A Day At The Uffizi

By my count, this was our eighth visit to the Uffizi, the first in 1979, the most recent way back in 2017.  Before 2011 or so, visiting the Uffizi was mostly a touristic obligation. About that time we studied some art history--thank you, Great Courses--and developed a taste for the art that preceded the Renaissance.  Now we spend an inordinate amount of time in the single digit rooms of the Uffizi, with Cimabuie, Duccio, and Giotto, Martini and Francesca, and others. Things I would earlier have dismissed as the "Halo Rooms" we now savor. After the two Botticelli rooms, down the hall, the game is pretty much over for me, and seeing a Cranach or Durer later on only makes me yearn for the 15th century Flemish masters. But I digress. Despite the respect and regard, a lot of this stuff brings out the worst of my impish nature, so apologies for that...

A small Giotto in which you can see, by comparison with the Cimabuie and
Duccio elsewhere in the room, what all the fuss was about in 1305: these are
paintings of credible people, with emotions; not of static Byzantine mosaics

Baby J was not a thumb-sucker; rather, all four fingers...scholars disagree on
whether this was 3 (for the trinity) + 1 (for the unity) or the duality squared...

Biblical origins of Game of Thrones

Giottino, mid-14th century sacred conversation; emotion plus interesting hair-dos

Rene Ssance, Adoration of the Monkeys

"Atta' girl, Mom" #1,746

Love Ucellos...Battle of San Marino

Lippi, St. Augustine getting his notion of the trinity (three divine arrows to the heart)

In the first of the now two Botticelli rooms

Second; almost every one of the 8-10 paintings in this room has an image of
his life-long love...

Simonetta

Once I'm done with the Botticellis, I'm done; and even more impish

New signage in the restaurant

Rebecca, Jeremy, and Penelope were touring the Uffizi the same day, and we
met for snacks; foto by Rebecca

The Arno and Ponte Vecchio from the club-house turn

One of several Luca Signorellis

The "Hark!" room

Gets an entire room to him-/herself

Yes, he became a cardinal

Ape picking lice from a man's hair...Annibale Carracci;
especially with the broad strokes, reminiscent of Hals, a
century later

The Uffizi's three or four Caravaggios are now split up into two rooms, one of
which contains four separate beheadings