Uffizi, 2017: Renaissance Fun, 2

And now, the exciting conclusion of our fun day at the Uffizi...

A Memling Madonna and Bambino, 15th

Cranach's "Three 14-Year-Olds At the Mall"

Durer's portrait of his dad

A Steen

Velazquez self-portrait: what would the Prado
give for this?

Specimen Theotokopoulos

Rembrandt self-portrait #1,358

A Watteau, yes! seriously! The Flute Player, 1725

A Rubens Bacchanal

Mini-Me in a pissing contest with Bacchus

Rubens selfie, 1628; a gift to Cosimo III

Seriously important: Rafael's Madonna of the
Goldfinch

Ditto: Verocchio's Annunciation, with some help from his young
pupil, Leonardo, who did the angel and the background; 1475

Definitely Leonardo

Titian's Madonna Urbino

Detail from helpful model #269

And how better to end than with the Uffizi's premier entry from
Mister Fruity Butt Pants, known as Caravaggio, his Doubting
Thomas

Uffizi, 2017: Renaissance Fun, 1

Continuing our fun day at the Uffizi, November 2...

The building and its many rooms are often as interesting as the contents

At the clubhouse turn; the construction crane has been there since
1979, at least

In the long hall by the river

A Mantegna, Scenes from the Life of Jesus; the panel on the right is a Circumcision

Up high across the river, the Church of San Miniato...best place to view Florence

River City; from the Uffizi

"This Space Available" "Your Painting Here"

So if the Perfectly Pure Pigeon of Paradise poops on your head, is it a sign of favor?

Where can I buy some pants like these?

In the classical sculpture hall, a bust of Aristotle

Bust of a classical hobbit

Mr. Twisty (M. Buonarroti) Holy Family

We always look forward to anything from the School of
Fontainebleau...at the Louvre, they're pinching other parts

In the Hark! Hall

Nice ceiling treatment (the Uffizi was the Office of the Medici
Corp.)

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...

Uffizi, 2017: 14th Century

They've moved things around, methinks, but it used to be room IV where you could compare the Duccio and the Cimabuie and the Giotto directly and see where things were going, from International Gothic to Renaissance. Still, they're all there, and more, a favorite place in art history...

Duccio's Madonna and Child Enthroned with  Angels, 1285;
in an older post from Siena, I have a clandestine shot of the 
Maesta

Cimabuie's Madonna and Child Enthroned...; 1290-1300;
Cimabuie was Giotto's teacher

Giotto, ditto, 1306-10

Giotto's Badia Polyptych; here, I maintain, you can see the shift from painting of
Byzantine mosaics to a painting of real people, emotion, etc.

Simone Martini's Annunciation, 1333

Spitting it out in gold leaf...

Filippo Lippi's Coronation of the Virgin, 1439

Detail...now full tilt into the Renaissance; Lippi was Botticelli's teacher

Lippi's Madonna and Child with Two Angels

And an Ucello...the Battle of San Romano, 1435