File Galleria degli Uffizi court crop.JPG thumb The narrow courtyard between the Uffizi s two wings creates the effect of a short, idealized street view toward the River Arno Image Uffizi Hallway.jpg thumb ... Ceiling frescos in the main corridor The Uffizi Gallery lang it Galleria degli Uffizi , IPA it alle ria ... hence the name uffizi offices . Construction was continued to Giorgio Vasari Vasari s design ... century. The Palazzo degli Uffizi brought together under one roof the administrative offices, the Tribunal ... Buontalenti the famous Tribuna of the Uffizi Tribuna degli Uffizi that united a selection of the outstanding ... Vasari , who was not only the architect of the Uffizi but also the author of Lives of the Artists , published in 1550 and 1568, artists such as Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo gathered at the Uffizi for beauty, for work and for recreation. ref Fossi, Gloria. The Uffizi. Giuniti, 1999 , p. 8. ref ... Mafia who were engaged in a period of terrorism at that time. Today, the Uffizi is one of the most ... collections in Florence severely, including the Uffizi. Collections Here is a selection from the collection ... fine antiques in the Uffizi. The museum is mentioned in Book 1, chapter 24 of Henry James s novel Portrait of a Lady. You d have liked a few things from the Uffizi and the Pitti that what you ... is carried to some steps in the Uffizi Arcade by George Emerson, when she faints after witnessing a murder ... an unfortunate Uffizi fiasco, which shows the facade of the famed museum in flames. A racetrack of the same ... Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato . See also Category Collections of the Uffizi Collections of the Uffizi Notes Reflist External links commons Uffizi commons Galleria degli Uffizi Official website http ... website The New Uffizi http www.turismo.intoscana.it intoscana2 export TurismoRTen sito TurismoRTen Contenuti Elementi interesse Musei visualizza asset.html 753553155.html Uffizi Gallery, Florence ... museums uffizi Florence landmarks Category Art museums and galleries in Florence ... more details
The Tribuna of the Uffizi size 300px align right The Tribuna of the Uffizi is an octagon al room in the Uffizi gallery, Florence , Italy . Designed by Bernardo Buontalenti for Francesco I de Medici in the late 1580s, the most important antiquities and High Renaissance and Bolognese paintings from the Medici collection were and still are displayed here. In 1737 the Grand Duchess Anna Maria Luisa de Medici ceded the collection to the Tuscan government, and by the 1770s the Uffizi and in particular the Tribuna was the hub for Grand Tour ists visiting Florence. Johann Zoffany s Tribuna of the Uffizi painting famous painting of it commissioned by Queen Charlotte of the United Kingdom in 1772 portrays the north east section, but varies the arrangement and brings in works not normally displayed in the Tribuna e.g. , Raphael s Madonna della Sedia . Admiring the works of art are connoisseurs, diplomats and visitors to Florence, all identifiable. References reflist coord missing Italy DEFAULTSORT Tribuna Of The Uffizi Category Art museums and galleries in Florence Uffizi Category 1580s establishments fr Tribune des Offices hu Uffizi Gal ria Tribuna terme ... more details
Infobox Painting image file The Tribuna of the Uffizi 1772 78 Zoffany, Johann.jpg painting alignment image size 350px title The Tribuna of the Uffizi artist Johann Zoffany year 1772 78 type Oil painting height 123.5 width 155.0 height inch width inch diameter cm diameter inch city Windsor Castle museum Royal Collection The Tribuna of the Uffizi 1772&ndash 1778 by Johann Zoffany is a painting of the north east section of the Tribuna of the Uffizi Tribuna room in the Uffizi in Florence , Italy . Production In the summer of 1772 Zoffany left London for Florence with a commission from Queen Charlotte to paint the Florence Gallery . Neither she nor her husband George III of the United Kingdom George III ever visited Italy in person. Still working on the painting late in 1777, he only finally returned to England in 1779. History Johann Zoffany was a German born painter who had become a successful in London. One of his principal patrons was the Royal family. Queen Charlotte had sent Zoffany to Florence where he had agreed to paint the Tribuna of the