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.
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