The Birth of Venus
Sandro Botticelli · 1485
Uffizi Gallery
Florence
Botticelli's Venus arrives on her shell in the room you have been walking towards. Titian's Venus of Urbino waits a few galleries on.
What to see
The Birth of Venus
Sandro Botticelli · 1485
The Birth of Venus is a painting by the Italian artist Sandro Botticelli, probably executed in the mid-1480s. It depicts the goddess Venus arriving at the shore after her birth, when she had emerged from the sea fully grown (called Venus Anadyomene and often depicted in art).
Primavera
Sandro Botticelli · 1480
Primavera is a large panel painting in tempera paint by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli made in the late 1470s or early 1480s. It has been described as "one of the most written about, and most controversial paintings in the world", and also "one of the most popular paintings in Western art".
Venus of Urbino
Titian · 1538
The Venus of Urbino (also known as Reclining Venus) is an oil painting by Italian painter Titian, depicting a nude young woman, traditionally identified with the goddess Venus, reclining on a couch or bed in the sumptuous surroundings of a Renaissance palace. Work on the painting seems to have begun anywhere from 1532 or 1534, and was perhaps completed in 1534, but not sold until 1538.
Adoration of the Magi
Leonardo da Vinci · 1482
The Adoration of the Magi is an unfinished early painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo was given the commission by the Augustinian monks of San Donato in Scopeto in Florence in 1481, but he departed for Milan the following year, leaving merely more than the preparatory underdrawing in charcoal, ink and watercolor. It has been in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence since 1670.
Doni Tondo
Michelangelo · 1505–1506
The Doni Tondo or Doni Madonna is the only finished panel painting by the mature Michelangelo to survive. Now in the Uffizi in Florence, Italy, and still in its original frame, the Doni Tondo commissioned by Agnolo Doni, probably to commemorate his marriage to Maddalena Strozzi, the daughter of a powerful Tuscan family.
The Baptism of Christ
Leonardo da Vinci · 1470
The Baptism of Christ is an oil-on-panel painting finished around 1475 in the studio of the Italian Renaissance painter Andrea del Verrocchio and generally ascribed to him and his pupil Leonardo da Vinci. Some art historians discern the hands of other members of Verrocchio's workshop in the painting as well.
Artists
Italian · 1445–1510 · Early Renaissance
Italian · 1503–1572 · Mannerism
Holy Roman Empire · 1483–1520
Italian · 1452–1519 · High Renaissance
Republic of Florence · 1429–1498
Republic of Florence · 1406–1469
Italian · 1448–1523 · Umbrian school
Italian · 1488–1576 · Venetian school
Italian · 1571–1610 · Baroque
German · 1471–1528 · German Renaissance
Papal States · 1593–1653
Italian · 1478–1510 · High Renaissance
Artworks
Coronation of the Virgin
Lorenzo Monaco · 1414
Death of Adonis
Sebastiano del Piombo · 1512
Medusa
Caravaggio · 1597
Portrait of a Man with a Medal of Cosimo the Elder
Sandro Botticelli · 1474
Rucellai Madonna
Duccio di Buoninsegna · 1285
Holy Allegory
Giovanni Bellini · 1490
Self-portrait
Hans Holbein the Younger · 1542
The Test of Fire of Moses
Giorgione · 1505
Leda and the Swan
Jacopo Tintoretto · 1550
Pietà
Pietro Perugino · 1483
Moses Defending the Daughters of Jethro
Rosso Fiorentino · 1523
Presentation at the Temple
Ambrogio Lorenzetti · 1342
Sources
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