Uffizi . The agreed price was high and he was paid 300 a year. ref name royal http www.royalcollection.org.uk eGallery object.asp?object 406983&row 0&detail about Tribuna of the Uffizi , Royal Collection, accessed April 2010 ref Artworks shown Zoffany has varied the arrangement of the artworks and introduced others from elsewhere in the Medici collection. He gained special privileges, with the help of George, 3rd Earl Cowper 1738 80 , and Sir Horace Mann, 1st Baronet 1706 86 , such as having seven paintings, including Raphael s Madonna ... to him. List The Tribuna of the Uffizi align right size 400px Expand list date August 2008 Arrotino ... wall Rubens, Justus Lipsius with his Pupils , middle of right wall Uffizi Wrestlers The Two Wrestlers ... Piece Scenes of Fashionable Life 2009 DEFAULTSORT Tribuna Of The Uffizi Painting Category ... of the United Kingdom Category Uffizi fr La Tribune des Offices hi hu Uffizi ... more details
Coronation of the Virgin , also in the Uffizi. References reflist commonscat Coronation of the Virgin by Angelico Uffizi Sources cite book authorlink John Pope Hennessy first John last Pope Hennessy ... by Fra Angelico Category 1430s paintings Category Paintings by Fra Angelico Category Collections of the Uffizi it Incoronazione della Vergine Angelico Uffizi pl Koronacja Matki Boskiej z anio ami i wi tymi ... more details
Fra Angelico painted two Coronation of the Virgin Coronation of the Virgin Fra Angelico, Uffizi Coronation of the Virgin at the Uffizi , from c. 1432 Coronation of the Virgin Fra Angelico, Louvre Coronation of the Virgin at the Louvre , from c. 1434 1435 disambiguation ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Infobox Painting image file Sandro Botticelli 060.jpg title Madonna of the Pomegranate artist Sandro Botticelli year c. 1487 type Tempera on panel height width diameter metric 143.5 143.5 city Florence museum Uffizi The Madonna of the Pomegranate is a painting by the Italy Italian Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli , circa 1487. It is housed in the Uffizi Uffizi Gallery of Florence , Italy. Several copies of the work exist, currently held at the Berlin Berlin State Museums State Museums , the Wernher Collection in London and the Aynard Collection at Lyon . DEFAULTSORT Madonna Of The Pomegranate Category 1500s paintings Category Botticelli paintings in the Uffizi es Virgen de la granada fr La Vierge la grenade it Madonna della Melagrana zh ... more details
Infobox Painting image file fortitude.jpg title Fortitude artist Sandro Botticelli year 1470 type Tempera on panel height 167 width 87 museum Uffizi, Florence The Fortitude is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli , finished in 1470. It is housed in the Galleria degli Uffizi , in Florence . Fortitude is the first recorded work by Botticelli. This work originally belonged to a set of seven panels representing Virtues , intended to decorate the Tribunal Hall of Palazzo della Signoria Piazza della Signoria in Florence. The other six panels are not painted by Botticelli. External links http www.polomuseale.firenze.it english musei uffizi Default.asp Museum website Botticelli Category Botticelli paintings in the Uffizi Category 1470 paintings Painting stub es Fortaleza Botticelli fr La Force Botticelli it Fortezza Botticelli ... more details
Infobox Painting image file Botticelli Sant Agostino.jpg title Saint Augustine in His Cell artist Sandro Botticelli year 1490 1494 type Tempera on panel height 41 width 27 museum Uffizi city Florence Saint Augustine in His Cell , is a painting by the Italian Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli , finished around 1490 1494. It is housed in the Uffizi , in Florence . This work was probably executed for an Augustinian hermit of Santo Spirito, Florence Santo Spirito , as shown by the fact the saint wears both episcopal and hermit garments. As many of Botticelli s late works, it is inspired by the preaching of Savonarola . See also Saint Augustine Botticelli References reflist External links http www.artonline.it opera.asp?IDOpera 277 Page at artonline.it it icon Botticelli DEFAULTSORT Saint Augustine In His Cell Botticelli Category 1490s paintings Category Botticelli paintings in the Uffizi es San Agust n en su gabinete Botticelli, Uffizi fr Saint Augustin dans son cabinet de travail Botticelli, Offices it Sant Agostino nello studio Botticelli Uffizi ... more details
