* the bronze statue Goddess Opi ( 1572 – 75 ), Palazzo Vecchio, Florence

He was asked by the consuls of the Guild of Wool to complete an unfinished project begun 40 years earlier by Agostino di Duccio: a colossal statue portraying David as a symbol of Florentine freedom, to be placed in the Piazza della Signoria, in front of the Palazzo Vecchio.

Palazzo Vecchio seen from the Uffizi in Florence.

View toward the Palazzo Vecchio, in Florence

* The Signoria of Florence commissions both Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo to paint the walls of the Grand Council Chamber in the Palazzo Vecchio.

He started as a wood-carver, and between 1491 and 1502 did much of the decorative carving in the church of Santa Maria Novella and the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence.

Having made his reputation as a sculptor he appears to have turned his attention to architecture, and to have studied at Rome, though the precise date is uncertain ; but at the beginning of the sixteenth century he was engaged with the architect Simone del Pollaiolo in restoring the Palazzo Vecchio, and in 1506 he was commissioned to complete the drum of the cupola of the church of Santa Maria del Fiore.

The Castration of Uranus ( mythology ) | Uranus: fresco by Vasari & Cristofano Gherardi ( c. 1560, Sala di Cosimo I, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence ).

* " Judith and Holofernes " ( 1455 – 1460 ) — Palazzo Vecchio, Florence

Hercules and Cacus ( Palazzo Vecchio, Florence )

His biographer, Antonio Manetti, described this famous experiment in which Brunelleschi painted two panels: the first of the Florentine Baptistery as viewed frontally from the western portal of the unfinished cathedral, and second the Palazzo Vecchio as seen obliquely from its northwest corner.

Many of his pictures still exist, the most important being the wall and ceiling paintings in the great Sala di Cosimo I of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, where he and his assistants were at work from 1555, and the frescoes he started inside the vast cupola of the Duomo, completed by Federico Zuccari and with the help of Giovanni Balducci.

He also helped organize the decoration of the Studiolo, now reassembled in the Palazzo Vecchio.

The Castration of Uranus: fresco by Vasari & Cristofano Gherardi ( c. 1560, Sala di Cosimo I, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence ).

* The Weehawken Water Tower on Park Avenue was built in 1883 as part of the Hackensack Water Company Complex, and inspired by Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy.

* Orpheus for Palazzo Vecchio, now in the courtyard of the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi.

* Works in Palazzo Vecchio, including, in the Audience Hall, a statue of Grand Duke Cosimo I de ' Medici and one of Pope Leo X blessing ( finished after Bandinelli's death by Vincenzo de ' Rossi )

Francesco de ' Rossi ( Il Salviati ) | Francesco Salviati, Triumph of Furius Camillus, Fresco in the Salone dei Cinquecento, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, Italy.

At a UNESCO meeting at the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence in June 1950, he called for the establishment of regional laboratories.

From 1481 to 1485, he was employed on frescoes in the Sala dell ' Orologio of the Palazzo Vecchio ; for its Sala del Giglio he frescoed an Apotheosis of St. Zenobius ( 1482 ), an over-life-sized work with an elaborate architectural framework, figures of Roman heroes, and other secular details, striking in its perspective and structural / compositional skill.

From Bacon to Now ‑ The Outsider in British Figuration, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence

Keith Patrick, Maité Lores: From Bacon to Now ‑ The Outsider in British Figuration, Palazzo Vecchio, Florence

On December 31, 1482 he was commissioned to work on a wall of Sala dell ' Udienza of Palazzo Vecchio in Florence ( a work never begun ).

The work on the Sala degli Otto di Pratica, in the Palazzo Vecchio, started on February 20, 1486.

From the Palazzo Spada you continue another block along the Via Capo Di Ferro and Vicolo De Venti to the imposing Palazzo Farnese, begun in 1514 and considered by many to be the finest palace of all.

As a cardinal, Alessandro had begun construction of a palace, the Palazzo Farnese, in central Rome.

The Palazzo was begun in 1172 and finished in 1219.

