Florence: Heart of the Renaissance (VIDEO)
Summary
Explore the birthplace of the Renaissance and modern Western world, Florence, Italy, through its art, architecture, and history. This city was the center of innovation during the Renaissance, where artists and thinkers embraced humanism and expressed optimism and confidence.
Highlights
- 🎨 Florence is home to some of the greatest art created during the Renaissance, including Michelangelo’s “David,” Botticelli’s “Birth of Venus,” and Ghiberti’s bronze gates.
- 🏛️ The Renaissance brought a return to the balanced domes, columns, and arches of ancient architecture and revived realism and emotion in painting.
- 💰 Being the middleman of trade between East and West, Florence had money and knew what to do with it, and wealthy merchant and banking families, like the Medici, commissioned splendid art.
- 🧑🏫 The Renaissance was an age of humanism, confidence, and excellence, where people worked hard and business was respectable.
- ⛪ The Catholic Church no longer put a ceiling on learning, and pre-Christian thinkers like Plato and Aristotle were back in vogue.
- 🏛️ Florence’s city hall, once the palace of the Medici family, towered over the main square instead of its church.
- 🖼️ Renaissance artists used realism to make their point, and they merged art and science by dissecting human corpses to better understand anatomy.
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Steves told a fib, he said that all places in this video are within 15 minutes walk.
At time mark 23:57 that location is about 30-40 minutes walk from the centre of Florence.
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Hi Rick Steve! Congratulations for your very very interesting and well done video. I liked and subscribed. I am from Florence and I am also very interested about Florence's historical facts and secrets, and I made a video about 7 amazing secrets of this wonderful city (non-for tourist stuff). Stuff that only the people who grew up there know. Feel free to check it out on my channel if you want. My best!
Posted 29 Jan. 2019 by Perry Talledo (Netherlands)…. Super magnificent city is FLORENCE (Firenze). Well presented by Rick Steves, makes me wanting to go back to this marrvelous Italian City. I will publish this video in my FACEBOOK WEB-PAGE.
If you tried to put a David statue in most North American cities you'd get religious nutcases either throwing up their hands in HORROR, or trying to destroy his naughty bits. Such a difference in culture.
4:06… what's with David's hat?? Looks VERY strange, lol.
It's too bad most Americans only know the same names; Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Dante Aligheri; there are myriad other people who did wonderful things !!!!! I love Italy !
Renassaince took place in 15th and 16th century
Rick, the Chianina cow doesn't have that name because of Chianti but because of the Val di Chiana!
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Leonardo dissected corpses to study anatomy . Michelangelo learned Leo as he was a century later.
Rick Steve's videos are standard of quality, no flattering.
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The David shown is a wrong dictation. He used the staff of God and a sling hitting Goliath in the eye. He NEVER used a sword. Maybe during a battle later but not at all young.
Got to visit last year. Seeing the statue of david was amazing
10 days is the minimum time to spend there to get an idea of what the city has to offer.
Hi Rick Steves,
I recently submitted Chinese subtitles to this video. Please check it out, thanks (and keep up the good work)
the duomo is Italian for cathedral haha nice one Steve
Not much (Except a passing mention of trade between east and west)about the influence of the ancient East (Both Islamic and other Non Islamic Eastern civilizations in the shapIng of"Our Modern Europe"Wasnt it the interaction with the East a major trigger and inspiration for the South European renaissance? North West Europeans were at the periphery for a longer time
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