1. Contemporary portrait of Savonarola by his friend Fra Bartolomeo
2a. Portrait bust of Lorenzo de’ Medici, probably after a contemporary model, suggesting his powerful and charismatic character
2b. Portrait of Lorenzo de’ Medici’s eldest son, Piero (known as ‘Piero the Unfortunate’), who succeeded his father as ruler of Florence
3. A view of early Renaissance Florence, looking eastwards up the Arno Valley.
The prominent domed building in the centre of the picture is Florence Cathedral (the Duomo). To the right of this can be distinguished the Palazzo della Signoria, the tip of whose tower can be seen against the distant city wall.
4a. Rodrigo Borgia, who became Pope Alexander VI
4b. Charles VIII, the young king of France
5a. The philosopher Pico della Mirandola
5b. The poet Angelo Poliziano
5c. A somewhat flattering portrait of the Platonist and translator Marsilio Ficino
6a. Savonarola preaching
6b. Self-portrait of Sandro Botticelli in his prime
7. The Birth of Venus by Botticelli
8. One of Botticelli’s late troubled images of Dante’s Inferno