1. Virgin and Child enthroned with Sts
Dionysius the Aeropagite, Domenic,
Clement and Thomas Aquinas, by Domenico
Ghirlandaio. 1481–83. Oil on panel, 168 by 197
cm. (Gallerie degli Uffizi, Florence; photograph
Nicolò Orsi Battaglini; Bridgeman Images).
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The 1584 purchase contract for the Medici group of Niobe sculptures
1. The Niobid Room in the Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. (Courtesy
Gabinetto Fotografico delle Gallerie degli Uffizi).
Western art unattributed:
2. Fleeing Niobid. Roman copy of a Greek original of the second half of
the fourth century BC. Pentelic marble, height 228 cm. (Galleria degli
Uffizi, Florence; courtesy Gabinetto Fotografico delle Gallerie degli Uffizi).
Western art unattributed:
3. Niobe and her youngest daughter. Roman copy of a Greek original of
the second half of the fourth century BC. Pentelic marble, height 228 cm.
(Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence; Bridgeman Images).
Western art unattributed:
4. The Niobids’ tutor, by Giovan Battista de’ Cavalieri. Engraving,
27 by 21.3 cm. (From G.B. De’ Cavalieri: Antiquarum Statuarum Urbis
Romae, Rome 1594, pl.10).
Western art unattributed:
5. The Niobids’ tutor (‘Amphion’). Roman. Pentelic marble, height
181 cm. (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence; courtesy Gabinetto Fotografico
delle Gallerie degli Uffizi).