‘Pontormo’s Adam and Eve in the Uffizi’

A Uffizi post presents the female beauty in this enigmatic allegory as a symbol of Truth, finally freed from worldly vanities and rising toward the sacred and knowledge.

The Uffizi highlights 16th-century caricatures by Brambilla. Brambilla’s caricatures draw on artists such as Leonardo da Vinci.

‘Stigmate di san Francesco’ is dated 1240–1250 and attributed to the Maestro della Croce 434 degli Uffizi, a painter associated with Lucca and Florence in the second quarter of the 13th century.

In the first corridor of the Uffizi, the silhouette of an athletic figure emerges. The work is a Roman marble copy of Polykleitos’s Doryphoros, which Polykleitos realized in the fifth century BCE.