French-born street artist JR has placed a massive, black-and-white image over the front facade of the Palazzo Strozzi in Florence, making it seem as if the cultural building has been ripped open and its interiors revealed.
Called “La Ferita” (“The Wound”), the work scales the three-story, 15th century palace and reflects its interiors with its arches and courtyard. The monochrome design, which contrasts with the building’s golden, rusticated stone facade, also has a touch of surrealism, as JR has inserted both Sandro Botticelli’s Primavera and his Birth of Venus paintings that are actually housed at Florence’s Uffizi Galleries.
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