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Ponte Vecchio Inspirations #1 Art Print
by Asbjorn Lonvig
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Ponte Vecchio Inspirations #1 art print by Asbjorn Lonvig. Our art prints are produced on acid-free papers using archival inks to guarantee that they last a lifetime without fading or loss of color. All art prints include a 1" white border around the image to allow for future framing and matting, if desired.
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The Ponte Vecchio (Old Bridge) is a Medieval bridge over the Arno River, in Florence, Italy, noted for still having shops built along it, as was once... more
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The Ponte Vecchio ("Old Bridge") is a Medieval bridge over the Arno River, in Florence, Italy, noted for still having shops built along it, as was once common. Butchers initially occupied the shops; the present tenants are jewelers, art dealers and souvenir sellers. It has been described as Europe's oldest wholly-stone, closed-spandrel segmental arch bridge, but there are far older segmental arch bridges such as Alconétar Bridge. The Ponte Vecchio's two neighbouring bridges are the Ponte Santa Trinità and the Ponte alle Grazie.
The bridge spans the Arno at its narrowest point where it is believed that a bridge was first built in Roman times, when the via Cassia crossed the river at this point. The Roman piers were of stone, the superstructure of wood. The bridge first appears in a document of 996. After being destroyed by a flood in 1117 it was reconstructed in stone but swept away again in 1333 save two of its central piers, as noted by Giovanni Villani in his Nuova Cronica. It wa...
About Asbjorn Lonvig
Lonvig is an award winning artist and designer from Denmark. He works in colorful simplicity. See a sample selection of 1,500+ "hand made" works selected from his life's work of 10,000. Goto www.lonvig.dk and click on the big cloud. Simultanously he is testing: AI generated art and design by Adobe Firefly BETA, Microsoft Bing, NightCafe, Hotbot, and Jasper are tested. Due to an ongoing discussion about AI and intellectual rights none of the AI genereted works on this web site are for commerciel use. Microsoft Clipchamp, GoogleHQ, and Google Site are tested. Ethereum Blockchain NFT technology is investigated due to security hassads in the crypto world.
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Carol Allen Anfinsen
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