The Florentine
Mar 3, 2016 · The clock has only one hand, running anti-clockwise from the Roman numeral XXIIII at the bottom, which does not indicate midnight. The clock, in fact, registers the ora italica (‘Italian time’), also known as Bohemian time or Julian time, after Julius Caesar’s 46 CE calendar, which began at sunset and ended at sunset. In the cathedral, the clock’s main purpose was probably …
The Italian mystery of the missing toilet seats | The Florentine
Jul 16, 2015 · Sam Hilt. Sam Hilt is a former resident of the San Francisco Bay Area who has learned to love the eccentricities of Italian culture. He is the co-founder of the travel company, TuscanyTours.com and the author of the acclaimed guidebook, The Uffizi Gallery.
Fryer’s Pieta’ - The Florentine
Mar 29, 2012 · The last time a contemporary British artist’s work was showcased in a prestigious Florence venue was last year when Damien Hirst‘s diamond skull was displayed in Palazzo Vecchio.Now Florentines have a new opportunity to encounter contemporary British art, this time the work of Paul Fryer, Hirst’s close friend and fellow countryman from Leeds.
The Medici balls - The Florentine
The Medici family has always been associated with balls.Six of them to be exact. Their family emblem, five red balls (palle, in Italian) and one blue, on a gold shield, decorate numerous buildings all over Florence and Tuscany-any palazzo, church or monument to which the Medici had connections or that was financed using Medici money.
Michelangelo Buonarroti and his women | The Florentine
Nov 2, 2017 · Sofonisba Anguissola (1532–1625) was the first woman to achieve international acclaim as a professional painter. She was the eldest daughter of an affluent nobleman from Genoa who arranged for the most famous artist of the era, Michelangelo, to be shown Sofonisba’s drawing of a Laughing Girl for a critique of her work. The Renaissance master admitted he …