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Uffizi in English

A selection of the Uffizi Galleries' masterpieces described in English
Amerigo Vespucci at the Cabinet of Prints and Drawings

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Amerigo Vespucci at the Cabinet of Prints and Drawings

Andrew Chen, professor at the University of Texas, shows us the illustrations of the "interludes" (theatrical performances designed to entertain gu...
#goldenmonday I When you look at a masterpiece, do you notice its frame?

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#goldenmonday I When you look at a masterpiece, do you notice its frame?

Starting from this question a little journey to discover objects that we often forget to look at begins.
#goldenmonday II - Why does a round painting have a square frame?

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#goldenmonday II - Why does a round painting have a square frame?

The role of frames in setting up a Baroque picture gallery
#goldenmonday III - What are subject frames?

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#goldenmonday III - What are subject frames?

What do certain strange shapes carved into the frames represent? Deformed faces, monstrous figures, flowers, claws, scales, eagle wings; sometimes ...
Adoration of the Magi by Filippino Lippi

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Adoration of the Magi by Filippino Lippi

The New York art historian Jonathan Nelson shows us an extraordinary work, in which appears a moor who had intrigued Giorgio Vasari himself
The Adoration of the Magi by Gentile da Fabriano

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The Adoration of the Magi by Gentile da Fabriano

Carl Brandon Strehlke, American-born medieval art historian, shows us "the blue of gold" in the early fifteenth-century masterpiece
Giotto's Majesty

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Giotto's Majesty

Carl Brandon Strehlke, refined art historian, tells us about the fourteenth-century masterpiece, with the first spatial and perspective intuitions ...
Masaccio and Masolino: St. Anne Metterza

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Masaccio and Masolino: St. Anne Metterza

A masterpiece presented by the Director of the Opera Duomo Museum, Mons. Timothy Verdon
A gorgeous painting by Giovanni Battista Moroni

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A gorgeous painting by Giovanni Battista Moroni

The Director of Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi of Florence presents the Portrait of Pietro Secco Suardo
The Martyrdom of St. Lawrence by Bernini

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The Martyrdom of St. Lawrence by Bernini

The Director of the Bargello Museums in Florence introduces the masterpiece by Bernini
Botticelli's Annunciations

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Botticelli's Annunciations

The San Martino Annunciation and the Cestello Annunciation
Black Presence - i

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Black Presence - i

Video in English | Justin Randolph Thompson (BHMF) analyzes the figure of a black musician in the Perseus by Piero di Cosimo
Black Presence - II

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Black Presence - II

Justin Randolph Thompson analyzes the figure of Magus Balthazar
Black Presence - iv

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Black Presence - iv

The figure a standing apart soldier in a work by Carpaccio
Black Presence - v

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Black Presence - v

Two peasants and a black servant, Peter the Moor, in a painting by Suttermans
Eleonora di Toledo and her son Giovanni

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Eleonora di Toledo and her son Giovanni

Video in English | Bruce Edelstein (New York University - Firenze) talking about Bronzino's masterpiece
Black Presence - VI

Black Presence - VI

Video in English | Justin Randolph Thompson (BHMF) analyzes the figure of Benedetto d'Angola Silva, un African albino man portrayed by Domenico Tem...
Black Presence - VIII

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Black Presence - VIII

Video in English | Alessandro de' Medici, illegitimate son of Lorenzo de' Medici and Simonetta, a black African slave, in two works by Vasari and B...
Black Presence - VII

Black Presence - VII

Justin Randolph Thompson (BHMF) describes the portraits of Emperor Atana de Dinghel and Alchitrof, two works by Cristofano dell'Altissimo from the ...
Michelangelo's Holy Family

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Michelangelo's Holy Family

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 d...
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