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| Museums of Italy |
| The Uffizi Gallery - Galleria degli Uffizi |
| Loggiato degli Uffizi, 6 - Florence |
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Opening Hours: Tuesday-Sunday 8:15am -
7:00pm
Closing days: every Monday, January 1, May 1, December 25.
Services: cloack room, bar, bookshop.
Official Web Site: www.uffizi.firenze.it
Notes:
Visits to the Vasarian Corridor are possible for groups of minimum 10 people.
Request, indicating date and time, must be faxed to: 011-39-055-264406 |
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| 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. |
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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. |
The Uffizi Façade overlooking the Arno |
Also very important are the classical and hellenistic statues, witnessing the collectioning
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. |
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