And this love of art is still happening in Florence! I was in Florence in May and saw a great exhibition of Picasso, Miro and Dali. It was inspirational. I love seeing the work of those three spellbinding men, who lived such interesting and amazing lives mixing with people of all the arts, writers, photographers, musicians, all in together inspiring each other.
Have a look at this room in this Florentine palace - once the home of a noble family and now made into a hotel in which everything is still preserved as it was. Nothing much has changed - the Palazzo still has the feel of a noble home and the ambience of all its former glory.
Imagine painting a room like this and your legacy is there for a couple of hundred years. Now this is great patronage of artists. Art was and is still is appreciated in Florence.
http://www.passionforitaly.com/Florence-Hotel-in-Palazzo-417.html
The artist who painted this room indeed created in the words of Virginia Woolf "A Room of his Own!
