THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: THE CHIANTI TOUR -- GALLERIE 602 to 609 and 625 to 627

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The Chianti Tour (Galleries 602–609 and 625–627)

Illustration: Tiziano and Workshop (Italian, Pieve di Cadore ca. 1485–1576 Venice). Venus and the Lute Player, 1565. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Munsey Fund, 1936

A trip across central and north Italy, with Gothic and Renaissance art from Giotto in FIRENZE to Tiziano in VENEZIA.

Among the highlights are:

-- Giotto's meticulously staged Adoration of the Magi
-- Duccio's affective Madonna and Child
--- Botticelli's Last Communion of Saint Jerome.

Two galleries devoted to the secular arts in Florence and the relation of painting to sculpture.

Mantegna's Adoration of the Shepherds
-- Veronese's great canvas of Mars and Venus and
-- Lorenzo Lotto's saucy Cupid peeing on his mother.

Plus the only altarpiece by Raphael in America.