(1469–1527) Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli Works: • Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius (English) • History of Florence and of the Affairs of Italy (English) • La mandragola, La Clizia, Belfagor (Italian) • Machiavelli, Volume I (English)…
Parmigianino (1503-1540) Madonna dal collo lungo (Long-necked Madonna) 1534–1540 Oil on panel, 216.5 x 132.5 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
(1503–1540) Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, called Parmigianino The artist’s works: Santa Barbara 1522 Museo del Prado, Madrid Autoritratto entro uno specchio convesso c.1523–1524 Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Ritratto di un collezionista c.1523 National Gallery, London Uomo che sospende la lettura 1525–1526 Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna Visione…
Millais, John Everett (1829-1896) Self-portrait 1881 Oil on canvas, 86 x 65 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Beata Beatrix c.1864–1870 Oil on canvas, 86.4 x 66 cm Tate Britain, London Compare: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882) Beata Beatrix 1871–1872 Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago See also: • Alighieri, Dante (1265-1321) | Portinari, Beatrice (c.1266-1290) | Siddal, Elizabeth (1829-1862)
(1806–1861) Elizabeth Barrett Browning, née Elizabeth Barrett Moulton-Barrett Works: • Aurora Leigh (English) • ‘He Giveth His Beloved Sleep’ (English) • O May I Join the Choir Invisible! and Other Favorite Poems (English) • The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning,…
Carracci, Annibale (1560-1609) Ritratto di uomo con scimmia (Portrait of man with monkey) 1590–1591 Oil on canvas, 68 x 58.3 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Bacco (Bacchus) c.1598 Oil on canvas, 95 x 85 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze This painting is part of the author’s early series of half-length portraits painted ‘in chiaro’, which includes works such as the ‘Fruttaiolo’ (Boy with a…
Caravaggio (1571-1610) Medusa c.1597–1599 Oil on canvas mounted on wood, diam. 58 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Construction started: 1059 Opened: 1128 Address: Piazza San Giovanni, 50122 Firenze FI, Italia Website: https://duomo.firenze.it/it/scopri/battistero-di-san-giovanni Works of Art: • Ghiberti, Lorenzo (1378-1455): Porta del Paradiso (1425-52) The East Gate, with the crowning sculptures. See also: • Firenze (Italia)