Florentine Faces

There are faces everywhere in Florence, not just the people in the streets and restaurants but faces stare at you from the public statuary, from the walls of buildings and in museums and churches. There are faces of haughty gods striding through the streets, like Neptune:


There are coldly beautiful faces, such as Perseus as he kills Medusa:


There are influential faces like that of Machiavelli:


And the death mask of Dante:


Dante is also found in statuary, with his face based on the death mask:


And Leonardo da Vinci in a niche outside the Uffizi Gallery, along with dozens of other artists:


Possibly most touching is the self-portrait of Michaelangelo which he carved in his final Pieta, with the dead Christ held in his arms: