Still looking up in Florence

Detail of ceiling in Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Fresco by Francesco de 'Rossi, known as Francesco Salviati, 1543-1545, in the Sala delle Udienze, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Grotesques in Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Trompe l’oeil frescoes by Angelo Michele Colonna (1604–87), Palazzo Pitti, Florence. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Grotesque head beside window in Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

From Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

San Lorenzo Church, Florence, with view of constellations painted on transept dome from c. 1422. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Looking up in Florence

Detail of Bronzino’s frescoes in the Cappella di Eleanora, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Grotesque with butterfly, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Bronzino’s portrait of Eleanor of Toledo surrounded by paintings from the school of Vasari in the Studiolo di Francesco I, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Grotesque with butterfly, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.

Fresco by Francesco de 'Rossi, known as Francesco Salviati, 1543-1545, in the Sala delle Udienze, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. Photo by Renée DeVoe Mertz.