Uffizi gallery paintings
The Uffizi gallery is a prominent art museum located in the historic Centre of Florence (declared World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1982), Italy. One of the most important Italian Museums, and the most visited. It is also one of the largest and best known in the world, and holds a collection of priceless works, particularly from the period of the Italian Renaissance.
Adoration of the Magi by Leonardo da Vinci. The Virgin Mary and child are depicted in the foreground and form a triangle shape with the Magi kneeling in adoration. In the background on the left is the ruin of a pagan building, on which workmen can be seen, apparently repairing it. On the right are men on horseback fighting and a sketch of a rocky landscape. This is perhaps one of Leonardo da Vinci's strangest and most fertile compositions. By combining figures of pleading old men and armed horsemen, he transformed a banal biblical subject into a scene from human history.
Judith slaying Holofernes by Artemisia Gentileschi. The painting is relentlessly physical, from the wide spurts of blood to the energy of the two women as they perform the act. The effort of the women's struggle is most finely represented by the delicate face of the maid, who is younger than in most paintings, which is grasped by the oversized, muscular fist of Holofernes as he desperately struggles to survive.
The Death of Adonis by Sebastiano del Piombo. In the centre of the painting, there is Venus, sad because Adonis - on the left - is dead. On the background, we can see Venice and some of its famous buildings.
The Roman Charity by Bartolomeo Manfredi. The young Pero, to save his elderly father Cimon, imprisoned, feeds him with the milk of her breasts.
Noli me tangere by Andrea Del Sarto. The leading figures stand out in the foreground with the Magdalene on the left, kneeling and reaching out, and Jesus risen to the right, with the crusader banner.
The Visitation by Albertinelli
Salome with the Head of John the Baptist by Alonso Berruguete.
The Massacre of the Innocents by Marco Benefial. There are couple of theories related to "Massacre of the Innocents" but one thing that holds true is - the king ordered to kill all the male children who are two years old.
Portrait of Gabrielle d'Estrées and One of Her Sisters, School of Fontainebleau
An Allegory of the Virtue, Love defending Virtue against Ignorance and Prejudice - by Jacopo Ligozzi
Adoration of the Magi by Leonardo da Vinci. The Virgin Mary and child are depicted in the foreground and form a triangle shape with the Magi kneeling in adoration. In the background on the left is the ruin of a pagan building, on which workmen can be seen, apparently repairing it. On the right are men on horseback fighting and a sketch of a rocky landscape. This is perhaps one of Leonardo da Vinci's strangest and most fertile compositions. By combining figures of pleading old men and armed horsemen, he transformed a banal biblical subject into a scene from human history.
Doni Tondo by Michelangelo - The Doni Tondo or Doni Madonna is the only finished panel painting by the mature Michelangelo to survive. The Painting is in the form of Tondo, which in Italian means, Round. The Doni Tondo portrays the Holy family (the child Jesus, Mary and Joseph) in the foreground, along with John the Baptist in the middle ground, and contains five nude male figures in the background. The inclusion of these nude figures has been interpreted in a variety of ways.
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