'Adoration' Returns Architecture to Humble Forms

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.

The polyptych was dismembered in the 19th century. It is now presented in a new form that suggests the work’s original completeness.

The work is dated 1535 and is associated with the Uffizi. It presents Adam and Eve wandering naked through the dense darkness of the forest of the earthly Paradise after being expelled from Eden.