Dan Brown, the author of The Da Vinci Code and Angels & Demons, published his latest novel, Inferno, a couple of week ago.
I’ve been slowly making my way through the book since its release. The first part of the book is set in Florence. I am not sure about the rest of the book, since I am only 1/3 through it.
I am currently at the part where Robert Langdon, a Harvard University professor of religious iconology and symbology, is making his way through the Vasari Corridor, a secure passageway between the Pitti Palace and the Palazzo Vecchio, which also happens to be a part of the famous Uffizi Gallery.
I visited the place a few years ago and took some photos (you’re actually not allowed to take photos, hence the poor quality) of the artworks which Langdon will pass along his escape route through the gallery.
Actually, I only took the photos of the paintings which depicted nude or semi-nude women. I figured some of the women in paintings were probably some sort of celebs in their own times, so they might be worth of an article one day.
Most of the nude paintings depict religious motives from The Bible and Greek and Roman mythology. Eve, Mother Mary and Venus are the most recurring subject you’ll find on your way through the gallery.
I probably missed a few paintings during my visit, since parts of the gallery were closed for restoration. I you can’t visit the gallery in person, you can also take a virtual tour through
Uffizi Gallery via Google’s Art Project.
Here’s a list of paintings included in this article:
- Sandro Botticelli: The Birth of Venus
- Giovanni da san Giovanni: Bacco e Arianna
- Masolino: Madonna and child
- Lorenzo di Credi: Venere
- Lukas Cranach il Vecchio: Eve
- Hans Baldung Grien: Eve
- Francesco Melzi: Leda and the swan
- Bronzino: Pygmalion and Galatea
- Amico Friulano: Allegoria
- Tintoretto: Adam and Eve in front of god
- Tintoretto: Leda and the swan
- Fontainebleau: Two women in a bathtub
- Jacopo Ligozzi: La fortuna
- Titian: Venus and Cupid
- Bernardino Licinio : Reclining Female Nude
- Benvenuto Cellini: statue of Perseus with the Head of Medusa... I meant to post this three years ago when Clash of the Titans came out. Well, it looks like I got a second chance.
I am not sure if the next movie in the series will be based on this book. Imdb states that Brown is currently working on a new screenplay for the third part in the series supposedly titled The Lost Symbol. The plot would revolve around a mystery involving the Freemasons and would be set in the United States.