Florence: Meeting the Forger Who Fooled the Louvre

A sketching day in Florence from the Oltrarno side: gesture drawings in the Boboli Gardens, gallery research on Via Maggio, and the strange story of Giovanni Bastianini, the sculptor whose bust fooled the Louvre.

Painted on Both Sides to Win an Argument

Inside the Pitti, where the pictures are hung five high and one of them stands in the middle of the room so you can walk round the back of it. Bronzino settling a four hundred year old argument about painting and sculpture.

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