PIERO DI COSIMO

Piero di Cosimo (1462-1522).

BACCIO BANDINELLI

Baccio (Bartolommeo) Bandinelli (1493-1560).

GIAMBOLOGNA

Giambologna (Jean Boulogne) (1529-1608).

SANDRO BOTTICELLI – EXHIBITION

“Botticelli and the Search for the Divine,” explores the dramatic changes in the artist’s style and subject matter—from poetic depictions of classical gods and goddesses to austere sacred themes—reflecting the shifting political and religious climate of Florence during his lifetime.

The exhibition, the largest and most important display of Sandro Botticelli’s works in the United States, features 24 paintings from international lenders and the MFA’s own Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist (about 1500) as well as important loans from Harvard and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.

WHEN: April 15, 2017 – July 9, 2017.
WHERE: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA.

More information HERE.

LEONARDO DA VINCI’S ‘THE ADORATION OF THE MAGI’ BACK AT THE UFFIZI GALLERY

After six years of restoration and inspection, Leonardo da Vinci’s The Adoration of the Magi is back at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.

Leonardo was commissioned to paint the “The Adoration of the Magi” in 1481 by the Austin Friars but stopped painting after a preliminary study upon leaving for Milan in 1491. Another altarpiece depicting the Adoration of the Magi was commissioned from Filippino Lippi and completed in 1496, while Leonardo’s work found a home in the palazzo of the Benci family in Florence, later joining the Medici family’s collections.

At 246 x 243 cm, the work is the Uffizi’s largest panel painting by the artist.

(Perspectival study for The Adoration of the Magi, c. 1481.)

SUOR PLAUTILLA NELLI

Plautilla Nelli (1524-1588).

Suor Plautilla Nelli was born into a noble Florentine family. She entered the convent of Santa Caterina di Siena in Florence (which taught painting and sculpting of terracotta figures) in 1538, at the age of 14, and eventually became its prioress, several times.

The convent (now destroyed), located in Piazza San Marco, was supposedly annexed into the Galleria dell’Accademia in 1853 and was briefly part of the Accademia delle Belle Arti. According to noted Nelli expert, Catherine Turrill, many of the nuns at Santa Caterina were daughters of Florentine artisans, and the convent was unrivaled throughout Italy for the ‘number and significance’ of its nun-artists.

RUTH ORKIN

Ruth Orkin (1921-1985).

BENOZZO GOZZOLI

Benozzo Gozzoli (c.1421-1497).

OSKAR KOKOSCHKA

Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980).

 

JEAN-AUGUSTE-DOMINIQUE INGRES

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780-1867).

ITALY

by Robert Rive (1825-1890).

LUCA DELLA ROBBIA

Luca della Robbia (1399/1400-1482).

MAP OF HELL

by Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510).
The “Mappa dell’Inferno” (“Map of Hell”) by Botticelli, regularly called “The Abyss of Hell” or “La voragine dell’Inferno” is one of the parchments that the famous Italian painter designed to illustrate an edition of The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri.
The structure of hell created by Dante and designed by Botticelli is shaped like an inverted cone—like a funnel—which degrades with its nine circles to the center of the Earth, in which Lucifer is embedded. In each circle, the damned are punished for a specific sin.

FRA BARTOLOMEO

Fra Bartolomeo (1472-1517).

CIMABUE

Cenni di Petro Cimabue (C.1240-1302).