This past Friday, December 30th, 2022 several past and current Department of Art History graduate students assembled in Minneapolis, Minnesota to see an exhibition of works from Renaissance Florence focused on Sandro Botticelli that are on loan from the Uffizi Galleries in Florence, Italy. Sarah Stolte (Ph.D. 2019), Anna Betz (M.A. 2020), Tania Kolarik (Ph.D. Candidate), Claire Kilgore (Ph.D. Candidate), and Özlem Eren (Ph.D. Candidate) all enjoyed the exhibition along with the works on display in the permanent collection. The excursion of Art History badgers ended with dinner at The News Room in downtown Minneapolis. The exhibition, Botticelli and Renaissance Florence: Masterworks from the Uffizi, closes this Sunday, January 8th, 2023 at the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
Featured image left to right: Anna Betz, Tania Kolarik, Claire Kilgore, and Özlem Eren.
Sandro Botticelli, Pallas and the Centaur, tempera on canvas, 207 x 148 cm, Uffizi Galleries, Florence, inv. 1912 no. 29.