Uffizi: Art, History, CollectionsLa Galleria degli Uffizi è uno dei musei più importanti del mondo. Il nucleo principale delle sue ricchissime collezioni comprende opere che vanno dal Duecento al Settecento; in particolare è lo specchio fedele di uno dei momenti più alti dell'arte di tutti i tempi: il Rinascimento. Tra i principali artisti rappresentati ci sono Giotto, Piero della Francesca, Paolo Uccello, Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raffaello, Pontormo, Tiziano, Caravaggio. Le sezioni del volume: Le origini; Genealogia della famiglia Medici; Le Collezioni Medicee; Il Duecento e il Trecento; Il Quattrocento; Il Rinascimento nel Nord Europa; Il Cinquecento; Il Seicento e il Settecento; Biografie; Artisti e opere. Catalogo completo; Indice dei nomi citati. |
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Page 602 - I say that painting may be considered better the more it approaches relief, and relief may be considered worse the more it approaches painting; and so I used to believe that sculpture is the lamp of painting, and the first related to the second as the sun to the moon", wrote Michelangelo to Benedetto Varchi, promoter of a discussion "on which is the noblest, Sculpture or Painting".
Page 602 - Michelangelo in Rome I can't refrain from writing you another couple of lines; and this is to say that for twelve years now I've been traipsing around Italy, borne all kinds of disgrace, suffered every calamity, lacerated my body with cruel toil, put my own life in danger a thousand times, only to help my family; and now that I've started to raise our house up again a little, just you alone wish to be the one to confound it and ruin in an hour what I've achieved after so many years and through such...
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| Title | Uffizi: Art, History, Collections Atlanti compatti Firenze musei |
| Author | Gloria Fossi |
| Edition | illustrated, revised |
| Publisher | Giunti Editore, 2004 |
| ISBN | 880903676X, 9788809036765 |
| Length | 638 pages |
| Subjects | › Travel / Museums, Tours, Points of Interest |
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