Infobox Painting image file Giorgione 025.jpg title The Test of Fire of Moses artist Giorgione year 1500 1501 type Oil on panel height 89 width 72 city Florence museum Uffizi The Test of Fire of Moses is a painting by the Italy Italian Renaissance master Giorgione 1500 1501 . It is housed in the Galleria degli Uffizi of Florence . The work is dimensionally and thematically similar to the Judgement of Salomon Giorgione Judgement of Salomon , also in the Uffizi, and is dated to the years immediately after Giorgione s moving to Venice. The episode is taken from the Talmud , and was probably commissioned ref http www.artonline.it opera.asp?IDOpera 959 ref by an acculturated person who was not entirely following to the official Roman Catholic positions. The horizontal setting is similar to that in Giovanni Bellini s Holy Allegory , also in the Uffizi, and allows the painter to give importance to the landscape. In the latter s care for detail are evident influences from Northern Europe painting. Notes reflist External links http www.virtualuffizi.com uffizi1 Uffizi Pictures.asp?Contatore 216 Image of Moses Undergoes Trial by Fire , next to the Judgement of Solomon at Uffizi Gallery DEFAULTSORT Test of Fire of Moses Category 1500s paintings Category Paintings by Giorgione Category Collections of the Uffizi it Prova di Mos th ... more details
Infobox Painting image file Sandro Botticelli 080.jpg title The Annunciation artist Sandro Botticelli year 1489 1490 type Tempera on panel height 150 width 156 city Florence museum Uffizi The Annunciation , also known as the Cestello Annunciation , is a tempera painting by the Italy Italian Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli , circa 1489 1490. fact date November 2011 It is housed in the Uffizi Uffizi Gallery of Florence . The picture was commissioned in 1489 by the church of the Florentine convent of Cestello which is now known as Santa Maria Maddalena dei Pazzi Santa Maria Maddalena de Pazzi . fact date November 2011 Underneath the painting on its original frame are words in Latin from St. Luke s Gospel 1 35 The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee. Botticelli Category 1480s paintings Category Annunciation in Christian art Category Botticelli paintings in the Uffizi bg el es Anunciaci n de Cestello fr L Annonciation du Cestello it Annunciazione di Cestello th ... more details
Infobox Painting image file Angelo Bronzino 049.jpg title Portrait of Bartolomeo Panciatichi artist Agnolo Bronzino year c. 1540 type Oil on panel height 104 width 85 city Florence museum Uffizi The Portrait of Bartolomeo Panciatichi is a painting by the Italian artist Agnolo di Cosimo , known as Bronzino , finished around 1540. It is housed in the Uffizi Gallery of Florence , Italy . Bartolomeo Panciatichi was a Florentine humanist and politician. His wife was also portrayed by Bronzino a few years later. In view of the fact that he was suspected as sympathetic to Lutheranism it is interesting the traveller William Thomas, eventually executed for rebellion against the marriage of Philip and Mary, stayed in Florence with Panciatichi in the mid 1540s see Edward Chaney, The Evolution of the Grand Tour , 2nd ed. Routledge, 2000 , pp 71 72 . See also Portrait of Lucrezia Panciatichi br DEFAULTSORT Portrait Of Bartolomeo Panciatichi Category 1540s paintings Category Bronzino portraits Bartolomeo Panciatichi Category Collections of the Uffizi Category Bronzino paintings in the Uffizi Painting stub Italy stub br Poltred Bartolomeo Panciatichi it Ritratto di Bartolomeo Panciatichi ... more details
Infobox Painting image file Memnling, ritratto di folco di portinari.jpg title Portrait of Folco Portinari artist Hans Memling year c. 1490 image size 260px type Oil on panel height 35 width 25 city Florence museum Uffizi Gallery The Portrait of Folco Portinari is a painting by the Germans German painter Hans Memling , dating to c. 1490. It is displayed in the Uffizi Gallery of Florence , Italy . History The painting, for a period, was attributed to Antonello da Messina . It is documented for the first time at the Uffizi in 1863, assigned to an anonymous Flemish artist. Later, together with three other paintings in the gallery Portrait of Benedetto Portinari , Portrait of an Unknown Man in a Landscape and Man with a Letter , the painting was attributed to Memling due to its high quality. Of the four, the portrait of Folco Portinari is considered the latest one. The identification with Folco Portinari is anyway hypothetical. Sources cite book author title Galleria degli Uffizi year 2003 publisher Scala location Rome Category 1490s paintings Category Paintings by Hans Memling it Ritratto di Folco Portinari ... more details
