UFFIZI GALLERY: The grand tour of the 21st century
- carlottaceccarini9
- Jun 18, 2022
- 2 min read
The museum of the greatest artists: from the Gothic to the Renaissance, from Mannerism to the Baroque. Mantegna, Rubens, Leonardo, Botticelli, Caravaggio, Cimabue, Raphael, Giotto, Tiziano, Parmigianino, Canaletto, Durer, Rembrandt are just some of the great names that coexist within the Florentine museum. Classical Western art from the 12th century to the present day.
The Uffizi Gallery opens its doors for an exclusive journey through its masterpieces. A documentary directed by Alessandro d’Alessandro in 2016 and now available in streaming on Amazon Prime Video.
The wedding of Caterina and Maria de Medici made by Empoli opens the museum’s doors. Intertwining flowers, animals, mythological and anthropomorphic creatures dominate the ancient statuary that leads to the origins of Italian painting. The madonnas on the throne of the late twelfth century by Cimabue, Duccio da Buoninsegna and Giotto promoted the Renaissance research of a perspective composition. The contrast between the taste for the preciousness and delicacy of the line typical of Sienese painting and the volume and shape of the Florentine style emerges.
The Tuscan tradition renews all the Italian late Gothic culture when the rich taste of the Italian courts begins to make its way. Gentile da Fabriano embodies the sumptuousness of courteous aesthetics. The newly born Renaissance sees Masaccio's religious icons. Spirituality then leaves space for the noise of hooves, the shouts of soldiers, the screeching of spears colliding and hunting scenes, painted by Paolo Uccello, in a timeless dimension. The perspective composition takes over humanity.
Piero della Francesca's diptych of the Dukes of Urbino takes a further step in the direction of the Renaissance perspective. Solemn and suspended in the light, the protagonists and the landscape in the background follow a Flemish taste in synergy with a more classic composition. Research pursued by Filippo Lippi who introduces an intimate and gentle atmosphere through the nuanced technique, which sees Da Vinci as his master.
Botticelli's profane and mythological subjects dance in the Spring and emerge from the foam of the sea. Allegories of neo-Platonic references are intertwined with legends of love on large timeless canvases that flow into the splendor of the ancient world of Mantegna and into the dialogue about Mannerism between past and present, between Michelangelo's Tondo Doni and Hellenistic Arianne Dormiente.
Through the neo-classical, Titian, Veronese and Tintoretto, opens the sixteenth-century. Andrea del Sarto and then Raphael are the main figures. The latter, looking at Leonardo's painting, creates a sweet, intimate and natural imagery, an aesthetic summed up in the Madonna del Cardellino.
The docu-film makes you live a journey inside this magnificent museum, the high-resolution images convey the feeling of being surrounded by the masterpieces of the history of art despite the kilometers away. Painting and sculpture constantly dialogue with each other, opening universal debates. Spirituality and mythology, history and philosophy, love and passion are the main dichotomies in the biography of great Italian and European masters. The shocking and incredibly realistic characters of the people of Caravaggio lead to the end of this journey into the world of art.
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