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YOU4419652: Statue of Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512), merchant, Italian navigator, he was the first to consider the coasts of present-day South America as a new continent, distinct from Asia. His name was given to this new contains, America, by the German cartographer, Martin Waldseemuller (1470-1520), Sculpture by Gaetano Grazzini (1786-1858), installed to piazzale des offices (piazzale degli Uffizi) in Florence. Photography, KIM Youngtae, Florence, Tuscany, Italy. / Bridgeman Images
YOU4419659: Statue of Pier Antonio Micheli (1679-1737), Italian botanist, considered one of the father of modern mycology, Sculpture by Vincenzo Consani (1818-1888), installed in the Piazzale des Uffizi (piazzale degli Uffizi) in Florence. Photography, KIM Youngtae, Florence, Tuscany, Italy. / Bridgeman Images
YOU4419740: View of the Ponte Sant'Angelo (Ponte Sant'Angelo) and Castel Sant'Angelo in Rome, Italian architecture, Mausolee built between 135 and 139 for Emperor Hadrian (76-138), transformed over the ages, into a stronghold of the Aurelian Wall, prison, papal palace, essentially fulfilling the role of fortress defending the Vatican and the prison political under the papaut until 1871, the year in which he was cede to the Kingdom of Italy, Saint Angelo Bridge built by Hadrian on the Tiber to offer access to his maulosee, renove in the 17th century, by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, known as Le Bernini (1598-1680), under Pope Clement IX (1600-1669). Photography, KIM Youngtae, Rome, Lazio, Italy. / Bridgeman Images
YOU4419679: Statue of Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571), sculptor, goldbearer, founder, designer of the Italian Renaissance, having as their mecenes, Francois 1st and Cosimo 1st of Tuscany, Sculpture by Ulisse Cambi (1807-1895), installed in the Piazzale des Uffizi (piazzale degli Uffizi) in Florence. Photography, KIM Youngtae, Florence, Tuscany, Italy., Cambi, Ulisse (1807-1895) / Bridgeman Images
YOU4419708: Statue of Giovanni Boccaccio, known as Boccaccio (1313-1375), Italian writer, poet, author of Decameron, Sculpture by Odoardo Fantacchiotti (1811-1877), installed in the Piazzale des Uffizi (piazzale degli Uffizi) in Florence., Florence, Tuscany, Italy., Fantacchiotti, Oduardo (1809-77) / Bridgeman Images