Uffizi, 2017: Botticelli

The Uffizi has more Botticelli paintings than any other place I know of, and Botticelli is our favorite Renaissance artist. The Uffizi has made the Birth of Venus pretty much its emblem and it is already pretty much the emblem of the Renaissance. So Botticelli gets a whole post here. Surprisingly, what I'm posting is probably less than half of his work in the Uffizi. Don't worry, though, I'll be posting more as we go along and visit other places.

One of many Annunciations, this one a bit more austere, probably more to Savanrola's 
taste back at San Marco

Another, rather less austere

Primavera

Birth of Venus

His great love, Simonetta Vespucci

Madonna of the Magnificat

Most of Botticelli's paintings are of more pleasant happenings; not so The Calumny 
of Apelles

Simonetta's in there anyway; or the memory of Simonetta...she died quite young

Madonna of the Pomegranate

Madonna and Child Enthroned

He's buried at her feet in the Ognisancti Church down the river

Big crowd for a (relatively) slow day

Adoration; there's a similar painting in the National Gallery in DC

Self-portrait; no one could do more with tempura; interesting
to wonder what he might have achieved in oil...