The Uffizi
Daniela Parenti, curator of 15th-century painting at the Uffizi, describes the work of the Florentine painter.
One of the great masterpieces of the 15th century seen up close
One of the greatest masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance in its new location
The tale of a journey through a place that contains the quintessence of Western art. Its original nucleus derives from the Medici family's collections, and today it boasts a collection of inestimable value from ancient statues to contemporary art passing through the iconic masterpieces of Botticelli, Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Caravaggio and many others.
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On January 31, 1504, Agnolo Doni and Maddalena Strozzi were married and commissioned three masterpieces of sixteenth-century art from Raphael and Michelangelo.
Paola Burberi tells us about a splendid polyptych that was found in the church of Ognissanti in Florence.
Press presentation of the reopening
We admire the print together with another masterpiece of graphic art, signed by the master Albrecht Dürer, "The knight, death and the devil", with Maria Pertini.
In 1819, the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, after a visit to the Uffizi, wrote "On the Medusa by Leonardo da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery", thus following the traditional attribution of the painting at that time (whereas nowadays it is attributed to a 17th-century Flemish painter). The poet's verses demonstrate how the painting exactly responds to the canons of the Romantic idea of "sublime"
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