MASTERPIECES OF THE UFFIZI GALLERY
Type: Interactive On-Line Webinar or Live Event
Sites/Works of Art Discussed:
Birth of Venus/Primavera, Botticelli
Annunciation, Leonardo
Doni Tondo, Michelangelo
Venus of Urbino, Titian
Medusa/Bacchus, Caravaggio
“Masterpieces of the Uffizi Gallery”
Presented by Dr. Rocky Ruggiero
The Uffizi Gallery houses the world’s most important collection of medieval and Renaissance Italian paintings, with major works by artists such as Giotto, Simone Martini, Piero della Francesca, Fra Lippo Lippi, Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Caravaggio. This lecture will examine the evolution of painting during from the early 14th to the mid-17th centuries as reflected in the paintings housed in this great museum.