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Santa Maria Novella, Florence. The Tornabuoni Chapel, frescoed by Ghirlandaio's workshop, 1485–1490. The stained glass follows his designs and dates to 1492.

Santa Maria Novella, Florence. The Tornabuoni Chapel, frescoed by Ghirlandaio's workshop, 1485–1490. The stained glass follows his designs and dates to 1492.

Santa Croce, Florence. The Baroncelli Chapel, begun 1328, with frescoes and stained glass by Taddeo Gaddi. The Assumption on the right wall is a 1490s addition by Bastiano Mainardi.

Santa Croce, Florence. The Baroncelli Chapel, begun 1328, with frescoes and stained glass by Taddeo Gaddi. The Assumption on the right wall is a 1490s addition by Bastiano Mainardi.

Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. The Sala dell'Udienza, with a gilded octagonal ceiling by Giuliano da Maiano from the 1470s and frescoes by Francesco Salviati from the 1540s.

Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. The Sala dell'Udienza, with a gilded octagonal ceiling by Giuliano da Maiano from the 1470s and frescoes by Francesco Salviati from the 1540s.

Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence. The Galleria degli Specchi, built in the 1670s, with a vault frescoed by Luca Giordano between 1682 and 1685.

Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence. The Galleria degli Specchi, built in the 1670s, with a vault frescoed by Luca Giordano between 1682 and 1685.

Palazzo Pitti, Florence. The Sala dell'Iliade, where the paintings are hung in tiers as the grand dukes arranged them. Lorenzo Bartolini's Carità Educatrice has stood at the centre since 1861.

Palazzo Pitti, Florence. The Sala dell'Iliade, where the paintings are hung in tiers as the grand dukes arranged them. Lorenzo Bartolini's Carità Educatrice has stood at the centre since 1861.

Piazza Santissima Annunziata, Florence. Brunelleschi's loggia for the Ospedale degli Innocenti, commissioned in 1419 and often called the first Renaissance building. The della Robbia roundels of swaddled babies came about seventy years later.

Piazza Santissima Annunziata, Florence. Brunelleschi's loggia for the Ospedale degli Innocenti, commissioned in 1419 and often called the first Renaissance building. The della Robbia roundels of swaddled babies came about seventy years later.

Boboli Gardens, Florence. The Limonaia, built 1777–78 by Zanobi del Rosso and still used to overwinter around five hundred citrus trees, as it was designed to.

Boboli Gardens, Florence. The Limonaia, built 1777–78 by Zanobi del Rosso and still used to overwinter around five hundred citrus trees, as it was designed to.

Bardini Garden, Florence. A hillside garden combining a baroque staircase, an English wood, and an orchard. Left overgrown for roughly fifty years, it was restored and reopened in 2005.

Bardini Garden, Florence. A hillside garden combining a baroque staircase, an English wood, and an orchard. Left overgrown for roughly fifty years, it was restored and reopened in 2005.

The Ramps, Florence. Grottoes, basins and rockwork built by Giuseppe Poggi in the 1870s, when the city needed to stabilise the hillside and chose to do it as a garden. Restored and reopened in 2019.

The Ramps, Florence. Grottoes, basins and rockwork built by Giuseppe Poggi in the 1870s, when the city needed to stabilise the hillside and chose to do it as a garden. Restored and reopened in 2019.

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