The Uffizi Gallery is a prominent art museum located adjacent to the Piazza della Signoria in Florence, it is one of the most important Italian museums and the most visited art museums in the world.
Uffizi has countless museum pieces, some of them are priceless works from the period of the Italian Renaissance, Choumeizai will choose the most famous pieces and make a brief introduction.
The double portrait of the Dukes of Urbino, also known as the Diptych of Federico da Montefeltro and Battista Sforza is the work of Piero della Francesca, an artist of early Italian Renaissance.
This painting features the precise application of linear perspective, which is revolutionary to the painting at that time.
The Doni Tondo or Doni Madonna, is the only finished panel painting by the mature Michelangelo to survive, very precious.
Although the painting is very old, the colors are still shiny and vivid, you can make a comparison between this painting to ‘The Last Judgement’ in Sistine Chapel, Vatican City.
Primavera (meaning 'Spring'), is a large panel painting in tempera paint by the Italian Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli made in 1482, together with The Birth of Venus, both are the most famous paintings of Botticelli.
The movement of the composition is from right to left, at far right is Zephyrus, the biting wind of March, kidnaps and possesses the nymph Chloris, she becomes the goddess of Spring. Chloris the nymph overlaps Flora, the goddess she transforms into.
In the centre stands Venus, a red-draped woman in blue. In the air above her a blindfolded Cupid aims his bow to the left.
On the left of the painting the Three Graces, a group of three females also in diaphanous white, join hands in a dance. At the extreme left Mercury, clothed in red with a sword and a helmet.
The Birth of Venus (Italian: Nascita di Venere) isanother famous painting by Botticelli,depicting the goddess Venus arriving at the shore after her birth, when she had emerged from the sea fully-grown.
As depictions of subjects from classical mythology on a very large scale they were virtually unprecedented in Western art since classical antiquity, as was the size and prominence of a nude female figure in the Birth.
Choumeizai finds that viewing the painting in real life is much more beautiful than viewing it in a book, it emits a kind of magic which is indescribable.
