FLORENCE:
A PORTRAIT
By Michael Levey

LINKS GENERAL INFORMATION ON FLORENCE: Firenze by Net (English and Italian) Firenze.net ("Una rete civica per Firenze") (very little in English) Florence, Italy (English/site set up by management of two Florentine hotels) Lonely Planet Destination: Florence (English) Florence OnLine (English and Italian) FlowNet - Turismo - Firenze (Italian) Sandro Botticelli (A guide to Florence as a biography of the artist) Further Reading: Tuscany and Umbria (includes 2 books by Levey) HISTORY OF FLORENCE: "Windows on Italy" Cosimo I de' Medici Medici family FLORENTINE LITERATURE: A biography of Dante Dante's Divine Comedy Boccaccio's Decameron GENERAL FLORENTINE ART (including galleries and museums): The Florence Art Guide (slow but good site; available in English and Italian) Thesaurus Florentinus (information on the restoration of the mural paintings in the cupola of Santa Maria del Fiore) Uffizi Gallery (Italian and English) Museo Nazionale del Bargello (sculpture/in Italian) Galleria dell'Accademia (sculpture/in Italian) List of galleries, sights (in Italian) ARTISTS (PAINTERS, SCULPTORS, ARCHITECTS) DISCUSSED IN BOOK: **Vasari's Lives of the Artists (includes complete text on many artists) BRUNELLESCHI: Filippo Brunelleschi (in Italian) Filippo Brunelleschi (Florence Art Guide) "Brunelleschi's Monograph" Renaissance and Baroque Architecture (images) Live Images from the Cupola ("Cupola Live," in Italian) A contemporary Italian professor and architect discovers Brunelleschi's method BOTTICELLI: Sandro Botticelli (A guide to Florence as a biography of the artist) The Botticelli Room of the Uffizi: Room images and short biography with images Botticelli's drawings for Dante's Divine Comedy WebMuseum on Botticelli CELLINI: Cellini (at "Thais - 1200 anni di scultura italiana") Cellini (at The Florence Art Guide) DONATELLO: Donatello (at "Thais - 1200 anni di scultura italiana") Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists: Donatello MICHELANGELO: Michelangelo (at "Thais - 1200 anni di scultura italiana") WebMuseum on Michelangelo GHIBERTI: Lorenzo Ghiberti (at "Thais - 1200 anni di scultura italiana") Lorenzo Ghiberti The Baptistery Doors (at The Florence Art Guide) GIAMBOLOGNA: Giambologna (at "Thais - 1200 anni di scultura italiana") Giambologna (at The Florence Art Guide) IL VERROCCHIO (ANDREA DI CIONE): Il Verrocchio Il Verrocchio (at "Thais - 1200 anni di scultura italiana") VASARI: **Vasari's Lives of the Artists (includes complete text on many artists) Vasari (at The Florence Art Guide) MASACCIO FOGGINI BANDINELLI: Duomo: The Cathedral Sculptures The WebMuseum includes pages on many other artists discussed in Florence: Fra Angelico Giovanni Bellini Agnolo Bronzino (Antonio Allegrida) Correggio Gentile da Fabriano Domenico Ghirlandaio Luca Giordano Giotto di Bondone Leonardo da Vinci Andrew Mantegna Simone Martini Piero di Cosimo Piero della Francesca Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio) Dante Gabriel Rossetti Peter Paul Rubens Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti) Titian