“You entered the foyer of my mind and stumbled down the hall of my beginnings.” 🔪🩸🍴🦌
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Black silk dress, ca. 1861, English.
Worn by Emilia Tedeschi.
Uffizi Gallery.
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Lucius Aelius Caesar, intended heir to Hadrian. Born Lucius Ceionius Commodus on 13 January 101 CE, he was abruptly adopted by Hadrian in 136, after a near-fatal hemorrhage convinced the emperor that a designated successor was needed. (The move angered two men who had thought themselves in line for the position, Hadrian's brother-in-law Servianus and his grandson Fuscus Salinator. Claims of a planned coup circulated, and Hadrian had both men executed, which cast a dark cloud over the last years of his reign.) Lucius Aelius himself was in poor health and predeceased Hadrian on 1 January 138. In his stead, Hadrian adopted the future Antoninus Pius and compelled Antoninus in turn to adopt two heirs: the future Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Aelius' son, the future Lucius Verus.
Portrait bust by an unknown artist, 2nd century CE. Now in the Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. Photo credit: Carole Raddato.
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Apollino, 1st century AD
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Luciano Baldessari, Luminator, Bernocchi S.A., 1929
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self-portrait of comic artist Will Eisner being drawn by his character The Spirit/Denny Colt
donated by a generous donor to the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, is currently part of an exhibition of artists' self-portraits
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Sleeping Ariadne (fragment)
Greek, Hellenistic period.
Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
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UFFIZI GALLERY - Niobe Room, Florence, ITALY
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In a gallery far far away...
The birth of Venus by Sandro Botticelli. Uffizi Gallery.
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Oil painting, ca. 1537, Italy.
Portraying Eleanor Gonzaga in a black dress.
Painted by Titian.
Uffizi Gallery.
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Self-Portrait in a Tondo, Lavinia Fontana, 1579
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The Madonna with child, Saint John the Baptist and Saint Sebastian, Pietro Perugino, 1493
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Angelica Kauffmann (Swiss,1741–1807) • Self-portrait as the Muse of Painting • 1787 • Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy
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