Prologue:
Florence, Italy



Palazzo Vecchio
One-handed clock
Piazza di San Firenze, the spire of Badia in the distance and Bargello on the right.

Lampredotto Sandwich

Badia Spire

Sea of red tile roofs:

Chapter 1:

Harris Tweed and Somerset Loafers
Florence skyline, Palazzo Vecchio

BMW motorcyle:

Chapter 2:
Example of a Max Ernst painting:

Chapter 3:
Super Yacht
Chapter 6:

Chapter 7:


Botticelli’s Birth of Venus:

Leonardo’s Annunciation:

Michelangelo’s David:

Moshe Kai:

Gray’s Anatomy book:

Le maschere:

Chapter 10:
Plague Mask:

Venice Carnevale:

Harris Tweed Tag and Logo:

Chapter 11:
Biohazard Symbol:

US Consulate – Florence


Chapter 13:
Russian nesting dolls:

Sumerian Cylinder Seal example:

Example of artwork with a three-headed satan devouring three different men: Lucifer, Codex altonensis (Toscane, 1350-1410), Bibliotheca Gymnasii Altonani (Hamburg)


Chapter 14:

La Mappa dell’Inferno, (The Map of Hell), Sandro Botticelli, c.1480-c.1495. Reg.lat.1896, pt. A, foglio. 101r. ©Biblioteca Apostiolica Vaticana

Chapter 15:



The Three Shades, of Rodin’s Gates of Hell
Stradanus’s Phlegyas paddling through the submerged bodies on the river Styx

The Circle of the Lustful: Francesca da Rimini (‘The Whirlwind of Lovers’), William Blake

Bouguereau’s Dante and Virgil in Hell

Illustration from Dante”s Divine Comedy, Inferno, Canto XIX – Franz von Bayros

Salvador Dalí’s watercolors and woodcuts
Gustave Dore’s black and white etchings:
Chapter 16:
C A T R O V A C E R

Chapter 18:
Viale Niccolò Machiavelli, Porta Romana, and Old Florence

Depictions of Dante:
Andrea del Castagno, Botticelli portrait, statue from the Piazza di Santa Croce, and the fresco in the chapel of the Bargello attributed to Giotto
La Divina Commedia di Dante, Michelino:

Michelangelo’s Last Judgement at the Sistine Chapel

Map of Hell, Botticelli

Details:
Dante and Virgil at the Gates of Hell, Doré

Chapter 20:
Porto Romana


Gustave Dore, Dante and Virgil Riding the Monster Geryon Through Hell

Malebolge

Chapter 21:
Botticelli’s Birth of Venus, The Pietà and the David by Michelangelo
Boboli Gardens

Chapter 22:

Council on Foreign Relations, Park and 68th, New York City

Dante and Virgil Looking Down Upon Souls in Torment

Chapter 23:
Inside the wall around Boboli Gardens


Giorgio Vasari’s Battaglia di Marciano


Surveillance Drone

Chapter 25:
Ponte Vecchio

The Isolotto

The Viottolone

La Cerchiata

Fountain of the Fork

Pitti Palace from the Fountain of the Fork

Obelisk of Rames II and Bath’s of Caracalla

Inner courtyard

Exterior Facade

Chapter 27:



Braccio di Bartolo

Buontalenti Grotto, notice the small grey door on the left.


Chapter 29:




Chapter 30

Chapter 31:

Chapter 32:
Vasari Corridor







Chapter 33:
Thomas Robert Mathus, An Essay on the Principles of Population

Chapter 34:
Palazzo Vecchio

Ammannati’s Neptune

Replica of David and Hercules & Cacus


Loggia Dei Lanzi

Medici Lions

Chapter 35:

The Labors of Hercules
Michelangelo’s Genius of Victory

Giorgio Vasari’s Battaglia di Marciano


Chapter 36:

Lo Studiolo di Francesco I, (Study of Francesco I)

Fall of Icarus (back wall, bottom row, center), An Allegory of Human Life (left wall, bottom row, center), Nature Presenting Prometheus with Spectacular Gems (ceiling, center)
For the Love of God, Damien Hirst

Chapter 39:
View from the balcony, Cerca Trova is on the painting to the right.


