The series of three paintings at the National Gallery in Britain reminded me of the loggia that is diagonally across fom the Palazzo Rucellai in Florence. (Read the creepy "Decameron" story by Bocaccio that was on the museum plaques. It's insane!)
I did a bit of research, and it turns out many loggias were built to commemorate political marriages. The loggia is a semi public space that was built as an outdoor covered space, that was probably used to have the wedding. Then used as a kind of civic/semi private ceremonial space. They also commemorateor document, misogyny during the Italian Renaissance.
Today, the loggia across from the Palazzo Rucellai was enclosed and contains a high end shoe store.
If you take my class, I have a longer video about the two palaces in Florence, the Medici Ricardi and the Rucellai.
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