beauty, elegance and seduction in Florence: beautiful portraits by artists such as Botticelli, Titian, Parmigianino, Raphael, Bronzino ...

2. Uffizi and Palatine galleries
Beauty, elegance and seduction in Florence

4. BOTTICELLI, Sandro
Portrait of a Man with a Medal of Cosimo the Elder
1474
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
... enigmatic gaze
fine features and pale eyes
long hair, typical of the time
their hands hold a medallion, which bears the profile of Cosimo the Elder, Pater Patriae the first
de facto lord of Florence

8. BOTTICELLI, Sandro
Portrait of a Young Man
1470
Galleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti), Florence
... an aristocratic tone of superiority
a red jerkin and the characteristic headgear of the Florentine Quattrocento, the mazzocchio
probably Gianlorenzo de' Medici

13. RAFFAELLO Sanzio
Young Man with an Apple
1505
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
... a young man as blessed by wealth
and
a delightful symbolic touch:
an apple, a symbol of knowledge, sin and the fall of man in the Biblical tradition
...but the gestures of the hands encompassing and stabilising the fruit
proclaims that Francesco Maria I Della Rovere is aware of the perils of the world, and has them firmly under control

19. BRONZINO, Agnolo
Portrait of Lucrezia Panciatichi
1540
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
... idealized symbol of chaste beauty and high spirituality
aristocratic dignity and elegance
severe, pure face
lady of a refined and cultured Florentine society

25. CLOUET, Jean
Portrait of Claude of Lorraine, Duke of Guise
1528-1530
Galleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti), Florence
... appearing more courtier than warrior
a handsome duke
a fierce soldier
a nobleman aggressive about his rights of precedence
for his loyalty to his king, François I, he was raised from count to duke of Guise in 1528

30. RAFFAELLO Sanzio
La Donna Velata, Woman with a Veil
1516
Galleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti), Florence
… Raphael's ideal of beauty
a sense of great dignity
tradition identifies the subject with "la Fornarina", the woman whom the painter loved in his last years

35. TIZIANO Vecellio
Flora
1515-1520
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
... young woman of extraordinary idealized beauty
the dreamy look
in his right hand a bouquet of spring flowers
the picture is called “Flora” – the name of the ancient Roman goddess of spring and flowers

41. RAFFAELLO Sanzio
Portrait of Agnolo Doni
1506
Galleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti), Florence
... a successful and rich merchant
his hands suggest his social status, ruby is a symbol of prosperity and the sapphire sign of clarity and purity

48. RAFFAELLO Sanzio
Portrait of Maddalena Doni
1506
Galleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti), Florence
the praise of the woman social condition
clothes very decorated
countless jewels
... portrait more idealized and less realistic

54. RAFFAELLO Sanzio
Guidobaldo da Montefeltro
1507
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
the archaic, static pose
... a little embarrassed

59. RAFFAELLO Sanzio
Elisabetta Gonzaga
1503
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
... a fascinating painting
a monumental stillness
a sense of uncompromising virtue
resigned melancholy
a costly, fashionable dress in black and gold—the Montefeltro colors
and most intriguing: black scorpion on the forehead

64. PARMIGIANINO
Portrait of a Man
1530-1531
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
... work of astonishing beauty
a proud and serious expression
inspiring nobility and values

69. TIZIANO Vecellio
The Young Englishman, Portrait of a Young Man with Grey Eyes
1540-1545
Galleria Palatina (Palazzo Pitti), Florence
... one of the most beautiful portraits
intelligence, authority
troubling, insistent
fascination, mistrust, unease, admiration ... we can not remain indifferent to this gentleman

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