Uffizi Museum and Galileo Museum, Florence, Italy April 17, 2015
The Ponte Vecchio spaning the Arno River
The Uffizi Museum is on the right
Head of Medusa Unknown Flemish Master
Bust of Julius Caesar
Tomb stele of a husband and wife (1st century AD)
Hercules and Nessus (3rd century BC)
one of the hundreds of Medici family portraits in a frieze atop the long corridor
Adoration of the Child by Filippino Lippi (c 1480)
St. Jerome by Filippino Lippi (c 1485)
The Virtues
on the left is Fortitude, by Sandro Botticelli in 1470, tempera on wood, the other virtues are by other artists, also using tempera on wood
Dukes of Urbino by Piero della Francesca
Botticelli's Birth of Venus
"Coronation of the Virgin with and angels and Saints John the Evangelist, Augustine, Jerome, Eligius" by Alessandro Filipepi Botticelli, 1490, tempera on wood
The Annunciation by Simone Martini
The Coronation of the Virgin by Fra Angelico
Adoration of the Magi by Gentile da Fabiano
Madonna by Giotto
Birth of Venus by Botticceli
Adoration of the Magi by Don Lorenzo Monaco
Madonna and Child with St. Anne by Masaccio
Adoration of the Magi by Botticceli
Adoration of the Magi by Botticceli
La Primavera by Botticelli
Adoration of the Magi by Leonardo da Vinci
Madonna and Child with Angel by Filippo Lippi
Dukes of Urbino by Piero della Francesca
Sacred Allegory by Giovanni Bellini
Baptism of Christ by Andrea del Vercocchio and Leonardo da Vinci
Annunciation by Leonardo da Vinci
Madonna with a Long Neck by Parmigianino
Adoration of the Magi by Andrea Mantegna
Perseus Fleeing Andromeda by Piero di Cosimo
Madonna of the Goldfinch by Raphael
Flora by Titian
Venus of Urbino by Titian
Judgement of Solomon by Giorgione
Doni Tondo by Michelangelo
Pope Leo and Family by Raphael
Sacrifice of Isaac by Caravaggio
Moses Undergoing Trial By Fire by Giorgione
Battle of San Romano by Paolo Uccello
Lamentation of Christ by Rogier van der Weyden
Rest on the Flight to Egypt by Correggio
Medusa by Caravaggio
Portrait of Maria Teresa de Vallabriga on Horseback by Francisco de Goya
Madonna and Angels by Hans Memling
Adoration of the Magi by Albrecht Durer
Young Bacchus by Caravaggio (1596)
Self Portrait by Diego Velazquez (1645)
Triumph of Henry IV in Paris by Pieter Paul Rubens
Rembrandt Self Portrait (1668)
Portrait of Johan Comenius by Rembrandt
Eleanor of Toledo by Agnolo Bronzino
Portinari Triptych by Hugo van der Goes (1477)
Martyrdom of St. Justina by Paolo Veronese (1520)
Portrait of Charles V by Anthony van Dyck
Martyrdom of St. Florian by Albrecht Altdorfer (1520)
cylinder dial
Saints John and Francis by El Greco
model of the Copernican universe, with the earth in the center
Arthur Luehrmann and telescopes
Apparatus to demonstrate the parabolic trajectory of projectiles
Galileo Galilei