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Showing posts with label Uffizi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Uffizi. Show all posts
13 February 2018

Benvenuto Cellini – sculptor and goldsmith

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Creator of the famous Perseus bronze had a dark history Cellini's bronze of Perseus with the Head of Medusa in Piazza della Sign...
28 January 2018

Simonetta Vespucci – Renaissance beauty

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Noblewoman hailed as embodiment of female perfection Simonetta Vespucci, as recalled by Sandro Botticelli in his 1480s Portrait of...
15 November 2017

Roberto Cavalli – fashion designer

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Florentine who conceived the sand-blasted look for jeans Roberto Cavalli The designer Roberto Cavalli was born on this day in 194...
8 October 2017

Vincenzo Peruggia – art thief

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Gallery worker who stole the Mona Lisa A police mugshot of Vincenzo Peruggia Vincenzo Peruggia, a handyman who earned notoriety w...
7 October 2017

Rosalba Carriera - portrait painter

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Venetian artist specialised in miniatures Rosalba Carriera: shown painting her sister in a self-portrait housed at the Uffizi in Flor...
16 August 2017

Umberto Baldini – art restorer

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Saved hundreds of artworks damaged by Arno floods Umberto Baldini Umberto Baldini, the art historian who helped save hundreds of ...
25 March 2017

Francesco I - Grand Duke of Tuscany

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Florentine ruler at heart of Medici murder mystery A portrait of Francesco I by Agnolo di Cosimo, the Florentine artist better known a...
12 July 2016

Amedeo Modigliani – artist

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Illness marred the life of creative genius  Amedeo Modigliani: A photograph taken in  about 1918, when the artist was 34 years old ...
24 May 2016

Gian Gastone de' Medici – Grand Duke of Tuscany

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The last Medici to rule Florence A portrait of Gian Gastone de' Medici, the last in a line of Florentine rulers Gian Gastone...