Our class had an excellent guided tour of the Uffizi gallery today and I wanted to share just a few things that made me smile. I could have taken a lot more photos, but I'm generally not a fan of taking a lot of photos in a museum; I feel that the photos never do justice to the original work and they take away from my experience whilst I'm in the museum. It's a real experience to view paintings in person also because paintings aren't merely flat pictures; paintings have texture, translucency and a real depth to them that cannot be captured in a photograph. To me, it's always like meeting a person in real life Vs. doing a video chat or something. There's so much beyond the surface! The collection is full of gems and I particularly enjoyed the Titians and the Caravaggios. I've loved Caravaggio for a long time, but I was surprised by how nice the Titians look--I think his paintings don't translate too well to photographs. Of course, the museum has Raphael, Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Botticelli (Birth of Venus), Rembrandt, Gentileschi, Rubens, Van Dyck, Bronzino, along with a lot of pre-Renaissance masters like Cimabue and Giotto. Maybe it's silly, but I enjoy the animals included in these great paintings also. I find it interesting that our love of pets and regard for animals hasn't really changed throughout history. The video on the left of the sleeping dog is a Titian and the cat in the right video is a Pontormo painting. Tough act to follow.. But, I'm also sharing a photo of my transfer drawing down below which I've been working on. We're going to use these drawings to create a final figure painting for the course. My still life is also going well so it's been a productive week here in Florence!
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