This exquisite large scale and rare work depicts the Piazzalle degli Uffizi and the Palazzo Vecchio teaming with life - horse drawn carriages, upper class ladies with children, groups of well healed men with white ruffs and capatain hats – rich and poor. The city’s elite are out to see, and to be seen, in their luxurious garments. The vocabulary of fabrics and fashion was fabulously diverse and black was a clear status symbol and the most difficult and costly to fix. What you wore and how you wore it was a matter of deep significance.Palazzo della Signoria, better known as Palazzo Vecchio, has been the symbol of the civic power of Florence for over 700 years. Built between the end of the 13th century and the beginning of the 14th to house the city’s supreme governing body, the Priori delle Arti and the Gonfalonier of Justice, over time it has been subject to a series of extensions and transformations. It was the scene of great triumphs, such as the return of the Medici in 1530...