Florence has the greatest collection of Renaissance art in the world, and a character list that reads like a Who's Who of the period's greatest artists and thinkers - Dante, Leonardo, Michaelangelo - not to mention the powerful families who financed their work - the Medici and the Strozzi. Evidence of their lasting influence abounds today, including the discovery of a Leonardo fresco beneath a painting by Vasari, and the unearthing of Michaelangelo's plans for a church facade. The city's challenge today is to manage the resultant tourist hordes; a new entrance to an enlarged Uffizi should double tourist numbers to the gallery, while a tramline is intended to reduce the city's traffic.
- ISBN10 1846700299
- ISBN13 9781846700293
- Publish Date 6 March 2008 (first published 6 October 2005)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 February 2012
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Crimson Publishing
- Imprint Time Out Group Ltd
- Edition 6th edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 336
- Language English