La Specola: The Natural History Museum
The Natural History Museum of Florence opened in 1771, exhibits an array of wax figures and anatomical breakdowns, as well as animals from all over the world.
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The Museum of Natural History, University of Florence, was founded in 1775 by Grand Duke Peter Leopold, although the Botanical Garden dates back to 1545. With its 8 million specimens, it is the most important naturalistic museum in Italy and one of the greatest in the world. Consisting of six sections located in one of the world's most beautiful historical cities, the Museum houses specimens of extraordinary scientific and naturalistic value.
La Specola Museum, Florence - Italy Travel Guide
Ok so the human models are made out of wax. But you are still forewarned.
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I am going to take you inside to show you something very fascinating, and no need to be alarmed, it is not real. We are in the Museum of La Specola in Florence. In this place numerous models of animals and insects, but what it is really known for is the lifelike anatomical models of humans.
Hi, I am Jana. It is about 15 years that I am working here as a student before, and then as a technician now. These wax models were created starting from real corpses. The wax modelers were doing molds of the parts of the human bodies, and then they pour inside, wax. It was a three dimensional atlas for students of medicine and for people that wanted to know better human body.
This head is particularly interesting because it represents a beheaded man, a man killed by a guillotine. Sometimes when people are coming to museum to visit the waxes, people are fainting when they see the anatomical waxes. They may not be nice to look at, but the skill and precision is remarkable. I was Giulio Frizzi, showing you Florence.
A history of Florence, a Renaissance city
For centuries the Italian city of Florence has been a hub of trade and commerce, and an historic center for art and architecture. Jane Pauley explores Florentine history. (Originally broadcast May 19, 2019.)
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The Waxes of La Specola
La Specola, part of the Museo di Storia Naturale di Firenze houses the world's most remarkable collection of historical anatomical sculptures. These meticulously created models have been digitized and made part of the curriculum for Stanford anatomy students.
The first science museum
The Medici scientific collections were transferred to the Museo di Fisica e Storia Naturale [Physics and Natural History Museum], founded by Grand Duke Peter Leopold in 1775. There, the collections were enriched by conspicuous acquisitions of new instruments and experimental apparatus. Under its first director, Felice Fontana, the Museum became an important center for research and diffusion of scientific culture.
In 1841, on the occasion of the Third Congress of Italian Scientists, the Tribuna di Galileo was built in the Museo di Fisica e Storia Naturale. The more important instruments of the Medici collection were showcased there, together with those invented and used by Galileo and by the Accademia del Cimento.
In 1860, as a consequence of the unification of Italy, the Museo di Fisica e Storia Naturale was shut down. Most of the collections were donated to the departments of the Istituto di Studi Superiori, the predecessor of the University of Florence. Only the ancient instruments and the zoology and anatomy collections remained in the original location.
Ownership of the ancient scientific collections passed to the University of Florence at its foundation in 1925. To ensure their conservation and proper display, the Medici-Lorraine collections of scientific instruments were handed over to the Museo di Storia della Scienza [History of Science Museum]. The Museum was opened in 1930 in Palazzo Castellani, which remains its home to this day.
Thanks to the commitment of its first directors, Andrea Corsini and Maria Luisa Righini Bonelli, the Museo di Storia della Scienza of Florence established itself as an internationally recognized center for conservation, popularization, and research.
In recent years the Museum displays have been completely redesigned; the Library has become the Italian reference center for studies in the history of science and technology and in scientific museology. The Institute has organized international meetings and seminars, training courses, and high-profile traveling exhibitions. It has published a wide range of works of scholarly and general interest. The Institute has developed educational programs as well as innovative multimedia products.
How an Amateur Built the World's Biggest Dome
In 1418, Filippo Brunelleschi was tasked with building the largest dome ever seen at the time. He had no formal architecture training. Yet experts still don't fully understand the brilliant methods he used in contructing the dome, which tops the Santa Maria del Fiore cathedral in Florence, Italy.
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San Marco: The Dominican Monastery at the Heart of Renaissance Florence
A lecture by Ada Palmer (University of Chicago) given at the University of Chicago on February 25, 2016.
It is difficult today to imagine a world in which religious communities were deeply intertwined with the civic order and when a third of a town’s population might be priests, monks, and nuns. In Renaissance Florence the Dominican Monastery of San Marco was intimately tied to every aspect of city life, from commerce and patronage, to civil broils and foreign invasions, to education and medicine, to the great artists, architects and radical thinkers who earned the Florentine Renaissance its eternal fame. This lecture will explore the monastery’s role as a center of social and spiritual life.
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University of Florence: Rossini Flash Mob
Wednesday 11.30 am, October 26th, 2016: a library full of silent students focused on their books. The silence is interrupted by a cello and a double bass.
Then flutes, piccolo and clarinet … A bassoon, oboes, horns, strings, a conductor, Maestro Gabriele Centorbi. The music starts …. What follows is the wonderful music by the genius of Rossini and his Ouverture from Il Signor Bruschino played by the Orchestra of the University of Florence!
Last but not least, the clapping, whistles, shouts of joy … And then students again intent to the books but with a better state of mind!