Infobox Painting image file MadonnaLoggiaBotticelli.jpg title Madonna della Loggia artist Sandro Botticelli year 1467 type Tempera on panel height 72 width 50 museum Uffizi, Florence The Madonna della Loggia is a painting attributed to the Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli , dating to c. 1467. A tempera on panel work, it is located in the Uffizi , Florence , Italy. External links http www.wga.hu art b botticel 1early 03loggia.jpg Page at www.wga.hu br painting stub BR Botticelli Category 1467 paintings Category Botticelli paintings in the Uffizi be , es Virgen de la galer a fr La Vierge de la loggia it Madonna della Loggia ru th ... more details
Infobox Painting image file Angelo Bronzino 045.jpg title Portrait of Lucrezia Panciatichi artist Agnolo Bronzino year c. 1545 type Oil on panel height 102 width 85 city Florence museum Uffizi The Portrait of Lucrezia Panciatichi is a painting by the Italian artist Agnolo di Cosimo , known as Bronzino , finished around 1545. It is housed in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence , Italy. Lucrezia di Sigismondo Pucci was the wife of Bartolomeo Panciatichi , a Florentine humanist and politician, also portrayed by Bronzino in another Uffizi portrait. Giorgio Vasari describes the two portrays as so natural that they seem truly living . The show of refined garments and jewelry was intended not only to underline the lite position of the woman, but also aspects of her personality through a complex symbology, including the words Amour dure sans fin on the golden necklace, a reference to a love treatise written for the Grand Duke of Florence, Cosimo I de Medici , in 1547. See also Portrait of Bartolomeo Panciatichi External links commonscat inline Lucrezia Panciatichi DEFAULTSORT Portrait Of Lucrezia Panciatichi Category 1540s paintings Category Bronzino portraits Lucrezia Panciatichi Category Collections of the Uffizi Category Bronzino paintings in the Uffizi Painting stub Italy stub br Poltred Lucrezia Panciatichi es Lucrezia Panciatichi pintura it Ritratto di Lucrezia Panciatichi ... more details
Infobox Painting image file Giorgione, giudizio di salomone.jpg title The Judgment of Salomon artist Giorgione year 1500 1501 type Oil on panel height 89 width 72 city Florence museum Uffizi The Judgment of Salomon is a painting by the Italy Italian Renaissance master Giorgione 1500 1501 . It is housed in the Galleria degli Uffizi of Florence . The work is dimensionally and thematically similar to the the Test of Fire of Moses Giorgione Test of Fire of Moses , also in the Uffizi. It shows Solomon , King of the Jews, on the throne, with the court dignitaries and two women at his feet. The two women were both claiming the same child and had appealed to the King. Solomon s choice unmasked the faking one. Behind them are two large oaks which divide the landscape into two parts. A Ferrarese school paintings Ferrarese assistant collaborated with Giorgione in the realization of the figures. See also Judgment of Solomon External links http www.virtualuffizi.com uffizi1 Uffizi Pictures.asp?Contatore 217 Image of The Judgment of Salomon with the test of Fire , at Uffizi Gallery DEFAULTSORT Judgment Of Salomon, The Category 1500s paintings Category Paintings by Giorgione Category Collections of the Uffizi Category Paintings with biblical themes Category Solomon bg es El juicio de Salom n Giorgione it Giudizio di Salomone Giorgione th ... more details
