Category Archives: Toscana

Italian Renaissance Domes

Posted on January 14, 2021 by babbityjean

Filippo Brunelleschi’s Florentine Duomo has been an engineering marvel and mystery for more than 500 years.  How did the master goldsmith and sculptor create the largest masonry dome in existence?  It is an engineering feat that has not been accomplished … Continue reading →

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Le Buchette del Vino

Posted on October 22, 2020 by babbityjean

Nel periodo compreso tra le pestilenze bubboniche europee del 1300 e del 1600, i commercianti di vino in Toscana costruirono a creare le “finestre del vino” per impedire che acquirenti e venditori entrassero in stretto contatto. Queste finestre ad arco … Continue reading →

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Wine Windows

Posted on October 22, 2020 by babbityjean

Sometime between the bubonic plagues of the 1300s and 1600s in Europe, wine merchants in Tuscany built “wine windows” to prevent buyers and sellers from coming into close contact.  These arched windows were small openings on the facades of palazzos … Continue reading →

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