Rooms 4 and 5
Room 4 brings us closer to the splendour and magnificence that surrounded Lorenzo and Giovanna during their married life. Important paintings were made for the decoration and furnishings of Lorenzo’s chamber in Palazzo Tornabuoni, the symbolic centre of his own, new household. The exhibition offers the unique opportunity of seeing together—for the first time in five hundred years—four of the most beautiful works that graced Lorenzo’s luxurious chamera: three beautifully preserved panels illustrating the story of Jason and Medea [cat. 24–26] and the spectacular tondo by Domenico Ghirlandaio with the Adoration of the Magi [cat. 27]. Together with scenes from the Trojan War, these pictures exalted the Greco-Roman concept of heroism as well as lofty Christian ideals, against the background of great cultural optimism and the belief in a new Golden Age. The other works selected for this section are aimed at placing the Degli Albizzi-Tornabuoni marriage within a wider context. The paintings in room 5 have their origins in the social circle in which both families moved. The panel depicting a scene from the novella of Nastagio degli Onesti [cat. 37], painted after a design by Botticelli, is part of an ensemble of paintings commissioned to adorn a camera in Palazzo Pucci, which in all likelihood served as a model for the chamera di Lorenzo.
Room 4
La chamera di Lorenzo, bella-
- Biagio D’Antonio (Florence, 1446–1512). The Betrothal of Jason and Medea in the Temple of Apollo, 1487. Tempera and oil on panel, 79 x 160 cm. Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs; inv. n. Pe 102. Les Arts Décoratifs, Paris Fotografía: Laurent Sully Jaulmes
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- Domenico Ghirlandaio (Florence, 1448/49–1494). Adoration of the Magi, 1487. Tempera and oil (?) on panel, diam. 171.5 cm. Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi; inv. n. 1890.1619. “Soprintendenza Speciale per il Polo Museale Fiorentino. Gabinetto Fotografico”
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- Autor:
- Florence, fifteenth century
- Título:
- Betrothal Chest with Coats of Arms of the Tornabuoni and Degli Albizzi Families
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- Wood with molded, gilded and polychrome stucco, h.14.5 cm, diam. 33.5 cm
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- Private collection
- Fotografía: Rabatti & Domingie Photography
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- Autor:
- Attributed to Baccio Baldini (Florence, ca. 1436–1487)
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- Pair of Dancers encircled by a Wreath with Music-Making Cupids and a Reclining Couple, ca. 1465–80
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- Engraving, diam. 200 mm
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- London, The British Museum, Department of Prints and Drawings; inv. n. 1852.0301.1
- © The Trustees of the British Museum, London
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Room 5
- Sandro Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi) (Florence, 1444/45–1510) and Bartolomeo di Giovanni (active in Florence, ca. 1475–ca. 1500/5). The Banquet in the Pinewoods: Third Scene of the Story of Nastagio degli Onesti, 1483. Tempera on panel, 84 x 142 cm. Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado; inv. n. P02840. © Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
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- Sandro Botticelli (Alessandro di Mariano Filipepi) (Florence, 1444/1445–1510) and workshop, probably Jacopo di Domenico di Papi da San Gaggio (Florence, 1460–1530). The Judgement of Paris, ca. 1483–85 Tempera on panel, 81 x 197 cm. Venice, Fondazione Giorgio Cini; inv. n. 40015. Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venezia. Fotografía: Matteo De Fina
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- Autor:
- Gherardo di Giovanni del Fora (Florence, 1445/46–1497)
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- The Combat of Love and Chastity, 1480–90
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- Tempera on panel, 42.5 x 34.9 cm
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- Úbicacion:
- London, The National Gallery; bought, 1885; inv. n. NG1196
- © The National Gallery, London
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- Anonymous Florentine craftsman, last quarter of the fifteenth century. Wedding Chest showing the Coat of Arms of the Strozzi Family. Wood covered with vellum painted in tempera, gilded leather, 45 x 160 x 47 cm. Grassina (Florence), Carlotta Bruschi Collection. Collezione Carlotta Bruschi, Grassina © Fotografía: Giusti Paolo e Claudio