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Florence and the woman’s image in art.
Women have been portrayed in art in two extremes – the sacred or the sinner - the celestial or
the sensual.
Florence consistently adopted the sacred and celestial for the Cult of Mary, mother of Christ
while the earthly woman was portrayed as a sinner.
In this tour we shall look at how these two extremes
have been expressed in art.
Place of the tour - SS. Annunziata church, The Cathedral of the city,
The doors of
Paradise, The Signoria Square, Brancacci Chapel
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The Homoerotic Florence.
Florence of the 15th and 16th centuries was known all over Europe not just for its art and wealth,
but also for its “sin” of sodomy.
In this tour we will talk about this lesser known subject and
shall see how homoeroticism was expressed in different works of art, in both hidden and sometimes
unmistakable ways.
Place of the tour - Bargello Museum, The Signoria Square
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