Statue of Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian explorer.
Statue located outside of the Uffizi museum in Florence, Italy. One of the oldest art museums in the Western World. Semi enclosed figurative statues such as this appear all over Florence. Statue of Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian explorer who demonstrated that the 'New World' was an undiscovered country, not Asia as had been assumed. America's namesake.