Palazzo PittiFlorence, Italy
Works of Art in Palazzo Pitti
Remember a few general principles and you will find that the art of understanding art is much easier than you might magine
Andrea Del Sarto’s Madonna in Gloria (1530)
Make sure you always know an artist's real name, the one the artist actually used. It's a very useful tool for interpretation.
Andrea Del Sarto’s St John the Baptist (c.1523)
See Artemisia Gentileschi turned a biblical story into a lesson about art and reality
Artemisia Gentileschi’s Judith and Her Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes
Find out why so many of Perugino's faces look alike
Perugino’s Madonna and Child (n.d.) and Mary Magdalene (1500)
New revelations, as always, about one of the world's most famous portraits
Raphael’s La Donna Velata (c.1516)
The pose in this portrait by Raphael, with the head turned upwards and away, has been described as a type suggesting that the Pope's secretary is listening to or witnessing divine revelation.
Raphael’s Tommaso Inghirami (c. 1511)
Baudelaire's linking of Painting with cosmetics in the nineteenth century was not a novel idea, as long believed, but one with a very long history indeed
Titian’s Mary Magdalene(s) (c.1530-60)
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