Museums in FLORENCE
Italian Museums
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UFFIZI GALLERY
Hotels UFFIZI GALLERY
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FLORENCE Loggiato degli Uffizi, 6 |
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Open: 8.15-18.50; Sundays and public holidays 8.15-18.50. Closed on Monday. Description: The most important art collection in Italy and one of the finest in the world. Founded in 1580 since when it has had various layouts in the grand Uffizi Palace, erected by Vasari and completed by Buontalenti. Fundamental for the Tuscan schools of art from the 13C onwards, it includes works by Venetian, Roman, Emilian, Flemish, German, Spanish and French artists. On display masterpieces by Cimabue, Duccio ("Madonna Rucellai"), Giotto ("Madonna and 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 ("Montefeltro Dukes"), Angelico, Filippo Lippi, Baldovinetti, A. and P. Pollaiolo, Botticelli ("Birth of Venus", "Springtime" etc), L. di Credi, Ghirlandaio, Rogier van der Weyden, Hugo van der Goes ("Trittico Portinari"), Leonardo ("Adorazione dei Magi" and "Annunciation"), Verruchio, Signorelli, Perugino, Berruguete, Pontormo, A. del Sarto, Bronzino, Melozzo da Forlì, Durer, Canach, Giambellino, Holbein, Altdorfer, David, Correggio, Mantegna, Luini, Moroni, Rosso Fiorentino, Michelangelo ("Sacra Famiglia"), Raffaello, ("Madonna del Cardellino", Leone X", etc), Tiziano ("Venere di Urbino" and other paintings), Parmigianino, Lotto, Veronese, Tintoretto, Bassano, El Greco, Rubens, van Dyck, Cravaggio, A Carracci, Rembrandt ("Vecchio Rabbino and two self potraits), Ruysdael, Guardi, Canaletto, Chardin, Nattier and Goya. Of no less importance the classic and Hellenistic statues, which further demonstrate the Medici and Lorena passion for collections ("Venere", "Arrotino", the group "Niobe and Niobidi"). In addition: a theme collection of tapestries (XVI and XVII centuries), some antique marbles and illuminations. On the ground floor of the former S. Pietro Scheraggio's church, valuable frescoes are on display including a cycle of characters depicted by A.del Castagno (c1450), and an "Annuciation" by Botticelli. |
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