Joe Fuoco, The Echo Magazine
VIEWER IS ENTICED,SEDUCED,AND COMPLETELY OVERWHELMED BY THE FORCE OF BEAUTY...photography is superb,narrative eloquent,and the greatness of the cities told
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The year was 1436. The place: Florence. The cathedral: Santa Maria del Fiore.
All Florentine eyes looked up to the mighty dome that Brunelleschi alone had successfully devised to cap the cathedral roof. With his master achievement Florence took on its characteristic landscape and led the Western World into the light of the Renaissance. For the next 100 years Florence was to be the cradle of rebirth in art, architecture and philosophy. Seminal figures like Michelangelo, Botticelli, Ghiberti, Cellini, Lorenzo de Medici and Leonardo da Vinci flourished and brought forth the treasures of Western Civilization: The David, The Baptistry Doors, Giotto's Bell Tower, the Pazzi Chapel, the Medici and Uffizi palace, the Birth of Venus.