Divine elegance, Simone Martini’s The Annunciation
A conversation with Dr. Steven Zucker and Dr. Beth Harris in front of Simone Martini and Lippo Memmi, Annunciation with St. Margaret and St. Ansanus, 1333, tempera on wood, gold background, 184 x 168 cm (Uffizi, Florence) Read more about Simone Martini: Simone Martini influential in Gothic style
Sandro Botticelli, Representative of the Golden Age of the Early Italian Renaissance
Sandro Botticelli, (1445-1510) was an Italian painter of the Florentine school during the Early Renaissance. Less than a hundred years later, this movement, under the patronage of Lorenzo de’ Medici, was characterized by Giorgio Vasari as a “golden age”, a thought, suitably enough, he expressed at the head of his Vita of Botticelli. His posthumous […]