limestone exterior

Location: Florence, Italy ALAMY Image ID:3C32FK2 Brunelleschi’s dome looms at the end of Via dei Servi, a terracotta mountain framed by Renaissance palazzi and tight façades of stone and shutter. From Piazza della Santissima Annunziata, the street draws eye and footsteps toward Santa Maria del Fiore in a perfect lesson of Florentine perspective. Chiaroscuro…