Tag: renaissance
All the articles with the tag "renaissance".
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Primavera Analysis: Figure by Figure, Right to Left
Published:• 17 min readPrimavera by Botticelli has nine figures. Here is a figure-by-figure decode of each one — Mercury, the Three Graces, Venus, Cupid, Flora, Chloris, Zephyr — read right to left, the way the painting wants to be read.
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Uffizi Gallery Florence: A First-Timer's Walkthrough
Published:• 16 min readUffizi Gallery Florence first-timer walkthrough. Where it sits in the city, the route through the U-shaped building, where to enter and exit, and what to do before and after on the same day.
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The Adoration of the Magi: Botticelli, the Medici, and the Self-Portrait at the Right
Published:• 14 min readThe Adoration of the Magi by Sandro Botticelli is a Bible scene that is also a Medici family portrait. Cosimo, Piero, Giovanni, Lorenzo, Giuliano — and Botticelli himself, looking out from the right.
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La Primavera by Sandro Botticelli: The Season, the Story, the Patron
Published:• 15 min readPrimavera by Sandro Botticelli is a nine-figure dance in an orange grove painted around 1482, almost certainly for a young Medici cousin. Here is the story it tells, the season it sets, and why it has been argued over for five hundred years.
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The Uffizi Gallery, Italy: The Ten Works to Know and Why the Museum Exists
Published:• 15 min readThe Uffizi Gallery in Italy holds the most important Renaissance collection in the world. Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian, Caravaggio. Here are the ten works to know and why the museum exists at all.
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The Birth of Venus, Sandro Botticelli: Meaning, Mythology, and Why It Stops You
Published:• 17 min readThe Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli is a goddess on a shell painted around 1485, the first life-size female nude in Western art since antiquity. Here is what it means and why it stops you.
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Raphael's Famous Work and the Tomb in the Pantheon: Why a Painter Got Buried with Gods
Published:• 11 min readRaphael's most famous work earned him a burial slot in the Pantheon in 1520 -- a reading of the paintings that made him, and the epitaph that closes them.