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• Breath of the Past

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  Fresco ['frɛskəʊ] (frescoes or frescos) a painting done rapidly in watercolour on wet plaster on a wall or ceiling, so that the colours penetrate the plaster and become fixed as it dries .  This method of painting was used in Roman times and by the great masters of the Italian Renaissance including Giotto, Raphael, and Michelangelo.
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  Tags: affresco, frescos, Giotto, Italian Renaissance, michelangelo, Oxford Dictionary of English, Raphael, watercolor paiting
  
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• A clock tower. Counting centuries

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  Palazzo Vecchio clock counts quarters, halves, hours, days, months, years, centuries…Â
  Mary, Russia

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• Daily Mirror

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  A ready-made picture in a carved wooden frame! Sorry, we sell a frame and a reflecting glass ONLY.
  Mary, Russia

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• Lights of the epoch

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  Streets of Florence can tell an attentive tourist a lot of interesting facts from History. A house. His story will be about streetlamps. Many centuries ago, when there were no lamps invented and they used torches to light the rooms and halls of palazzi (palaces) & castelli (castles) the streets were lit with torches too. [...]

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  Tags: attentive tourist, castelli, electricity, gas burners, history, palazzi, streetlamps, streets of Florence, torch lamps
  
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