Flora — History & Facts
A young woman with curling copper-blond hair looks down and to the side against a dark brown background. Her white chemise slips off one shoulder, and a pink mantle hangs over her arm, gathered in her hand at the chest. In her other hand, at the lower left, she holds a small bunch of flowers. The Uffizi names the flowers as violets, rosebuds and jasmine.
The title Flora, after the nymph who became the goddess of spring, goes back to the painter and writer Joachim von Sandrart, who saw the picture around 1635 in Amsterdam; the museum stresses that it alludes less to the goddess than to feminine beauty. Titian painted it around 1517, and the Uffizi counts it among Venice's Belle, pictures of ideal beauties. Its owner in Amsterdam, Alfonso López, sold it to Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, and it reached Florence in 1793 in an exchange of artworks between the imperial gallery in Vienna and the grand dukes of Tuscany. The Uffizi cites the many engravings made from it since the 16th century as proof of its fame.
It is in the Uffizi in Florence.
Sources: Uffizi Gallery, record 1462 · Wikidata Q2046100 · Wikipedia: Flora (Titian)
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