Botticelli, Sandro (c.1445-1510) Primavera (Allegory of Spring) c.1480 Tempera on panel, 207 x 319 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze This painting, usually known as the Primavera [or ‘Spring’] shows nine figures from classic mythology advancing over a flowery lawn in a grove…
(c.1445–1510) Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi The artist’s works: Madonna col Bambino e angelo c.1465 Spedale degli Innocenti, Firenze Madonna col Bambino e un angelo c.1465–1467 Musée Fesch, Ajaccio Madonna col Bambino e angeli 1468–1469 Museo di Capodimonte, Napoli Madonna con Bambino,…
(1923–2019) Gian Franco Corsi Zeffirelli, KBE, Grande Ufficiale OMRI Member of the Italian Senate (1994–2001) Filmography as Director: The Taming of the Shrew 1967 Director: Franco Zeffirelli Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton Romeo and Juliet 1968 Director: Franco…
Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Venus Italica 1812 Marble, h. 171.5 cm Galleria Palatina, Firenze In 1802, passing through Florence and at the height of his notoriety, Antonio Canova was commissioned by the King of Etruria, Ludovico di Borbone, to make a copy…
Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) & Workshop Busto di Napoleone (Bust of Napoleon Bonaparte) c.1810 Marble, h. 77 cm Galleria Palatina, Firenze See also: • Napoleon I (1769-1821)
Canova, Antonio (1757-1822) Autoritratto (Self-portrait) 1792 Oil on canvas, 68 × 54.5 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze
Raffaello (1483-1520) Ritratto del Cardinale Bibbiena (Portrait of Cardinal Bibbiena) c.1516 Oil on panel, 85 x 66.5 cm Galleria Palatina, Firenze Bernardo Dovizi (Bibbiena 1470– Rome 1520) was a scholar and a diplomat, as well as a friend and trusted private secretary…
Raffaello (1483-1520) Ritratto di Tommaso Inghirami detto “Fedra” (Portrait of Tommaso Inghirami called ‘Phaedra’) c.1510– 1511 Oil on panel, 89.5 x 62.5 cm Galleria Palatina, Firenze The subject, dressed in a red with a white sash, and wearing a red cap, emerges…
Raffaello (1483-1520) La Velata (Woman with a Veil) c.1512–1515 Oil on canvas, 82 x 60.5 cm Galleria Palatina, Firenze The veil over the hair, from which the name of this splendid work by Raphael is derived, indicates that the woman is…
Raffaello (1483-1520) & Workshop Ritratto di papa Giulio II (Portrait of Pope Julius II) c.1512 Tempera on panel, 107 x 80 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze Giuliano della Rovere (Albissola, Savona 1443- Rome 1513) was pope from 1503 to 1513 under…