This is the port that took us to Florence on a 10-hour excursion. We had an excellent guide and I now have a much broader understanding of The David by Michelangelo. He sculpted this 17-foot colossus over an intense three-year period, as a symbol of the state’s independence from the Medici misrule. The people, David, slew the Medici Goliath. The Academia now holds wing 6 of the unfinished marble carvings that were to have been in the Medici tombs. These powerful carvings show how Michelangelo liberated form from a marble block, as he did with the David, which in the 1500s was lewdly referred to as “Il BIANCONE” “the big white one”. We walked through the city past the Duomo, the Baptistery and Giotto’s tower to reach the Uffizi gallery. Vasari, the architect linked the Palazzo Vecchio through an art corridor of the Uffizi to the Ponte Veccho and over the Arno to the Pitti Palace with its 6 galleries and its Boboli gardens. Our guide helped us to understand the transformation of art in the 14th century from the rigid Byzantine configuration of the holy family to a portrayal by Giotto of humans interacting. Further humanistic changes followed Uccello, Fra Filippo Lippi, Botticelli, Raphael, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, and then Caravaggio. By these changes the viewer is brought into the art in a more and more compelling fashion, and through this process one experiences change.
This is the port that took us to Florence on a 10-hour excursion. We had an excellent guide and I now have a much broader understanding of The David by Michelangelo. He sculpted this 17-foot colossus over an intense three-year period, as a symbol of the state’s independence from the Medici misrule. The people, David, slew the Medici Goliath. The Academia now holds wing 6 of the unfinished marble carvings that were to have been in the Medici tombs. These powerful carvings show how Michelangelo liberated form from a marble block, as he did with the David, which in the 1500s was lewdly referred to as “Il BIANCONE” “the big white one”. We walked through the city past the Duomo, the Baptistery and Giotto’s tower to reach the Uffizi gallery. Vasari, the architect linked the Palazzo Vecchio through an art corridor of the Uffizi to the Ponte Veccho and over the Arno to the Pitti Palace with its 6 galleries and its Boboli gardens. Our guide helped us to understand the transformation of art in the 14th century from the rigid Byzantine configuration of the holy family to a portrayal by Giotto of humans interacting. Further humanistic changes followed Uccello, Fra Filippo Lippi, Botticelli, Raphael, Michelangelo, Rembrandt, and then Caravaggio. By these changes the viewer is brought into the art in a more and more compelling fashion, and through this process one experiences change.
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