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“On the right of it sits Midas with very large ears, extending his hand to Slander while she is still at some distance from him. Near him, on one side, stand two women—Ignorance and Suspicion. On the other side, Slander is coming up, a woman beautiful beyond measure, but full of malignant passion and excitement, evincing as she does fury and wrath by carrying in her left hand a blazing torch and with the other dragging by the hair a young man who stretches out his hands to heaven and calls the gods to witness his innocence. She is conducted by a pale ugly man who has piercing eye and looks as if he had wasted away in long illness; he represents envy. There are two women in attendance to Slander, one is Fraud and the other Conspiracy. They are followed by a woman dressed in deep mourning, with black clothes all in tatters—she is Repentance. At all events, she is turning back with tears in her eyes and casting a stealthy glance, full of shame, at Truth, who is slowly approaching.”
Uffizi Gallery | |||
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Native name | Galleria degli Uffizi | ||
Location | |||
Coordinates | 43° 46′ 06″ N, 11° 15′ 19″ E | ||
Established | 1581 (built), 1765 (open to public) | ||
Website | www.uffizi.it | ||
Authority file |
Collection Rodolfo Sirigatti, Florence
Collection Bianca Cappello, Florence
-1632: Collection don Antonio de' Medici, Florence
-1773: Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina e Appartamenti, Archivio segreto, Florence
1773: Galleria degli Uffizi, Palazzo degli Uffizi, Florence
13-6-1940: Villa medicea di Poggio a Caiano, Poggio a Caiano
31-10-1940: Eremo di Camaldoli, Poppi, Camaldoli
8-6-1945: Galleria degli Uffizi, Palazzo degli Uffizi, Deposito, Florence
Sandro Botticelli: pittore della Divina Commedia, Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome, 2000 (online)
Botticelli: de Laurent le Magnifique à Savonarole, Musée du Luxembourg, Paris, 2003/4 (online)
Botticelli e Filippino: l'inquietudine e la grazia nella pittura fiorentina del Quattrocento, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 2004 (online)
Italia - Russia attraverso i secoli. Da Giotto a Malevic. La reciproca meraviglia, Scuderie del Quirinale/Pushkin Museum, Rome/Moscow, 2004/5 (online)
The Renaissance Man Leon Battista Alberti and the Arts in Florence between Reason and Beauty, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 2006 (online)
Polo Museale Fiorentino, Inventario 1890: online database: entry 1496 (Italian)
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