Palazzo Castellania is also located along Merchants ' Street and was begun to the designs of Maltese architect Francesco Zerafa in 1748.

* The Palazzo Comunale ( begun 1460 ), Palazzo del Podestà ( 1264 ) and Palazzo della Prefettura ( rebuilt 1771 ) on the central square Piazza del Plebiscito.

* Palazzo Farnese, begun in 1568 by Ottavio Farnese and his wife, Margaret of Austria.

* The main attraction of Urbino is the Palazzo Ducale, begun in the second half of the 15th century by Federico II da Montefeltro.

Two famous grottoes in the Boboli Gardens of Palazzo Pitti were begun by Vasari and completed by Ammanati and Buontalenti between 1583 and 1593.

* Palazzo Comunale ( begun in 1414 ), with the Tricolore's Room and the Museum of the Italian Flag.

His masterpiece is a series of frescoes in the Palazzo del Consiglio in the same city, which represent the Lives of St. Louis of Toulouse and St. Herculanus ; they were begun in 1454 and not finished in 1496, in which year Bonfigli's will is dated.

* The Palazzo Comunale ( Town Hall ), with a portico entrance, was begun in 1572 by Giacomo della Porta on a design by Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola, and finished in 1741 by Filippo Barigioni.

It is housed in the Renaissance Palazzo Vitelleschi, begun in 1436 and completed around 1480-1490

The Palazzo was begun in 1172 and finished in 1219.

This is why Palazzo Vecchio, begun in the 1290s, is not in the center of the piazza, as one might expect, but squeezed over to one side.

Moved to the Palazzo Barberini, then moved to the Vatican by Pope Clement XIV ; finally erected on the Pincian by Pope Pius VII in 1822.

Opposite is the Palazzo Mattei, one of Rome's oldest palaces, now the headquarters of the Italo-American Association.

Eden reported that Mussolini's headquarters, the magnificent Palazzo Venezia in central Rome and his private residence, Villa Torlonia, were both " unmistakeable " and could easily be identified by British bombers.

The Palace of the Genoese podestà Montano de Marinis, known as the Palazzo del Comune ( Palace of the Municipality ) in the Genoese period and built in 1316, still stands in ruins on Banker Sokak ( the historic Rue Camondo ); a narrow side street that's parallel to the neighbouring Bankalar Caddesi ( Banks Street ) which was the financial center of the Ottoman Empire and has rows of Ottoman-era bank buildings, including the headquarters of the Ottoman Central Bank, which is today the Ottoman Bank Museum.

The Accademia di Belle Arti and the adjoining Gallery still occupy the premises that were assigned in Via Ricasoli, a former convent and hospice, while the headquarters of the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno nowadays is Palazzo dell ' Arte dei Beccai.

Flags flying at half-staff over Palazzo di Malta, headquarters of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, after the death of the Grand Master Andrew Bertie

In the 20s Palazzo Barbarigo was the headquarters of Pauly & C .-Compagnia Venezia Murano, the oldest of actually brands of venetian glass factory.

* General Inspectorate of Public Security for Palace of the Viminale ( Ispettorato Generale di Pubblica Sicurezza presso il Palazzo del Viminale ) The Viminale is the headquarters of the Italian Ministry of Interior ;

It has been the region headquarters until the completion of the new Palazzo Lombardia in 2010, where the offices have been moved.

< center > Palazzo Salimbeni the headquarters, in piazza Salimbeni The bank's main shareholder is the Fondazione Monte dei Paschi di Siena.

MPS headquarters in the Palazzo Salimbeni in Siena hosts an art collection and a large number of priceless historical documents spanning the centuries of its existence.

In 1800 it was occupied by the troops of Napoleon, who set his headquarters in the Palazzo Dattili for the battle of Montebello.

Together with the young democrats Enrico Cernuschi, Giulio Terzaghi and Giorgio Clerici he formed a council of war which, having its headquarters at Palazzo Taverna in via Bigli, directed the operations of the insurgents.

It is also informally known as Piazza Affari (" Business Square "), after the city square of Milan where its headquarters ( the Palazzo Mezzanotte building ) is located.