Saturday, May 22, 2010

Can I Keep A Compact Refrigerator In My Room

... is not a breeze!










If we make a trip to Florence, we can not go for a visit to the Uffizi Gallery, the magnificent treasure chest of wonderful works of art.
In the room devoted to Sandro Botticelli, we find "The Slander" (1494-1496 or so), small compared with other works by the artist who are in the same room as the "Birth of Venus" or "Spring" but in its 62x 91 cm, condensing all the meanings that the artist wanted to represent.
His reading is performed from right to left.
The table shows a large room overlooking the sea, gold encrusted with friezes and reliefs and statues of illustrious men and women. A king sits
Enthroned and the long donkey ears, in which two women, personifications of suspicion and ignorance, innuendo and whisper the king's arm tends towards a hooded man, the Livore, which is the same.
This is accompanied by a young girl with a burning torch, slander, where two other girls envy and fraud, adorn their hair with flowers and ribbons to make it more appealing and credible.
The Calumny drags his right hand to crown the maligned, naked and with hands clasped in prayer and the far left of the composition, are flanked by haggard old worn-out clothes, Penance (or Regret?) And a girl with the naked eye and the hand right hand raised to heaven, the personification of truth that comes from God and eventually triumphs. Since Vasari
we hear that Botticelli had given the painting "to his friend Antonio Segni" and maybe he would run to celebrate the rehabilitation of his wrongly accused for his past during the period of the republic filomedicei Savonarola.





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