Dedicated to early Renaissance. On the left wall the famous Battle of San Romolo by Paolo Uccello (1456). It is the central part of a series of paintings, one of which is in the Louvre, and the other in the National Gallery of London. The artist, in his tense perspective study, here faces the typical Renaissance problems of foreshortenings, crystallizing figures, lanscapes, horses, armor and arms in immobile volumes.
On the easel, the famous Portraits of Federico da Montefeltro Duke of Urbino and his Wife Battista Sforza by Piero della Francesca (1456-66). On the back, the Triumphs of the Duke and Duchess. He represents the subjects on marble terraces against a midday sun that hits the distant landscape. A creation rendered with an extremely poetic geometric abstraction, exalted in the fullness of the light, against a vast lanscape. Here the Flemish suggestions are surpassed in a completely new synthetic vision. With the inheritance of Vittoria della Rovere, wife of Ferdinand II Medici, the work passed over to the Uffizi in 1631, together with other art treasures.
On the opposite wall, St. Anne Enthroned with the Madonna and Child, work done in collaboration by Masolino and Masaccio, who shows a style already full and mature, despite his young age. On the right, Madonna Enthroned with Saints (1445), by Domenico Veneziano, formerly in the church of St. Lucia de' Mongoli, a work which vibrates with the color rendered luminous by the daylight that covens the spaces and palpitates in the figures painted with intense humanity. On the next wall, Madonna and Child, by Beato Angelico, Coronation of the Virgin, also by Beato Angelico, which can be admiredin all its magnificence only in Florence in the Convent of St. Mark. In both these works Beato Angelico succeeded in unting miniaturistic detail with the monumentality of the composition, already in full Reinassance style.
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