by Penny | 8 Aug, 2013 | Architecture, News, Religious History, Renaissance Art, Sculpture, Social History
The Baptism of Christ by Andrea del Verrocchio and Leonardo da Vinci In 1472 one of the most busy workshops in Florence was that of Andrea di Michele di Francesco de’ Cioni, – better known as Andrea del Verrocchio. (true-eye) At that time the 37 year old...
by Penny | 26 May, 2013 | Exhibitions, Fresco painting, News, Religious History, Sculpture, WW2
Felines and Sealions in Santa Spirito There is a little museum in what was once the refectory of the Chiesa Santo Spirito. The building suffered a lot of WW2 war damage – and the oldest fresco on my Chronology of Last Suppers , painted 1343- 1355 by Andrea...
by Penny | 24 May, 2013 | Festival of San Giovanni, Lead story, Modern Art, News, Painting, Religious History, Sculpture, Social History
What makes a patron saint a patron saint?- and why did Florence choose John the Baptist? Having added a new patron saint and chosen St John the Baptist in the 1200’s as their Hero does he still have any relevance to modern day people in Florence? The image...
by Penny | 13 May, 2013 | Religious History, Renaissance Art, Sculpture, Social History
Madonna of the Harpies by Andrea del Sarto This famous painting displayed in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence was painted in 1515-17 by Andrea del Sarto for the Poor Clare nuns of San Francesco dei Macci. In 1335 this was a hospital founded by the Macri family, with...
by Penny | 12 Apr, 2013 | Painting, Renaissance Art, Sculpture, Social History
In 2005 Lynn Catterson, a summer lecturer in art history at Columbia University, presented an argument that this sculpture of Laocoon and his sons, shown above , was far from being an original ancient Roman statue and had in fact been sculpted by Michelangelo...
by Penny | 20 Mar, 2013 | Architecture, News, Renaissance Art, Sculpture, Social History
When I visited Siena with Chester and Maria last week I was struck by my ignorance of the provenance of this fountain – I had a memory that it had taken a long time to complete and the name Jacopo della Quercia at the back of my mind , but also a sense that his...
