Loggia dei Lanzi
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building in Florence, Italy
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- art collection
- Has part
- Rape of the Sabine Women
- Country
- Italy
- Located in
- Florence
- Location
- piazza della Signoria
- Image
- Firenze, loggia dei lanzi (2020) 01.jpg
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- architectural style
- Gothic architecture
- Commons category
- Loggia dei Lanzi
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- Loggia dei Lanzi
- name
- the Loggia de’ Signori
- native label
- Loggia dei Lanzi
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Encyclopedic overview
Loggia dei Lanzi Painting of the Piazza della Signoria and Loggia dei Lanzi, 1830 by Carlo Canella
The Loggia dei Lanzi, also called the Loggia della Signoria, is a building on the south corner of the Piazza della Signoria in Florence, Italy, adjoining the Uffizi Gallery (leading to the Arno), and diagonally to the east the Palazzo della Signoria, the political center of the city. The loggia consists of three very high and wide arches open to the Piazza and on its east side to the Uffizi. The arches rest on cluster columns with Corinthian capitals. The wide arches appealed so much to the Florentines that Michelangelo proposed that they should be continued all around the Piazza della Signoria (see also Piazza Santissima Annunziata).
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