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Florence: Arts
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Linger in Florence, wander downtown avenues lined with grand Victorian homes, Queen Annes, bungalows, Alabama’s only Frank Lloyd Wright. Find the antiques tucked in shop corners. Symphonies, restaurants with white tablecloths, art exhibits, designer boutiques—do it all.
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Florence became a city-state and in the 15th cent. came under the control of Cosimo de' Medici, a wealthy merchant and patron of the arts. Although republican forms were kept until the 16th cent., the Medici family ruled, and Lorenzo de' Medici, who held power from 1469 to 1492, was able to put down the Pazzi conspiracy (1478), instigated by Pope Sixtus IV.
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The panels depicting biblical stories of "Adam and Eve," Jacob and Esau" and "David and Goliath" will be moved back to Florence to be reassembled in the original doorway. "They are never expected to travel again," according to the High Museum of Art, a collaborator of the exhibit.
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