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The loggia  was built around the middle of the 16th century in the heart of the city, just a few steps from the Ponte vecchio. Initially, it was intended for the sale of silk and luxury goods and then for the famous straw hats, but today mainly leather goods and souvenirs are sold.

In the corner niches statues of famous Florentines were intended to be placed, but only three were made during the 18th century Michelle de lando,Giovanni villani and Bernardo cennini

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Orsanmichele is a church in the Italian city of Florence. The building was constructed on the site of the kitchen garden of the monastery of San Michele which no longer exists

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Santa Maria del Fiore, Piazza del Duomo, Florence, Metropolitan City of Florence, Italy

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28.2 Santa Maria del Fiore, Piazza del Duomo, Florence

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28.2 Santa Maria del Fiore, Piazza del Duomo, Florence

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This is il Duomo, the dome of the Church of Santa Maria del Fiore.  The cathedral lacked a dome for decades, but Filippo Brunelleschi figured a way to build  this massive dome out of iron hoops, wood and brick. It has no internal supports.

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The Renaissance began in 14th-century Italy. During this time, the Italian city-state of Florence was home to many advances, leading it to be called the “cradle of the Renaissance.”

Florence is located on the Arno River, just north of central Italy. Between 1300 and 1600, it was home to some of the greatest artists and thinkers of the Renaissance.

During the Renaissance, Florence was—as it still is—a beautiful city. One of its most notable buildings is the towering Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, also known as the Duomo (which means cathedral. The cathedral was the center of the city's religious life. Nearby is the Palazzo Vecchio, or Old Palace, which was the headquarters of the city government. The grand Palazzo Medici was the home of Florence's ruling family, the Medici. A more humble house was the Casa di Dante  or Dante's House. Dante is one of Italy's most celebrated poets.Florence was the banking center of Europe during the Renaisance. People came to the Mercato Nuovo to trade their coins for florins, the gold coins of Florence. Another popular spot in the city was the Ponte Vecchio, a beautiful stone bridge that spanned the Arno River and, even today, is lined with the shops of fine jewelers and goldsmiths.

Florence's wealth helped to make it a leading cultural center of the Renaissance. In this lesson, you will explore Renaissance Florence's architecture and engineering, painting, sculpture, literature, science, and mathematics. You will also find out about Florentine politics, commerce, and trade.

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Michelangelo (1475–1564) was one of the leading artists of the Renaissance. He was born in a small village near Florence and grew up to be one of the greatest painters and sculptors in history. Historians say that Michelangelo had a difficult childhood. His mother died when he was six years old, and his father was stern and demanding. Perhaps this troubled early life contributed to Michelangelo's famously bad temper. Although he was very religious, he was known to use fierce words when he was angry. He was also intensely ambitious.

When Michelangelo was 13, he became an apprentice to a painter in Florence. At 15, he began studying with a sculptor who worked for the powerful Medici family. Michelangelo lived for a time in the Medici household, where he met many leading thinkers, artists, and writers. Michelangelo was gifted in both sculpture and painting. His art combines Renaissance ideals of beauty with emotional expressiveness.Michelangelo's sculptures show his amazing talent for carving lifelike figures from blocks of marble. When he was just 24, he carved his famous La Pietà, which shows Mary tenderly holding the body of Jesus across her lap. (A pietà is a depiction of Mary, the mother of Jesus, mourning over her dead son.)

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Titian who lived from about 1488 to 1576, was born in the Italian Alps. Early in life, his talent took him to the wealthy city-state of Venice where he became the city's greatest painter. As a boy, Titian was sent to Venice to train with famous painters. He worked with an artist named Giorgione, who was a master of fresco painting. A fresco is a painting made on the wet plaster of a wall or ceiling. Titian also studied examples of art from Rome and Florence, but in time, he outgrew the influence of his teachers and created his own style.Titian was a persuasive man. Long after he became famous, he persuaded patrons to support his art by claiming to be poor. However, despite his financial troubles, he was also quite generous with his friends and sometimes gifted them portraits at no cost.Titian's early work was precise and detailed, but he later developed a freer style that involved using blobs of paint to create vivid forms, colors, and textures. He was known for his inspired use of color and for loose, lively brushwork that made his pictures appear lifelike. His art also had a flair for expressing human personality.

In addition to painting many scenes of classical myths and Bible stories, Titian created portraits of the rich and powerful. In 1516, he was named the official painter of Venice and was later named court painter of Italy by Holy Roman emperor Charles V. Titian made many portraits of Charles V and other royalty.

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Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor and architect. Leonardo trained in Florence under a master sculptor and painter. All his life he studied many subjects, including painting, sculpture, music, math, anatomy, botany, architecture, and engineering.Leonardo spent much of his life in Florence and Milan where he worked as an artist, engineer, and architect for kings, popes, and wealthy commoners. He had a special love for animals and sometimes bought caged animals at the market and set them free. He also was a vegetarian, which was quite unusual at the time.Leonardo was gifted in many fields. He was an accomplished painter, sculptor, architect, and engineer.

Leonardo's notebooks show him to be one of the greatest creative minds of all time. Like Albrecht Dürer, he closely studied proportions and made precise drawings of people, animals, and plants. He also sketched out ideas about geometry and mechanics, the science of motion and force. He designed weapons, buildings, and a variety of machines.