Dat is wat je een opbouw naar een hoogtepunt noemt:

Laat ik beginnen met vragen of ik al gezegd had dat het er druk was?

Of dat het regende?

Het zou snel droog worden.

Terug naar het serieuzere werk. Binnenkort mag je een werk als dit niet meer laten zien….

Florence, Uffizi, Annibale Carracci, Venus with satyr and two cupids, circa 1587 – 1588. Oil on canvas.

Artimisia Gentileschi, Judith beheading Holofernes, circa 1620 – 1621. Oil on canvas.

Francesco Montelatici detto Cecco Bravo, Armida, circa 1650 – 1655. Oil on canvas.

Armida is a beautiful oriental sorceress who is madly in love with the crusader Rinaldo, whose stories are told by Torquato Tasso in Gerusalemme Liberata, one of the most beloved poems in Florence in the seventeenth century.
Left by her lover, Armida unleashes monstrous demons to carry out her revenge.
Cecco Bravo was an exceptional and bizarre artist, one of the most exciting and original of his age in Florence.
He enchants us with an atmospheric painting which is the result of his knowledge of Venetian art.
The painting was donated by the Friends of the Uffizi Galleries in 2011 (? date almost unreadible).

Ambito do Otto Marseus van Schrieck, Head of Medusa, first half of the 17th century. Oil on panel.

Canvas op een schild. Daarop schilderde Michelangelo Merisi detto Caravaggio, Testa di Medusa, circa 1597. Oil on canvas / covered panel.