Frommer's Italy 2015 (Color Complete Guide)
Eleonora Baldwin, Megan McCaffrey-Guerrera, Stephen Keeling
Language: English
Pages: 576
ISBN: 1628871385
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
families, 500 years after their Renaissance heydays. Lucrezia was born into the clan in 1480, the illegitimate daughter of Cardinal Rodrigo Borgia, soon to be Pope Alexander VI. By the time she was 20, she had a child, allegedly fathered by her brother Cesare, and had been married twice—one husband had fled for his life when the Pope decided he wanted him out of the way so Lucrezia could make a more politically advantageous alliance, another had been strangled when he lay recovering from knife
important ceiling paintings and portraits of the Evangelists and church doctors by Titian. On the right wall of the sacristy, which you have to pay to enter, is Tintoretto’s “Marriage at Cana” , often considered one of his best paintings. Campo della Salute 1. 041-5225558. Free admission to church; sacristy 3€. Daily 9am–noon and 3–6pm. Vaporetto: Salute. Scuola Grande dei Carmini CHURCH The former Venetian base of the Carmelites, finished off in the 18th century, is now a shrine of sorts to
bit troubled, and who can blame him? After slaying monsters and subduing beasts, he’s just learned he has to go into the fray again, descend into Hell, and bring back Cerberus, the three-headed canine guardian. It’s a magnificent piece, powerful and wonderfully human at the same time. The colossal “Toro Farnese,” 4m (13-ft.) high, is the largest sculpture from antiquity and is carved out of a single piece of marble. Cardinal Farnese also had this prize unearthed at the Baths of Caracalla, and he
century, when some cholera outbreaks necessitated purer sources, and the emptied cisterns came in handy as quarries then as bomb shelters during World War II (some of the wartime furnishings and graffiti remain in place). Adding to the mix is a Greek theater that’s been unearthed amid the subterranean network. Tours last about 90 minutes, include some broken-English commentary, and usually meet at Piazza San Gaetano 68, on Via dei Tribunali near the church of San Lorenzo (Metro: Dante); sometimes
fashions and personages, full of portraits of the Tornabuoni family who commissioned them. The Chiostro Verde (Green Cloister) was partly frescoed between 1431 and 1446 by Paolo Uccello, a Florentine painter who became increasingly obsessed with the mathematics behind perspective. His Old Testament scenes include an “Inundation,” which ironically was badly damaged by the Great Arno Flood of 1966. Off the cloister, the Spanish Chapel is a complex piece of Dominican propaganda, frescoed in the