Cellini, Benvenuto (1500-1571) Perseo con la testa di Medusa (Perseus with the Head of Medusa) 1545–1554 Bronze, h. 519 cm Piazza della Signoria, Firenze Compare: Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Perseo con la testa della Medusa 1804–1806 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York …
Masolino da Panicale (c.1383-c.1440) Tentazione di Adamo ed Eva (Temptation of Adam and Eve) 1425 Fresco, 208 x 88 cm Cappella Brancacci, Firenze
Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Annunciazione (Annunciation from San Martino alla Scala) 1481 Detached fresco, 243 x 555 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze The usual subject of the announcement to the Virgin Mary by archangel Gabriel is set in a renaissance palace, overlooking…
(1500–1571) The artist’s works: Saliera 1540–1543 Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna La nymphe de Fontainebleau 1542–1543 Musée du Louvre, Paris Perseo con la testa di Medusa 1545–1554 Piazza della Signoria, Firenze Bindo Altoviti 1549 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston Works: • Autobiography (English) • The treatises…
(1519–1589) Caterina Maria Romula di Lorenzo de’ Medici Queen consort of France (1547–1559) Queen regent of France (1560–1563) Works commissioned by her: Michelangelo (1475-1564) Disegno per una statua equestre di Enrico II 1559–1564 Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Born April 13 1519 Firenze (Italia)…
Gérôme, Jean-Léon (1824-1904) Dante méditant dans le jardin des Cascine à Florence (Dante meditating in the Cascine Garden in Florence) s.d. Engraving, 51 x 31 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris See also: • Alighieri, Dante (1265-1321) | Firenze (Italia)
Tiziano (c.1488-1576) La Bella (Portrait of a Lady) 1536–1538 Oil on canvas, 89 × 75.5 cm Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze The female portrait, known by its complimentary epithet “La Bella”, is one of the most famous paintings of the later years of…
Rosso Fiorentino (1495-1540) Angelo musicante (Angel playing the lute) 1521 Oil on panel, 39.5 x 47 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) Sacra Famiglia Medici (Madonna and Child, Saint Elizabeth and Saint John the Baptist) c.1529 Oil on panel, 140 × 104 cm Galleria Palatina, Palazzo Pitti, Firenze The scene is built with a diagonal layout of the four figures intent…
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo (1598-1680) San Lorenzo (Saint Lawrence) 1617 Marble, 66 x 108 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze