Here is our resource page for our Fall 2022 special exhibition: Botticelli and Renaissance Florence: Masterworks from the Uffizi
October 16, 2022 – January 8, 2023
Tours will run October 25 to December 22.
As materials become available, we will post them here.
The recording of the exhibition lecture on October 11. Please note that the AV technician discovered a problem with the sound 10 minutes into the recording, so the first 10 minutes are without sound. The lecture by Eike Schmidt on October 16 is also being recorded, and we’ll provide a link to that recording when available:
Lecture with Rachel McGarry, Eike Schmidt, and Roberta Bartoli 10.11.22
Here is a link to the recording of the lecture by Eike Schmidt and Roberta Bartoli, on 10.16.22:
Living in Florence in the Age of Botticelli
CHECKLIST, with images of objects:
A-September Checklist – Botticelli and Renaissance Florence reduced
LABELS:
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PANELS:
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Exhibition Layout:
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Key for layout: BOTTICELLI IN MINNEAPOLIS_for Educator
Audio Tour Transcript:
Botticelli and Renaissance Florence_Audio Guide Transcript
and an information card on the audio tour: Audio Guide Card_Botticelli_Info Sheet
Catalog: digital version
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Fact Sheet (updated on 10.31.22):
Botticelli and Renaissance Florence Info Sheet 10-31-22
Here is the Teacher’s Guide:
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Here is the recording of our discussion of theme on October 20:
Botticelli theme discussion
Here are the slides:
Botticelli and Renaissance Florence_ themes
Here is the recording of our debrief session on November 22:
Botticelli guide check-in
Resources shared by Mia educators
The Uffizi website
(Including Pallas and the Centaur)
From the National Gallery of Art, a wonderful online resource on the Italian Renaissance:
Italian Renaissance Learning Resources
From Khan Academy, historical background on the Renaissance in Florence, as well as information on Botticelli and his most famous artworks:
General information on Italian Renaissance for Early, and High periods
Florence in the Early Renaissance
VIDEO: A celebration of beauty and love: Botticelli’s Birth of Venus
VIDEO: Botticelli, Primavera
Botticelli, Portrait of a Man with a Medal of Cosimo il Vecchio de’ Medici
Portraits and fashion: Sandro Botticelli, Portrait of a Young Woman
From ArtNews: From Medicis to Mythologies: How Sandro Botticelli Became One of History’s Most Influential Artists
From the Guardian about a previous Botticelli exhibition: The sword in the sky
Resources shared by guides
From the National Gallery of Art, a great video on metalpoint drawing: Metalpoint Drawing from Leonardo to Jasper Johns
From your colleague Bill Wilson, a recommendation for the PBS series, Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance.
From your colleague Terry Edam, a video from the Getty to connect to Botticelli’s training: “ In 1460 Botticelli’s father ceased his business as a tanner and became a gold-beater with his other son, Antonio. This profession would have brought the family into contact with a range of artists. Giorgio Vasari, in his Life of Botticelli, reported that Botticelli was initially trained as a goldsmith.” Gold Ground Painting
From your colleague Lisa Mayotte, a video: Know the Artist: Sandro Botticelli
From Lyn Osgood, a book recommendation: Botticelli’s Secret: The Lost Drawings and the Rediscovery of the Renaissance
From Regina Sindalovsky, a video from a previous Botticelli exhibition at MFA Boston: Botticelli: The Curator’s View
From Anna Bethune: Watch three season Netflix 2016 series on the Medici: “It shows the garden of st Marco with many familiar pieces and many of Boticelli and other paintings hanging on the walls of the Medici palace. I am sure this is very fictionalized but it helps place everyone and our Sandro B is a main character ( doesn’t look as I imagined him neither does Lorenzo) but it helps remember the context !”
From Meg Ubel, a Met Museum “spotlight” on a bronze sculpture of Spinario, link here.
From Diana Beutner, a great video from the Getty on how Renaissance artists used cartoons: Almost Invisible: The Cartoon Transfer
From Kat Christianson, a book recommendation: At Home in Renaissance Italy, by Marta Ajmar and Flora Dennis; Ms. Ajmar curated the related exhibition The Renaissance Home (2009) at the Victoria and Albert Museum and works in the V&A’s research department.