Filming of the movie Inferno, which is based on the fourth novel by Dan Brown in the Langdon series, will start shooting in April in beautiful Florence, a city full of mystery that links various works of art with the pages of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, open for all to interpret.
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Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446) was a Florentine architect and sculptor credited for helping to create the Renaissance style in architecture. His most famous work, the dome of the Santa Maria del Fiore Cathedral in Florence, was mentioned in the latest novel Inferno by Dan Brown.
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Santa Maria Novella is a Florentine church situated just across from the main railway station of the same name mentioned in Dan Brown’s novel Inferno. Historically, it is the first great basilica in Florence, and it is the main Dominican church in the city.
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Andrea Orcagna, originally known as Andrea di Cione, was one of the most prominent Florentine painter, sculptor, and architect of the mid-14th century. He is mentioned in Dan Brown’s latest novel Inferno. To be specific, the novel’s main character Robert Langdon refers to the terrifying black demon whose red hair is smeared with the blood of his victims and who is attributed to Orcagna.
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Situated between Piazza Strozzi and via Tornabuoni in the heart of Florence, the city in which Dan Brown’s novel Inferno is set, Palazzo Strozzi is one of the finest examples of Renaissance domestic architecture.
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Robert Langdon – the main character in Dan Brown’s Inferno – witnessed Giorgio Vasari’s fresco of the Last Judgment after Ignazio Busoni’s funeral while he was wandering around the interior of the Florence duomo, admiring the artwork that Ignazio had so deeply esteemed.
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We continue our series of interviews to discover how the City of Florence, in which Dan Brown’s novel Inferno is set, is perceived by tourists and expats from around the world.
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“… Their driver was a strikingly handsome man in a tailored Armani suit. He looked more like a movie star than a skipper, but this was, after all, Venice, the land of Italian elegance.”
This passage describes the moment in which Robert Langdon, traveling with his friends from Santa Lucia station to St. Mark’s square in Venice, expresses all his knowledge and respect for one of the biggest brand of the italian fashion industry: Giorgio Armani.
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