DOI Heft:
No. 327 (June 1920)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21360#0164
STUDIO-TALK
UFFIZI GALLERY, FLORENCE,
SALA VIII (UMBRIAN AND SIENESE
SCHOOLS, FIFTEENTH CENTURY)
life, now contains not only the priceless
frescoes, great and little, which he left upon
its walls, but also the altar pieces and other
paintings which, for all their loveliness, had
never seemed quite at home in the Uffizi
rooms. 0 a o a a
But to return to the Uffizi. The long
entrance corridor, running the whole length
of the building, and once crowded with a
mingling of ancient statuary and paintings
of the earliest Tuscan school and cases full
of drawings and prints, has now been
wholly cleared of pictures ; its wall space
is entirely empty, save for an occasional
tapestry ; its glass side is no longer encum-
bered by the cases of prints ; and nothing
remains but the old Greek and Roman
statues and busts and sarcophagi, thus
better exhibited in its broad empty spaces
than ever before. 0000
On entering the first hall of paintings,
one is as delighted with what one finds as
with the arrangement. The pictures are
hung at wide intervals against the quiet
coloured walls, and only one line of them
around the room, and there is the delightful
surprise of discovering, intelligibly grouped
among the others, paintings which, for-
merly hung in the Accademia delle Belle
158
Arti, now find a place here in a better
grouping and a better light. 0 0
Here, for instance, now hangs th&t great
Madonna of Cimabue's, own sister to the
one in Santa Maria Novella, which so
enchanted the people with its beauty that
they bore it in triumph through the streets,
legend claiming that the “ Borgo Allegro,"
the “ Joyous Suburb," took its name from
that event. And close by a splendid
Madonna by his pupil, Giotto ; and other
primitives which previously were a little
lost in the crowded corridor, and now can
be seen and appreciated as never before.
And one finds the same improved
arrangement in each room one enters.
Botticelli's greatest works hang in a large
sala, where the Primavera, brought from
the ** Accademia " now finds itself once
more, rightfully, near the Birth of Venus,
the two having been painted for a single
room of one of the villas of Lorenzo de'
Medici. Here, too, brought from the
Accademia, hangs his great Virgin with
Saints, and the four little pictures of its
predella below it; and in the adjoining
room, together with his Judith and Holo-
fernes and Calumny, and the works of the
Pollaiuoli Brothers, and Leonardo, is the
UFFIZI GALLERY, FLORENCE,
SALA VIII (UMBRIAN AND SIENESE
SCHOOLS, FIFTEENTH CENTURY)
life, now contains not only the priceless
frescoes, great and little, which he left upon
its walls, but also the altar pieces and other
paintings which, for all their loveliness, had
never seemed quite at home in the Uffizi
rooms. 0 a o a a
But to return to the Uffizi. The long
entrance corridor, running the whole length
of the building, and once crowded with a
mingling of ancient statuary and paintings
of the earliest Tuscan school and cases full
of drawings and prints, has now been
wholly cleared of pictures ; its wall space
is entirely empty, save for an occasional
tapestry ; its glass side is no longer encum-
bered by the cases of prints ; and nothing
remains but the old Greek and Roman
statues and busts and sarcophagi, thus
better exhibited in its broad empty spaces
than ever before. 0000
On entering the first hall of paintings,
one is as delighted with what one finds as
with the arrangement. The pictures are
hung at wide intervals against the quiet
coloured walls, and only one line of them
around the room, and there is the delightful
surprise of discovering, intelligibly grouped
among the others, paintings which, for-
merly hung in the Accademia delle Belle
158
Arti, now find a place here in a better
grouping and a better light. 0 0
Here, for instance, now hangs th&t great
Madonna of Cimabue's, own sister to the
one in Santa Maria Novella, which so
enchanted the people with its beauty that
they bore it in triumph through the streets,
legend claiming that the “ Borgo Allegro,"
the “ Joyous Suburb," took its name from
that event. And close by a splendid
Madonna by his pupil, Giotto ; and other
primitives which previously were a little
lost in the crowded corridor, and now can
be seen and appreciated as never before.
And one finds the same improved
arrangement in each room one enters.
Botticelli's greatest works hang in a large
sala, where the Primavera, brought from
the ** Accademia " now finds itself once
more, rightfully, near the Birth of Venus,
the two having been painted for a single
room of one of the villas of Lorenzo de'
Medici. Here, too, brought from the
Accademia, hangs his great Virgin with
Saints, and the four little pictures of its
predella below it; and in the adjoining
room, together with his Judith and Holo-
fernes and Calumny, and the works of the
Pollaiuoli Brothers, and Leonardo, is the