LECTURE 4 "Masterpieces of the Uffizi Gallery (Part I)"
The Golden Age of Florence (1300-1500) - Part II
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1h 22m
Dr. Rocky Ruggiero
The Uffizi Galleries house the world’s most important collection of medieval and Renaissance Italian paintings, with major works by artists such as Giotto, Simone Martini, Piero della Francesca, Fra Lippo Lippi, Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Caravaggio. This lecture will examine the evolution of painting from the early-14th to the mid-15th century, as reflected in the late-medieval and early Renaissance paintings housed in this great museum.
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LECTURE 6 "Michelangelo and the David"
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