Detail of the Statue of Italian Condottiero Lodovico de' Medici, also known as Giovanni delle Bande Nere
“Non mi snudare senza ragione. Non mi impugnare senza valore.”
“Do not unsheathe me without reason. Do not wield me without valour.”
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I love art history
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The Wrestlers, Pergamene school, 379-300 B.C
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Hannibal had to make it up 3 floors and walk through a whole wing full of sculptures of curly haired twinks to go sit in front of Primavera. There is no message here, it's just funny
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Lucius Aelius Caesar, intended heir to Hadrian. Born Lucius Ceionius Commodus on 13 January 101 CE, he was abruptly adopted by Hadrian in 136, after a near-fatal hemorrhage convinced the emperor that a designated successor was needed. (The move angered two men who had thought themselves in line for the position, Hadrian's brother-in-law Servianus and his grandson Fuscus Salinator. Claims of a planned coup circulated, and Hadrian had both men executed, which cast a dark cloud over the last years of his reign.) Lucius Aelius himself was in poor health and predeceased Hadrian on 1 January 138. In his stead, Hadrian adopted the future Antoninus Pius and compelled Antoninus in turn to adopt two heirs: the future Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Aelius' son, the future Lucius Verus.
Portrait bust by an unknown artist, 2nd century CE. Now in the Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. Photo credit: Carole Raddato.
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Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy.
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Rings in 16th century paintings
Raffaello Sanzio, Ritratti di Agnolo Doni e Maddalena Strozzi (c. 1504-1506)
Tiziano Vecellio, Ritratto di Eleonora Gonzaga della Rovere (c. 1537)
Agnolo Bronzino, Ritratto di giovane donna con libro (c. 1545)
Agnolo Bronzino, Ritratto di Lucrezia Panciatichi (c. 1541)
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UFFIZI GALLERY - FIRENZE
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At the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, they have separate versions of paintings for blind and visually impaired visitors so they can still enjoy the art.
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The Birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli
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Apollino, 1st century AD
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Luciano Baldessari, Luminator, Bernocchi S.A., 1929
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Self-Portrait in a Tondo, Lavinia Fontana, 1579
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