Infobox Painting image file Sanzio 00.jpg painting alignment image size 200px title Self portrait artist Raphael year 1504 1506 type Oil on board height 47.5 width 33 height inch width inch city Florence museum Uffizi The Self portrait is a 1504 1506 painting by Raphael , now held in the Uffizi . It measures 47.5 cm by 33 cm. In early 2011 two slightly different copies of the painting became known there was a debate over which was the real painting but it was concluded that they are both possibly from Raphael s hand. It is first acknowledged in art history in 1631 when it was in the Ducal Collection in Urbino. In 1890 it is first noted as being in the Uffizi gallery , where it has remained since. ref http www.openraphael.org 2011 07 uffizi self portrait.html Openraphael.org ref The first study of it took place in 1984 and it was done by Gian Lorenzo Mellini. ref http news.discovery.com history identical raphael self portraits stir debate over authenticity.html Discovery News ref It was also first publicly displayed in the Uffizi in that year. References references Raphael DEFAULTSORT Self Portrait Raphael Category Raphael portraits Category Raphael paintings in the Uffizi Category 1500s paintings Category Self portraits Raphael az Avtoportret Rafael fr Autoportrait Rapha l it Autoritratto Raffaello pl Autoportret obraz Rafaela tr Kendi portresi Raphael uk ... more details
Infobox Painting image file Piero di cosimo, incarnazione.jpg title Immaculate Conception with Saints image size 420px artist Piero di Cosimo year c. 1498 or c. 1510 type Oil on panel height 206 width 172 city Florence museum Uffizi The Immaculate Conception with Saints also known as The Incarnation of Jesus is a painting by the Italy Italian Renaissance painter Piero di Cosimo , executed in c. 1498 or c. 1510 ref Gloria Fossi, Galleria degli Uffizi Arte storia collezioni , p. 202 ref It is housed in the Uffizi Gallery of Florence , Italy . The painting was executed for the Tebaldi Chapel in the church of Annunziata, Florence the Annunziata of Florence, and was acquired by Cardinal Leopoldo de Medici in 1670. It was moved to the Uffizi in 1804. ref Gloria Fossi, Galleria degli Uffizi Arte storia collezioni , p. 202 ref The work shows the Virgin in a central and illuminated position, with a dove hovering above her head. She is flanked by the Saints Catherine, John the Evangelist, Filippo Benizzi, Antoninus, Peter and Margaret. In the background is a typical Piero s landscape, with two hills characterized by rock with human and beast appearance, where the other scenes of the Adoration of the Magi , the Annunciation to the Shepherds and the Flight to Egypt are depicted. References reflist Sources cite book title Galleria degli Uffizi Arte storia collezioni publisher Giunti year 2001 first Gloria last Fossi page 202 DEFAULTSORT Immaculate Conception With Saints Piero Di Cosimo Category Paintings by Piero di Cosimo Category 1510 paintings Category 1498 paintings Category Collections of the Uffizi Italy stub fr L Incarnation du Christ it Incarnazione di Cristo Piero di Cosimo ... more details
Infobox Painting image file Piero di Cosimo 039.jpg title Perseus Freeing Andromeda image size 420px artist Piero di Cosimo year 1510 or 1513 type Oil on panel height 70 width 123 city Florence museum Uffizi For the painting with the same name by Pieter Paul Rubens , see Perseus Freeing Andromeda Rubens Perseus Freeing Andromeda is a painting by the Italy Italian Renaissance painter Piero di Cosimo , c. executed in 1510 or 1513 ref Gloria Fossi, Galleria degli Uffizi Arte storia collezioni , p. 202 ref It is housed in the Uffizi Gallery of Florence , Italy . The painting is mentioned in 1568 by Giorgio Vasari , who states that it was commissioned by Filippo Strozzi the Elder , and gifted by Giovanni Battista Strozzi to a member of Cosimo de Medici s personnel. The work shows the Greek mythology mythological hero Perseus mythology Perseus killing the monster who had entrapped Andromeda mythology Andromeda . Piero gave a great deal of attention to the background, perhaps inspired to the contemporary Flemish school ref Gloria Fossi, Galleria degli Uffizi Arte storia collezioni , p. 202 ref details include the two characters with a turban on the left, the very detailed painting of the water on the shore, and the fantastic musical instruments. commons category Perseus frees Andromeda by Piero di Cosimo References reflist Sources cite book title Galleria degli Uffizi Arte storia collezioni publisher Giunti year 2001 first Gloria last Fossi page 202 Category Paintings by Piero di Cosimo Category 1510 paintings Category 1513 paintings Category Collections of the Uffizi Italy stub el it Liberazione di Andromeda ... more details
