I found an Annunciation picture above a door.
On the wall nearby is a large sign which has some lettering beneath it. Yet I cannot transcribe the letters.
I once saw an Annunciation picture where the flight path of the dove in time was represented by a series of golden circles. I think that it was from the early Renaissance. Does anyone know of that picture please?
William Overington
3 January 2009
Three restaurants, each including the word RISTORANTE in its sign.
This is in the famous Piazza della Signoria.
Zooming-in displays the details of each sign.
I noticed that the E and the T in the word RISTORANTE in the sign at the left of the picture are similar to those in my Galileo Lettering font, though the other letters shown are different from those in the Galileo Lettering font.
William Overington
7 January 2009
A wall plaque with lettering.
William Overington
9 May 2009
I was using Google Streetview of Florence earlier this afternoon when I found the following view.
It is on the south side of the River Arno, upstream from the Ponte Vecchio.
Supplementary note of 28 May 2011
The above link no longer goes to the correct place.
Please try the following.
End of supplementary note of 28 May 2011
Rotating around, there is a large poster using the word IMPRESSIONISMO in red sans serif letters and the phrase Dipingere la luce in white in a serifed face. Translation Plus translates that into English as “Impressionism To paint the light”.
Please note that the poster is landscape format and that all of the lettering is horizontal.
Zooming in there is a web address.
Searching in Google Streetview for Palazzo Strozzi shows that the Palazzo Strozzi is on the north side of the River Arno, not next to the river, and a short way downstream from the Ponte Vecchio.
Looking around from that view, there are four more posters. These posters are all portrait format, along the same theme. Some of the lettering is horizontal, yet the large red sans serif lettering has its baseline rotated, sometimes the lettering goes up and sometimes it goes down. Three of the posters have the white serifed lettering as well.
I found the following web page.
http://www.impressionismofirenze.it/Sezione.jsp?idSezione=56
There are some pdfs on the following page.
http://www.impressionismofirenze.it/Sezione.jsp?idSezione=33
William Overington
13 June 2009
Here is a view from another side of the same palazzo, the Palazzo Strozzi. This view is approximately at a right angle to the previous view and this view is from the left of the previous view and the previous view is from the right of the present view.
The same posters are displayed.
This collection of posters inspired me to try to produce a set of similar posters using desktop publishing software.
Just to try out the overall concept, yesterday morning I produced, using Serif PagePlus X2 and two of my own fonts, an A4 page with a similar structure of a sans serif font in red and a serifed font in white, both going vertically and with some large spots of colour.
Just a concept try out, but attached below in case it is of interest to some readers.
quickshape_art_poster_000.pdf
William Overington
16 June 2009
Here is a view of the wall of the Palazzo Strozzi that is on the opposite side of the building in relation to the wall in the Piazza degli Strozzi that was mentioned in the previous post in this thread. The same collection of posters is being displayed.
This wall is at a right angle to the wall that is in the Via degli Strozzi that was mentioned in the post of 13 June 2009.
The fourth wall is in a small alley.
William Overington
17 June 2009
Some readers may remember the post of Saturday 13 June 2009 where the Palazzo Strozzi was first mentioned as a result of my finding a poster displayed in the Lungarno Benvenuto Cellini.
That poster and another poster are displayed by the following.
The poster on the right is interesting,
Something else that is of interest is that from this location, three possible directions of travel are offered.
Whichever of those directions one travels, the two posters change, though the two new posters seem to be the same whichever way one travels.
A view of one of the two new posters is displayed by travelling into the Via della Fornace.
The poster includes some large sans serif lettering used with no line spacing at all.
In the large white lettering, is the white mark after FI and before ESTA intended to indicate a grave accent on the capital I?
Or is it perhaps intended to be some play on words involving the name Firenze and the word fiesta?
William Overington
20 June 2009
In the post of 20 June 2009 in this thread is mention of a poster in the Via della Fornace that includes the word FIESTA in large letters.
In that poster, in smaller letters, is reference to the Area San Salvi.
Searching for Area San Salvi leads to a view in the Via di San Salvi: I do not know at present whether that is related to the Area San Salvi.
However, I did find in the Via di San Salvi various posters for various events in various places.
One is for a performance of the opera LA TRAVIATA with the word TRAVIATA typeset in large serifed capitals with kerning on the AV combination and also on the AT and TA combinations.
William Overington
22 June 2009
Google has regathered images of parts of Florence.
The following shows the sign of a pharmacy.
The pharmacy has two green cross signs, each overhanging a different street: one of them, in one view, has lettering below it, with a useful message.
Google Translate can be used to produce a translation from Italian to English.
Yet that message is absent from another view of the sign in the same place. So maybe the images were gathered at different times and a sign was changed.
Returning to the original view and moving to the left and turning so as to be looking forward along the street, and then moving forward, one arrives at the Piazza della Signoria.
Diagonally opposite is the entrance to the Uffizi Gallery.
Google has gathered images from inside parts of the Uffizi gallery.
There is a double arrow link on the streetview image enabling a move inside, and upstairs, into the Uffizi gallery.
William Overington
30 May 2011
I have found the website of the pharmacy.
http://www.farmacia-molteni.com/
http://www.farmacia-molteni.com/farmacia-molteni.php
The English page is as follows.
http://www.farmacia-molteni.com/farmacia-molteni_e.php
Clicking on the WHERE TO FIND US link leads to the following page.
http://www.farmacia-molteni.com/dove-siamo_e.html
There is a rather nice pictorial map available in a pdf, which is supplied in a zip file.
The map and the pictures upon it appear to be drawn using vectors.
William Overington
21 June 2011