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...Gates of Paradise bronze doors to the Baptistery, the Bargello collection of pieces by Michelangelo, Donatello, Luca della Robbia, Benvenuto Cellini. However, while the retreating Germans had destroyed five of the six bridges over the Arno, they had left the oldest and most valued of all, the legendary Ponte Vecchio (see cut). Built in 1345, its roofed street was a promenade for Dante, Galileo and Leonardo da Vinci; in modern times, jewelry shops have succeeded its Renaissance goldsmiths. Over the bridge runs a covered passageway connecting the Uffizi Gallery with the Pitti Palace Museum...
...Grand Councilors who voted to oust the Duce last July 24 were tried for their lives. But at the trial in Verona's grim, massive Castel Vecchio, built in 1335 near Diocletian's amphitheater, only six defendants were present. The others were in hiding. The judges were all Italians; no Germans took part. Many believe that the judges had been told to go as far as they liked, since the Duce would suspend the sentences in time...
...train went on. Four days later it pulled to a stop in a town where the Renaissance settled permanently, Florence. The Führer drove to the medieval Palazzo Vecchio, and under a portrait of Machiavelli, who once worked in the room, he and Benito Mussolini and Foreign Minister Count Ciano spread out their papers. At that moment the Italian Army was poised to reach its armored fingernails into the flesh of Greece. Hitler explained all he had done. Satisfaction was enormous. This was the 18th anniversary of Mussolini's march on Rome, and after the genial conference...
...painting has been attributed. Most critics ascribe the painting to either Titian or Giorgione, but the X-rays shows that the painting is smoothly modelled, without, the boldly defined edges characteristic of Giorgione's work, or the flickering, thin brushwork of Titian. It is shown that paintings by Palma Vecchio, a contemporary of Titian and Giorgione, have marked similarity to the "Knight of Malta...
...Palma Vecchio," Professor McCombe, Fogg Small Room...