Wednesday, June 2, 2010

While going to the Uffizi and looking at artists like Giotto, da Vinci, Raphael, and Michelangelo, we were able to see a Caravaggio exhibit showing about three of his original works and dozens of others that embodied style over the next two centuries after his death. In that I found that between the two locations they were showing these works in the Uffizi and the Pitti Palace they presented two different ways of viewings these paintings. The Uffizi used more of a linear path were the Pitti Palace allowed the viewers to explore all the works in more of a less directed manner allowing you to choose different paths. Between the two I found a heavy presence of death and how the different artists were interpreting this idea. I found the skull to be a reoccurring object used in some of the paintings that mimicked Caravaggio's style.

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