Savonarola's Bonfire of the Vanities
1497 · Event
Mirrors, cosmetics, playing cards and paintings burned in the Piazza della Signoria at the friar's urging; Botticelli is said to have thrown in his own work.
On these timelines: Italy (post-476 CE), Renaissance, Master, Christianity, Major Religions
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