Andrew Chen, professor at the University of Texas, shows us the illustrations of the "interludes" (theatrical performances designed to entertain guests during the wedding). In one of these prints appears Amerigo Vespucci, the Florentine navigator who will give his name to the Americas
Starting from this question a little journey to discover objects that we often forget to look at begins.
The role of frames in setting up a Baroque picture gallery
What do certain strange shapes carved into the frames represent? Deformed faces, monstrous figures, flowers, claws, scales, eagle wings; sometimes the answer is in the painting itself.
The New York art historian Jonathan Nelson shows us an extraordinary work, in which appears a moor who had intrigued Giorgio Vasari himself
Carl Brandon Strehlke, American-born medieval art historian, shows us "the blue of gold" in the early fifteenth-century masterpiece
Carl Brandon Strehlke, refined art historian, tells us about the fourteenth-century masterpiece, with the first spatial and perspective intuitions and its extraordinary presence of precious details
A masterpiece presented by the Director of the Opera Duomo Museum, Mons. Timothy Verdon
The Director of Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi of Florence presents the Portrait of Pietro Secco Suardo
The Director of the Bargello Museums in Florence introduces the masterpiece by Bernini
The San Martino Annunciation and the Cestello Annunciation
The Uffizi
Video in English | Justin Randolph Thompson (BHMF) analyzes the figure of a black musician in the Perseus by Piero di Cosimo
Justin Randolph Thompson analyzes the figure of Magus Balthazar
The figure a standing apart soldier in a work by Carpaccio
Two peasants and a black servant, Peter the Moor, in a painting by Suttermans
Video in English | Bruce Edelstein (New York University - Firenze) talking about Bronzino's masterpiece
Video in English | Justin Randolph Thompson (BHMF) analyzes the figure of Benedetto d'Angola Silva, un African albino man portrayed by Domenico Tempesti
Video in English | Alessandro de' Medici, illegitimate son of Lorenzo de' Medici and Simonetta, a black African slave, in two works by Vasari and Bronzino, described by Justin Randolph Thompson (BHMF)
Justin Randolph Thompson (BHMF) describes the portraits of Emperor Atana de Dinghel and Alchitrof, two works by Cristofano dell'Altissimo from the Giovio Series
A perfect circle that contains the mystery of the Sacred and Beauty. The artwork is presented by Timothy Verdon, Director of the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo di Firenze.
