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Florence
Italy · 43.7696, 11.2558
Banking republic that financed the Italian Renaissance.
Historical layers
1400 – 1550
Renaissance
Medici patronage, workshops, and the dome.
Events here
1503Leonardo Begins the Mona Lisa
A portrait of a Florentine merchant's wife, carried unfinished across the Alps and never delivered.
1512The Sistine Chapel Ceiling
Michelangelo finishes four years of fresco over 500 square metres of Vatican ceiling.
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