Loggia dei Lanzi
Open-air Gothic loggia sheltering Renaissance and classical sculptures beside a grand civic square.
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This guide to the Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence centers on sculptor Benvenuto Cellini's race in the 1550s to cast his bronze Perseus for Duke Cosimo de Medici, who wanted a message sent to a wary Florence. It follows Cellini through a fever that left him bedridden while his workshop assistants failed to notice the molten bronze beginning to seize during a storm. Casting a bronze this size in one single pour was almost never attempted, since the whole piece could shatter if the metal cooled even slightly before the mold filled.
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