Uffizi Museum and Galileo Museum, Florence, Italy April 17, 2015

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The Ponte Vecchio spaning the Arno River
The Uffizi Museum is on the right

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Head of Medusa Unknown Flemish Master

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Bust of Julius Caesar

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Tomb stele of a husband and wife (1st century AD)

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Hercules and Nessus (3rd century BC)

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one of the hundreds of Medici family portraits in a frieze atop the long corridor

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Adoration of the Child by Filippino Lippi (c 1480)

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St. Jerome by Filippino Lippi (c 1485)

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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

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Dukes of Urbino by Piero della Francesca

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Botticelli's Birth of Venus

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"Coronation of the Virgin with and angels and Saints John the Evangelist, Augustine, Jerome, Eligius" by Alessandro Filipepi Botticelli, 1490, tempera on wood

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The Annunciation by Simone Martini

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The Coronation of the Virgin by Fra Angelico

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Adoration of the Magi by Gentile da Fabiano

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Madonna by Giotto

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Birth of Venus by Botticceli

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Adoration of the Magi by Don Lorenzo Monaco

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Madonna and Child with St. Anne by Masaccio

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Adoration of the Magi by Botticceli

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Adoration of the Magi by Botticceli

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La Primavera by Botticelli

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Adoration of the Magi by Leonardo da Vinci

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Madonna and Child with Angel by Filippo Lippi

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Dukes of Urbino by Piero della Francesca

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Sacred Allegory by Giovanni Bellini

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Baptism of Christ by Andrea del Vercocchio and Leonardo da Vinci

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Annunciation by Leonardo da Vinci

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Madonna with a Long Neck by Parmigianino

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Adoration of the Magi by Andrea Mantegna

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Perseus Fleeing Andromeda by Piero di Cosimo

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Madonna of the Goldfinch by Raphael

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Flora by Titian

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Venus of Urbino by Titian

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Judgement of Solomon by Giorgione

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Doni Tondo by Michelangelo

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Pope Leo and Family by Raphael

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Sacrifice of Isaac by Caravaggio

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Moses Undergoing Trial By Fire by Giorgione

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Battle of San Romano by Paolo Uccello

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Lamentation of Christ by Rogier van der Weyden

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Rest on the Flight to Egypt by Correggio

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Medusa by Caravaggio

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Portrait of Maria Teresa de Vallabriga on Horseback by Francisco de Goya

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Madonna and Angels by Hans Memling

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Adoration of the Magi by Albrecht Durer

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Young Bacchus by Caravaggio (1596)

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Self Portrait by Diego Velazquez (1645)

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Triumph of Henry IV in Paris by Pieter Paul Rubens

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Rembrandt Self Portrait (1668)

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Portrait of Johan Comenius by Rembrandt

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Eleanor of Toledo by Agnolo Bronzino

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Portinari Triptych by Hugo van der Goes (1477)

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Martyrdom of St. Justina by Paolo Veronese (1520)

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Portrait of Charles V by Anthony van Dyck

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Martyrdom of St. Florian by Albrecht Altdorfer (1520)

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cylinder dial

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We walked over to the Galileo Museum, around the corner from the Uffizi Gallery
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Saints John and Francis by El Greco

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model of the Copernican universe, with the earth in the center

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Arthur Luehrmann and telescopes

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Apparatus to demonstrate the parabolic trajectory of projectiles

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Galileo Galilei