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The draped garments of this marble statue looked pretty cool from my seat below... The Piazza della Signoria (Signoria Square) is out side the Uffizi Gallery which houses some amazing works by the likes of Giotto (The Ognissanti Madonna, Badia Polyptych), Sandro Botticelli (Primavera, The Birth of Venus, The Adoration of the Magi and others), Leonardo da Vinci (The Annunciation, The Adoration of the Magi), Albrecht Dürer (The Adoration of the Magi), Michelangelo (The Doni Tondo), Raphael (Madonna of the Goldfinch, Pope Leo X with Cardinals Giulio de' Medici and Luigi de' Rossi), Titian (Flora, Venus of Urbino), Parmigianino (The Madonna of the Long Neck), and Caravaggio, all AMAZING artists in my opinion. I have yet to go in but I will very soon. In the square, however, marble and bronze statue adorn the open area. In the 16th century, the Medici Family brought or commisioned these equally amazing three dimensional pieces to/for the Piazza della Signoria. Some of Roman origins, the Medici wanted to prove that they were of the classical discipline, thus associating themselves with power.
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