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Galleria degli Uffizi - Photo (c)
Tom Rees
Florence - Galleria degli Uffizi
The most important art
collection in Italy, and one of the richest in the world, was started in
1580. Since the beginning it was arranged (with many changes along the
way) in the majestic Uffizi Palace, erected by Vasari and completed by
Buontalenti.
It contains much of the fundamental production of Tuscan artistic
schools from the 13th c. onward, as well as works by Venetian, Roman,
Emilian, German, Flemish, Spanish and French painters.
Masterpieces by Cimabue,
Duccio ("Madonna Rucellai"), Giotto ("Madonna with the Holy Child,
Angels and Saints"), Simone Martini ("Annunciation"), Daddi, Gaddi,
Orcagna, Lorenzo Monaco, Gentile da Fabriano, Paolo Uccello, Masaccio
and Masolino, Domenico Veneziano, Piero della Francesca ("The Dukes of
Montefeltro"), Angelico, Filippo Lippi, Baldovinetti, A. and P.
Pollaiolo, Botticelli, ("Birth of Venus", "Primavera", etc), L. di Credi,
Ghirlandaio, Rogier van der Weyden, Hugo van der Goes (Portinari
Tryptych), Leonardo ("Adoration of the Magi", "Annunciation"),
Verrocchio, Signorelli, Perugino, Berruguete, Pontormo, A. del Sarto,
Bronzino, Melozzo da Forli, Durer, Cranach, Giambellino, Holbein,
Altdorfer, David, Correggio, Mantegna, Luini, Moroni, Rosso Fiorentino,
Michelangelo ("Holy Family"), Raphael ("Madonna of the Finch", "Pope Leo
X", etc), Titian ("Venus of Urbino" and other paintings), Parmigianino,
Lotto, Veronese, Tintoretto, Bassano, El Greco, Rubens, van Dyck,
Caravaggio, A. Carracci, Rembrandt, ("Old Rabbi" and two
self-portraits), Ruysdael, Guardi, Canaletto, Chardin, Nattier and Goya.
Also very
important are the classical and Hellenic statues, witnessing
the collecting passion of the Medicis and the Lorenas
("Venus", "Knife-grinder", the group "Niobe and the Niobides").
Collections of tapestries (16th and 17th c.), ancient marbles
and miniatures. On the ground floor, in the premises of the
former church of S. Pietro Scheraggio, valuable frescoes,
including the series of the celebrities by A. del Castagno
(around 1450), and "Annunciation" by Botticelli.
Galleria degli Uffizi Official Site
Courtesy of
Italian Tourist Office USA
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