Uffizi Top Floor

Chronologically, Uffizi begins on the top floor, starting with Medievel and Early-Renaissance Art.

Annunciation by Simone Martini is Medieval Gothic Art. As such, while highly-ornamented, there is none of the perspective, depth, or realistic anatomy of Renaissance art. Disconcertingly spindly fingers and hands, for instance.

The sectioned layout of the frame is typical of an altarpiece (originally in Sienna Cathedral). Each figure has a halo. The Angel Gabriel announces to Mary that she will be the mother of Jesus Christ.

From left to right, the figures depicted in Botticelli’s Spring, are Mercury God of Commerce, the Three Graces, Cupid son of Venus, Venus Goddess of Love, Flora Roman Goddess of Flowers, Chloris Greek equivalent of Flora morphing into Flora, and Zephyrus God of the West Wind.

The Orange Grove setting reflects the Medici Coat of Arms.

Sculpture Hall in Uffizi, a historic city office building that is now the more prestigious art gallery in Florence, is lined with 2,000 year-old Roman copies of 2,500 year-old Greek sculpture.

This is a replica of an Ancient Sculpture that was excavated in Rome and is currently on display in Vatican Museums.

Trojan Priest Laocoon and his sons are attacked by giant snakes sent from the gods because reasons. The point here is the sophistication of Ancient Greek and Roman Sculpture.

If I understand correctly, this is an Ancient Roman copy of an Ancient Greek Sculpture which goes by the name Boy With Thorn. It may have at one point been located in San Marco Garden, where Michelangelo might have studied it.

Poor guy, I hope he gets it out!