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Updated: July 24, 2025
Only Rubens could have painted these spirited, impossible, glorious things, which for all their greatness send one's thoughts back longingly to the portrait of his wife, in the Tribuna, while No. 216 the Bacchanale is so coarse as almost to send one's feet there too. Looking round the room, after Rubens has been dismissed, it is too evident that the best of the Uffizi collection is behind us.
His pupil Raphael, that most beloved name, is represented here in the Uffizi only by the Madonna del Cardellino ; for the other works attributed to him in the Tribuna are not his. The picture is in his early manner, and was painted about 1548.
Her daily Tribuna, which the postman brought her, had in fact contained that morning a letter describing the burial after three months! of the remains of the army slain in the carnage of Adowa on March 1.
There are interesting portraits here, but biographically rather than artistically. This silly, plump lady had been married at the age of fourteen, and she brought her husband a little money and many pictures from Urbino, notably those delightful portraits of an earlier Duke and Duchess of Urbino by Piero della Francesca, and also the two Titian "Venuses" in the Tribuna.
This is a waste space of grass and a few trees, and here the children play, and here, recently, a football ground or campo di giuoco has been laid out, with a galvanized iron and pitch-pine shed called splendidly the Tribuna. One afternoon I watched a match there between those ancient enemies Venice and Genoa: ancient, that is, on the sea, as Chioggia can tell.
The Galileo by Sustermans No. 163 on the contrary would be from life; and after the Tribuna portrait of Rubens' first wife it is interesting to find here his pleasant portrait of Helen Fourment, his second. I like also the hints of tenderness of Bernardino Luini which break through the hardness of the Aurelio Luini picture No. 204.
In the royal apartments, among other interesting or beautiful things, is Botticelli's Pallas and the Centaur, painted, as some have thought, to celebrate Lorenzo's return from Naples in 1480. It is, then, rather as a royal gallery than as a museum that we must consider the Galleria Palatina, a more splendid if less catholic Salon Carré, the Tribuna of Italian painting.
Madame brought in yesterday's Tribuna, and they found an illustrated catalogue of hotels in Dresden. Oh, that three hours and a half!
The Venus with the Organ Player of Madrid, which in many essential points is an inferior repetition of the later Venus of the Tribuna, contains the portrait of Ottavio Farnese, much as we see him in the unfinished group painted, as has been recorded, at Rome in 1546.
Here, in the Uffizi, however, we have four of his best works the three great portraits, Francesco delle Opere , Alessandro Braccesi , and the Portrait of a Lady , long given to Raphael, but which Mr. Berenson assures us is Perugino's; and the Madonna and Child of the Tribuna, painted in 1493.
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