Infobox Painting image file Cranach, ritratto di donna, uffizi.jpg title Female Portrait artist Lucas Cranach the Elder and workshop year c. 1530 type Oil on panel height 42 image size 300px width 29 museum Uffizi city Florence The Female Portrait is a painting by German Renaissance master Lucas Cranach the Elder , dating from around 1530, now housed in the Uffizi Gallery of Florence , Italy. The work was executed by Cranach s workshop basing on his drawing. It depicts a woman, taken from three quarters on a dark background, who wears an Arabesqued dress and a large, plumed hat in the contemporary fashion, which appears in variants in paintings by Cranach as well as by other German artists of the time. Sources cite book first Stefano last Zuffi title Il Cinquecento publisher Electa location Milan year 2005 isbn 88 370 3468 7 category 1530s paintings Category Paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder category Portraits by German artists Female, Cranach Category 16th century portraits Female, Cranach Category Collections of the Uffizi it Ritratto femminile Cranach ... more details
Infobox Painting image file Hans Holbein the Younger, self portrait.jpg title Self portrait artist Hans Holbein the Younger year c. 1542 1543 type Coloured chalks and pen on paper height 32 width 26 city Florence museum Uffizi The Self portrait is a painting by the German Renaissance master Hans Holbein the Younger , executed around 1542 1543. It is housed in the Uffizi , Florence . The work was bought in London for Gran Duke Cosimo III de Medici in 1681. As in other works by the German artist, there is much care for details, such as the hair, painter one by one. See also List of paintings by Hans Holbein the Younger External links http www.polomuseale.firenze.it catalogo scheda.asp?nctn 00287056&value 1 Page at Florence museums website it icon Category 1540s paintings Category Paintings by Hans Holbein the Younger Category Self portraits Holbein Younger Category Collections of the Uffizi it Autoritratto Holbein il Giovane ... more details
Infobox Painting image file Young Man Apple.jpg title Portrait of Young Man with an Apple artist Raphael year 1505 type Oil on wood height 47 width 35 city Florence museum Uffizi The Young Man with an Apple is a painting by the Italy Italian High Renaissance painter Raphael 1505 . It is housed in the Uffizi Uffizi Gallery in Florence . Made during the artist s Florentine period, it is often thought to be the portrait of Francesco Maria I Della Rovere . ref name WGA References Reflist refs ref name WGA cite web title Young Man with an Apple url http www.wga.hu frames e.html? html r raphael 2firenze 1 26apple.html publisher Web Gallery of Art accessdate 15 June 2010 ref DEFAULTSORT Young Man With An Apple Raphael Category 1505 paintings Category Raphael paintings in the Uffizi Category Raphael portraits Category 16th century portraits az Cavan o lan alma il Rafael bg fr Le Jeune Homme la pomme it Ritratto di giovane con la mela th tr Elmal Gen Adam Rafael ... more details
Unreferenced date June 2008 Expand Italian Madonna in gloria di serafini date August 2011 Infobox Painting title Madonna in Glory with Seraphim artist Sandro Botticelli year 1469 1470 type Tempera on panel height 120 width 65 city Florence museum Galleria degli Uffizi File Botticelli, madonna in gloria di serafini.jpg thumb Madonna in Glory with Seraphim Madonna in Glory with Seraphim is a painting by the Italy Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli , executed c. 1469 1470. It is housed in Galleria degli Uffizi of Florence . Some panel paintings of the Madonna by Botticelli remain from the years around 1470 which are striking expressions of Botticelli s stylistic development. Two full figure pictures of the Madonna the Madonna in Glory and the Madonna of the Rosegarden are in the Uffizi. They represent monumental seated figures filling the entire picture. Mary is enthroned on clouds in a glory of seraphim. The Christ Child, with the cruciform nimbus, is looking towards the observer and raising his hand in blessing. Botticelli has succeeded in expressing the tensions in this theme with sensitivity the mother, who is fully aware of the Passion her son will suffer, is holding him protectively in her arms. Botticelli DEFAULTSORT Madonna In Glory With Seraphim Botticelli Category 1460s paintings Category Botticelli paintings in the Uffizi Category Botticelli Madonnas fr La Vierge et l Enfant dans une gloire de s raphins it Madonna in gloria di serafini ... more details
