![]() He may have had a good reason to request a profile portrait, not just to imitate Roman imperial coin portraiture but to hide the fact that he may have been missing his right eye. The duke Federico da Montefeltro was a mercenary who used his wealth made with his armies as a hired soldier to enrich his court with artists and intellectuals in Urbino much like the Medici were doing in Florence. The question that has captivated viewers for centuries remains: who are these folks and why do they look so… well…odd. Painted somewhere between 1465-1475 these portraits currently hanging in Florence’s Uffizi Gallery are some of the most famous examples of Italian Renaissance portraiture. The Duke and Duchess of Urbino Artist: Piero della Francesca (1475) Where? Uffizi Gallery in Florence ![]() Scroll to see how Luca and Lauren compare to the original and let us know what you think in the comments! 1. We’ll be “releasing” them on our Instagram and Facebook pages first and then I’ll be uploading them here but in the meantime, I hope you enjoy the pieces from our 2020 collection (plus a new one at the end!) that highlight some of our favourite Italian art and, more importantly, will make you smile. One year later, as we’re watching delays in the vaccine roll out in Europe and our business remains in limbo, Luca and I put our heads together again to create some more “living art” pictures. While we never got a repost from them, we were proud to get mentioned in Forbes! Unknown to us, another instagram account in the Netherlands (I think?) started doing the same thing at the same time and it soon blew up into an internationally followed phenomenon, repeated by the Getty Museum and others. Unable to bring you to art, we decided to bring Italian art to you in a series of photos in which we recreated Italian masterpieces using only what we had in the house during lockdown! When I starting posting them on instagram and facebook we thought we’d just do a couple but the positive response was so overwhelming that we kept going. ![]() Last year, as Italy went into lockdown Luca and I realised our job as guides and the business we had been creating at Unlock Italy was going to be put on hold for much longer than any of us could have expected.
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