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| Keywords: Sandro Botticelli 021.jpg Artwork Q1217187 creator Sandro Botticelli of a painting by Apelles a Greek painter of the Hellenistic Period Apelles' works have not survived but Lucian recorded details of one in his On Calumny <br> On the right of it sits Midas with very large ears extending his hand to Slander while she is still at some distance from him Near him on one side stand two women ”Ignorance and Suspicion On the other side Slander is coming up a woman beautiful beyond measure but full of malignant passion and excitement evincing as she does fury and wrath by carrying in her left hand a blazing torch and with the other dragging by the hair a young man who stretches out his hands to heaven and calls the gods to witness his innocence She is conducted by a pale ugly man who has piercing eye and looks as if he had wasted away in long illness; he represents envy There are two women in attendance to Slander one is Fraud and the other Conspiracy They are followed by a woman dressed in deep mourning with black clothes all in tatters ”she is Repentance At all events she is turning back with tears in her eyes and casting a stealthy glance full of shame at Truth who is slowly approaching it L'opera è ispirata al celebre perduto dipinto di Appelle descritto dalli scrittore greco Luciano nel De Calumnia e da Leon Battista Alberti nel De Pictura La scena raffigura da destra il Re Mida mal consigliato dal Sospetto e dall'Ignoranza il Livore come un uomo barbato col cappuccio la Calunnia - con una face - che trascina il calunniato la Frode e l'Insidia dietro di lei e la Penitenza come una vecchia in abiti laceri che guarda alla Verità nuda e con lo sguardo levato al cielo ca 1496 1497 Tempera on wood cm 62 91 Institution Uffizi 10-14 del Botticelli /until spring 2016 41 http //www uffizi firenze it/musei/ m uffizi Click visita il museo -->Cerca Botticelli 2 <br> 1496 Exhibition history Scuderie del Quirinale Rome 2000 http //www scuderiequirinale it/categorie/categoria-162 online <br> Temporary Exhibition Botticelli de Laurent le Magnifique à Savonarole Musée du Luxembourg Paris 2003/4 http //www senat fr/evenement/botticelli/ online <br> Temporary Exhibition Botticelli e Filippino l'inquietudine e la grazia nella pittura fiorentina del Quattrocento Palazzo Strozzi Florence 2004 http //www botticellipalazzostrozzi it online <br> Scuderie del Quirinale/Pushkin Museum Rome / Moscow 2004/5 http //www scuderiequirinale it/categorie/categoria-180 online <br> Temporary Exhibition langswitch The Renaissance Man Leon Battista Alberti and the Arts in Florence between Reason and Beauty L'uomo del Rinascimento Leon Battista Alberti e le arti a Firenze tra ragione e bellezza Palazzo Strozzi Florence 2006 langswitch http //www albertiefirenze it/english/home htm online http //www albertiefirenze it/home htm online <br> Temporary Exhibition Denaro e bellezza I banchieri Botticelli e il rogo delle vanità Palazzo Strozzi Florence 2011/2 http //www palazzostrozzi org/mostre/denaro-e-bellezza/ online Object history < 1550 Collection Fabio Segni Florence Collection Rodolfo Sirigatti Florence <br> Collection Bianca Cappello Florence <br> -1632 Collection don Antonio de' Medici Florence <br> -1773 Palazzo Pitti Galleria Palatina e Appartamenti Archivio segreto Florence <br> 1773 Galleria degli Uffizi Palazzo degli Uffizi Florence <br> 13-6-1940 Villa medicea di Poggio a Caiano Poggio a Caiano 31-10-1940 Eremo di Camaldoli Poppi Camaldoli 8-6-1945 Galleria degli Uffizi Palazzo degli Uffizi Deposito Florence 24-6-1948 Galleria degli Uffizi Palazzo degli Uffizi Florence de Auftraggeber Antonio Segni Yorck http //mail wikipedia org/pipermail/wikide-l/2005-April/012195 html Other versions PD-old-100-1923 PD-Art-YorckProject Calumny of Apelles Botticelli 01 | ||||