Flash mob dell'Orchestra dell'Università di Firenze diretta dal M.o Gabriele Centorbi presso la Biblioteca di Scienze sociali (Firenze, 26 ottobre 2016) su musica di Gioacchino Rossini - Attività artistiche e spettacolari di Ateneo
Un progetto ideato, coordinato e realizzato da:
Lucilla Conigliello - Direttore della Biblioteca di Scienze Sociali
Giulia Maraviglia - Dirigente dell'Area Comunicazione e del Sistema bibliotecario
Teresa Megale - Delegato alle attività spettacolari
Vincenzo Natile - Biblioteca Biomedica
Organizzazione: Francesca dell'Omodarme
Direzione della fotografia: Gianluca Savi
Riprese: Gianluca Savi, Alessandro Cerbai, Paolo Boanini, Vincenzo Natile, Franco Blasi, Fergus Miconi, Anna Comparini, Alessandra Marilli
con la collaborazione degli studenti del Corso di Laurea in Pro.Ge.A.S:
Lorenzo Frittelli, Camilla Laponti, Dario Monaci, Biancalisa Nannini
Suono in presa diretta: Guido Guidi, Guido Melis
Montaggio: Guido Melis
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Florence, Italy: Michelangelo's David
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Florence: The Synagogue and Jewish Museum
In 1868 David Levi, President of the Hebrew University, bequeathed his possessions for the building of a Great Synagogue in Florence, one of the largest synagogues in South-central Europe. It was built between 1874 and 1882 by the architects Marco Treves, Mariano Falcini and Vincenzo Micheli.
The doors of the Holy Ark, before which a light burns perpetually, still bear scars inflicted by the bayonets of fascist desecrators. During the Nazi occupation the synagogue was used as a garage, and it was also mined by the retreating Germans.
The names of 248 Florentine Jews put to death by the Nazis are recorded in a large inscription in the garden of the temple, where a smaller plaque lists Jews who fell fighting for Italy during the First World War.
The history of the Florentine community is illustrated by a Museum on the first floor, divided into two sections: one illustrates the history of the Jews in Florence, the other displays religious and ceremonial objects.
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The Medici Chapels - Florence Italy
???? “The Medici Chapels (Cappelle medicee) are two structures at the Basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence, Italy, dating from the 16th and 17th centuries, and built as extensions to Brunelleschi's 15th-century church, with the purpose of celebrating the Medici family, patrons of the church and Grand Dukes of Tuscany. The Sagrestia Nuova (New Sacristy) was designed by Michelangelo. The larger Cappella dei Principi (Chapel of the Princes), though proposed in the 16th century, was not begun until the early 17th century, its design being a collaboration between the family and architects.
The Sagrestia Nuova was intended by Cardinal Giulio de' Medici and his cousin Pope Leo X as a mausoleum or mortuary chapel for members of the Medici family. It balances Brunelleschi's Sagrestia Vecchia, the Old Sacristy nestled between the left transept of San Lorenzo, with which it consciously competes, and shares its format of a cubical space surmounted by a dome, of gray pietra serena and whitewashed walls. It was the first essay in architecture (1519–24) of Michelangelo, who also designed its monuments dedicated to certain members of the Medici family, with sculptural figures of the four times of day that were destined to influence sculptural figures reclining on architraves for many generations to come.
The octagonal Cappella dei Principi surmounted by a tall dome, 59 m. high is the distinguishing feature of San Lorenzo when seen from a distance. It is on the same axis as the nave and chancel to which it provides the equivalent of an apsidal chapel. Its entrance is from the exterior, in Piazza Madonna degli Aldobrandini, and through the low vaulted crypt planned by Bernardo Buontalenti before plans for the chapel above were made.
The opulent Cappella dei Principi, an idea formulated by Cosimo I, was put into effect by Ferdinand I de' Medici. It was designed by Matteo Nigetti, following some sketches tendered to an informal competition of 1602 by Don Giovanni de' Medici, the natural son of Cosimo I, Grand Duke of Tuscany, which was altered in the execution by the aged Buontalenti. A true expression of court art, it was the result of collaboration among designers and patrons.
For the execution of its astonishing revetment of marbles inlaid with colored marbles and semi-precious stone, the Grand Ducal hardstone workshop, the Opificio delle Pietre Dure was established. The art of commessi, as it was called in Florence, assembled jig-sawn fragments of specimen stones to form the designs of the revetment that entirely cover the walls. The result was disapproved of by 18th- and 19th-century visitors but has come to be appreciated for an example of the taste of its time. Six grand sarcophagi are empty; the Medici remains are interred in the crypt below. In sixteen compartments of the dado are coats-of-arms of Tuscan cities under Medici control. In the niches that were intended to hold portrait sculptures of Medici, two (Ferdinando I and Cosimo II) were executed by Pietro Tacca (1626–42).”
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Hidden Florence mini-documentary updated May 2019
Updated in May 2019 for new app launch!
A short promotional film describing the research aims and functionalities of the Hidden Florence app. A project created by Prof Fabrizio Nevola (University of Exeter) with Dr Donal Cooper (University of Cambridge) and Prof Nicholas Terpstra (University of Toronto) and developed with Calvium Ltd. Includes interviews with Prof Nevola nd Dr David Rosenthal (University of Exeter and Edinburgh). Film produced by Ross Gill with funding from the AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) and HEFCE Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF) Open Innovation Fund .
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