Infobox Painting image file Andrea Mantegna 001.jpg title Adoration of the Magi artist Andrea Mantegna year 1462 image size 320px type Tempera on panel height 76 width 76.5 museum Uffizi city Florence The Adoration of the Magi is a painting by the Italy Italian Renaissance painter Andrea Mantegna , from 1462. Together with The Ascension Mantegna The Ascension and The Circumcision Mantegna The Circumcision , it forms a triptych created in 1827 at the Uffizi , where the picture can still be seen. The three works were acquired by the house of Medici Medici in 1588 by the House of Gonzaga Gonzaga , whose member Ludovico II Gonzaga Ludovico had commissioned them to Mantegna in the 1460s for the Chapel of the Castello di San Giorgio Castle of St. George in Mantua together with the Death of the Virgin Mantegna Death of the Virgin , now in the Museo del Prado . The panel with the Adoration of the Magi was probably located in the chapel s apse. The Magi are depicted while descending to the Child s grotto from a path carved out in the rock. The Virgin is portrayed with a crown of angels, according to a byzantine art Byzantine model. References http www.artonline.it opera.asp?IDOpera 984 Page at artonline.it Andrea Mantegna DEFAULTSORT Adoration Of The Magi Mantegna Category Paintings by Andrea Mantegna Category 1462 paintings Category Collections of the Uffizi Category Adoration of the Magi in art fr Triptyque des Offices it Trittico degli Uffizi pl Tryptyk z Pok onem Trzech Kr li, Obrzezaniem i Wniebowst pieniem Chrystusa ... more details
Infobox Painting image file Angelo Bronzino 036.jpg title Portrait of Cosimo de Medici artist Agnolo Bronzino year 1545 type Tempera on panel height 74 width 58 city Florence museum Uffizi The Portrait of Cosimo I de Medici is a painting by the Italian artist Agnolo di Cosimo , known as Bronzino , finished in 1545. It is housed in the Uffizi Gallery of Florence , Italy . In his positions of court painter of the Medici, Bronzino was author of several portraits of Grand Duchy of Tuscany Grand Duke Cosimo I de Medici . In this one Cosimo is represented in his young years and, in the words of Giorgio Vasari , clad with white armor and a hand over the helmet . The portrait has been identified as the one executed in the Villa of Poggio a Caiano in 1545 and mentioned in some letters. The portrait is devised to show the dominant and proud temperament of the Grand Duke, with a side light shining on his face and on the metallic armor. References http www.artonline.it opera.asp?IDOpera 1504 Page at artnet.it it icon DEFAULTSORT Portrait Of Cosimo I De Medici Category 1545 paintings Category Bronzino portraits cosimo de Medici Category Collections of the Uffizi Category Bronzino paintings in the Uffizi Italy stub bg th ... more details
Infobox Painting image file Cranach, madonna col bambino e san giovannino.jpg title Madonna with Child with Young John the Baptist artist Lucas Cranach the Elder year 1514 type Oil on panel height 76.6 width 58 museum Uffizi Gallery city Florence Madonna with Child with Young John the Baptist is a painting by the German paintings German Renaissance painter Lucas Cranach the Elder , dating from 1514. It is housed in the Uffizi Gallery of Florence . The work was originally in the Florence Charterhouse , outside the city, from where it was stolen in 1973. It was recovered in 2001. It is a typical Madonna with Child inspired by Raphael . The Virgin is shown above a rocky background with a fair sky, while holding the Child and showing it to the observer. Similarly to Raphael s Terranuova Madonna , the Child and the young John the Baptist interact through their gestures and glances. The bright colors, the volume of the figures and the composition are typical of Italian Renaissance painting, which was well known by Cranach. See also Virgin with Child and the Young John the Baptist Botticelli Sources cite book first Gloria last Fossi title Uffizi location Florence publisher Giunti year 2004 Category 1514 paintings Category Paintings by Lucas Cranach the Elder Category Collections of the Uffizi it Madonna col Bambino e san Giovannino Cranach ... more details
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