Among the most significant work of art of the Uffizi Museum, which includes, inter alia, the world's largest collection of paintings by Botticelli (Primavera, The Birth of Venus, The Adoration of the Magi), are masterpieces by Orcagna (Triptych of San Matteo), Piero Pollaiolo, Giotto (The Ognissanti Madonna, Badia Polyptych), Duccio of Buoninsegna, Cimabue, Masaccio, Taddeo Gaddi, Masolino, Leonardo da Vinci (Annunciation, Adoration of the Magi), Gentile da Fabriano (Adoration), Filippo Lippi, Paolo Uccello (Battle of San Romano), Beato Angelico, Michelangelo (Holy Family with St. John or Tondo Doni), Raphael (Madonna of the Goldfinch, Pope Leo X with Cardinals Giulio de' Medici and Luigi de' Rossi, portraits of the dukes of Urbino Elisabetta Gonzaga and Guidobaldo da Montefeltro), Caravaggio (Medusa), Piero della Francesca (Diptych of Duke Federico da Montefeltro and Duchess Battista Sforza of Urbino), Perugino, Tiziano (Venus of Urbino), Rubens, Rembrandt, Mantegna.
The origin of the building that houses the museum dates back to 1560, when Cosimo I de' Medici ordered to to Giorgio Vasari to planning a large building with two wings that would accommodate the offices (Uffizi) of the Florentine State. The first core of the gallery was created in 1581 by Francesco I de' Medici, son of Cosimo, on the top floor of the building, and were collected by the Medici collections in the fifteenth and sixteenth century, initially placed in the hall of the Forum and in adjacent rooms. The museum was regularly open to the public under the Lorena dynasty.
On the second floor of the gallery, at the premises derived from Mediceo Theater, is based the collection of drawings and prints, among the largest in the world, which includes about 120,000 works, dated from the end of the fourteenth century to the twentieth century, among them outstanding examples of all the great masters of Tuscany, from Leonardo to Michelangelo.
Type of objects: paintings, sculptures.
Important works: Works by Florentine school: paintings by Cimabue, Giotto, Masaccio, Paolo Uccello, Filippo Lippi, Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Pontormo, Rosso Fiorentino. Works by Italian school: paintings by Duccio di Boninsegna, Simone Martini, Pietro and Ambrogio Lorenzetti, Gentile da Fabriano, Piero della Francesca, Mantegna, Giovanni Bellini, Giorgione, Raphael, Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese, Caravaggio. Works by European school: paintings by Rogier van der Weyden, Hugo van der Goes, Albrecht Durer, El Greco, Rubens, Rembrandt, Claude Lorrain, Goya.
Address:
Loggiato degli Uffizi 6
Firenze
Tel: 055 294883
Opening Hours:
Tuesday to Sunday from 8.15-18.50, from July to September until 22.00. Closed Mondays, New Year, May 1st, Christmas.
Price: € 6.50; in the case of exhibitions € 8.50. Reduced 3.25 €. Free for schools (reservations required tel 055-290112), 3,00 € educational assistance to students.
Handicap access: YES
Exhibition area: 7000 sqm
Exhibition halls: 45 |
