​Week One in the Books

Day trip to Florence, Wednesday Florence is only a little over an hour by train from Lucca; and, not being a large city, but a rich one, it is easy to see a lot of things in a short time. Some highlights here (clockwise from upper left) are Palazzo Strozzi and the Verocchio show, Zecchi art supply shop, the cathedral works down the street from Zecchi, and the atrium of Ss. Annunziata with frescoes by Pontormo, Rosso, and their teacher Andrea del Sarto

Some highlights from week one of Summer 2019.


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Lucca is a unique base for the study of Renaissance art and architecture principles, with great buildings and works of art by Tuscan artists, a history of producing its own artists (especially in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries), and a variety of cultural and natural resources within a short distance...