TORRE DEI MANNELLI

Today view

View 1945 Photo Patellani Federico
Museo della Fotografia Contemporanea, Cinisello Balsamo, Milano

The Torre dei Mannelli is a small tower on the southeast corner of the Ponte Vecchio bridge in Florence. It was built to defend the bridge and in 1565, the Mannelli family refused to have it altered or demolished so that the Corridoio Vasariano could be built in a straight line. Instead the corridor swerved round it on brackets.Fonte Wikipedia

In 2004 I painted ​​these two cupboards for a hall on the top floor of the Tower. They are painted in tempera with natural glue and pure pigments.