What sorts of secondary imagery or iconography do you want to be included?

You are to curate an exhibition of Renaissance art. Imagine that you live in a Renaissance palace around the year 1550. You have a large reception room on the piano nobile that needs to be filled with art. Choose four works from the Renaissance that you think would be ideal for your palace and then give a guided tour of the room, describing the works and discussing their arrangement. It’s important that you have a variety of works (by different artists, of different subjects) and you explain the principles that the chosen artworks illustrate—why do they especially appeal to you?To help you narrow it down, you should choose four Italian Renaissance works from one of the following four museums (each of which has an enormous collection of them):•The Uffizi, Florence: https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/uffizi-gallery•The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC: https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/the-metropolitan-museum-of-art•The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC: https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/national-gallery-of-art-washington-dc•The National Gallery, London: https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/the-national-gallery-londonYou are welcome to choose works of sculpture, but don’t use prints or drawings—those weren’t usually displayed on gallery walls the way that paintings or large works of sculpture were.To fill out the room’s decoration for a fifth work of art, you are to commission a Renaissance artist to paint your portrait. What artist do you choose? What does your portrait look like? What sorts of secondary imagery or iconography do you want to be included? In all these chosen images, you want not only to name the works chosen but describe and analyze them to your visitor, giving a sense of what they are as well as what they mean to you.

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