Bust of Machiavelli, Mappa Mundi, and La Divina Commedia: Dante Alighieri
Dante Alighieri Death Mask

Chapter 42:
Sculptures at Loggia dei Lanzi, The Rape of the Sabines, The Rape of Polyxena, Perseus Holding the Severed Head of Medusa.
Hercules and Diomedes, Rossi

Chapter 44:
Mappa Mundi, Hall of Geographical Maps

Chapter 45:
Armenia, hidden passage


Chapter 46:

Apotheosis of Cosimo I, Vasari

Apotheosis of Washington

Chapter 49:
Duke of Athens Stairway:

Chapter 50:
Cornetti:



Chapter 51:
Museo Casa di Dante:

Chapter 52:

Santa Margherita de’ Cerchi

Beatrice’s Tomb:

Chapter 53:

Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore


Vasari, The Last Judgement

The Baptistry of San Giovanni

Chapter 54:
Bronze doors of The Baptistry of San Giovanni

Jacob & Esau






Chapter 57:
Three-headed Satan


Chapter 58:

Chapter 59:
Altar at The Baptistry of San Giovanni

Chapter 60:
Florence to Venice by train

Chapter 61:
Boticelli’s more famous works: Birth of Venus and Springtime


The Rod of Asclepius vs. Caduceus (Staff of Hermes)

Chapter 62:
Frecciargento train:

Chapter 67:
H+ references, found a couple:
Chapter 68:

The Grand Canal

Ponte Degli Scalzi bridge

San Simeone Piccolo

Rome’s Pantheon

Seppie al Nero

Church of San Geremia

Saint Lucia

Casino di Venezia
Ca’ Pesaro: Galleria Internazionale d’Arte Moderna

Gustav Klimt, The Kiss
Rialto Bridge


Chapter 69:
Dogana da Mar



St, Mark’s Square

Gondola

Ferro di Prua
St. Mark’s belltower
Doge Palace

Ponte dei Sospiri

Chapter 70:
Dubois SR52 Blackbird:

Chapter 71:


St. Mark’s Square clock tower


Scene from Moonraker:




The Tetrarchs

Chapter 72:
Friesian Horse:
Chapter 73:

Chapter 74:

St. Marks footprint vs. Notre Dame footprint
Pala d’Oro

The real horses:

Dandolo Preaching the Crusade, Dore

Chapter 75:
St. Mark’s Basilica crypt

Chapter 76:
Henricus Dandolo

Chapter 78:
Water soluble plastic example: Tide Pods

Chapter 79:
Sienna’s probable route from St. Mark’s
Chapter 81:
Real Store Atelier Pietro Longhi website: www.pietrolonghi.com

Frari Church

Chapter 83:
Nicelli Airport

Chapter 84:

Istanbul, Turkey:



Hagia Sophia
Swiss Embassy Logo vs. American Red Cross
Chapter 85:

Part of the Constantine Wall on the Kennedy Highway
Pieter Bruegel, Triumph of Death
Blue Mosque (Sultan Ahmet Camii)

Blue Mosque Spire vs. Cinderella’s Castle at Walt Disney World Florida
Sultanahmet Square
Egyptian Obelisk, Serpent Column, Million Stone:
Hagia Sophia
Chapter 87:
Southern Facade:
Fountain of Ablutions:

Main Entrance:
Outer Narthex and Inner Narthex

Imperial Door:
Close-up of mosaic above door:
Chapter 88:
Sanctuary Interior :
Floor plan of Hagia Sophia:
Golden Dome:
John Singer Sargent painting:
Close-up of chandelier:



Deesis Mosaic:
Chapter 89:

Chapter 90:
Yerebatan Sarnıcı
Entrance from Google Maps:
Chapter 91:


Crying Hen’s Eye
Medusa
Side mote, the cisterns also has a side-head Medusa:

Chapter 94:

Chapter 95:

Spice Bazaar with New Mosque in the background.


Galata Bridge/New Mosque



Chapter 99:
Galata Tower
Chapter 101:
Swiss Consolate, Istanbul
Chapter 104:
Back in Florence… Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore

Vasari, The Last Judgement




Michelino’s La commedia illumina Firenze

https://www.brunelleschihotelflorence.com/history/

Palazzo Vecchio
Hall of the 500

Dante death mask
Epilogue
Bay of Biscay
The End.