Artworks in Tuscany

The Venus of Urbino is a 1538 oil painting by the Italian master Titian. It depicts a nude young woman, identified with the goddess Venus, reclining on a couch or bed in the sumptuous surroundings of a Renaissance palace. It hangs in the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence. The figure’s read more

The Madonna and Child with St. Anne, also known as Sant’Anna Metterza, is a painting of c. 1424 by the Italian Renaissance painter Masaccio, probably in collaboration with Masolino da Panicale. The painting is in the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence, Italy, and measures 175 centimetres high and 103 centimetres read more

The Double portrait of the Dukes of Urbino is a diptych, oil on panel (47×33 cm each panel) with the portraits of the couple Federico da Montefeltro and Battista Sforza, the work of Piero della Francesca dated to about 1,465 to 1,472 and in the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence.

The Heaven’s Gate is the eastern gate of the Baptistery in Florence, the main one located in front of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore.

The Birth of Venus (Italian: Nascita di Venere) is a painting by Sandro Botticelli generally thought to have been painted in the mid 1480s. It has long been suggested that Botticelli was commissioned to paint the work by the Medici family of Florence, specifically Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de’ Medici under read more

Primavera (Italian pronunciation: [primaˈveːra]), also known as Allegory of Spring, is a tempera panel painting by Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli. Painted ca. 1482, the painting is described in Culture & Values (2009) as “one of the most popular paintings in Western art”.[1] It is also, according to Botticelli, Primavera (1998), read more