Florence Attractions
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The Uffizi (Gallerie degli Uffizi)
The Uffizi is one of the world's greatest art galleries with a
collection of Renaissance paintings that include the works of
Giotto, Masaccio, Paolo Ucello, Sandro Botticelli, Leonardo da
Vinci, Michelangelo, Titian and Caravaggio. The collection is
housed on the top floor of a building designed as the offices
(uffizi) of the Medici, commissioned by Duke Cosimo I. From 1581,
Cosimo's heirs used the upper storey to display the Medici art
treasures. Ancient Greek and Roman sculptures line the inner
corridors of the gallery and a series of rooms jut off from here,
showcasing the chronological development of Florentine art from
Gothic to High Renaissance and beyond. The scale and magnitude of
the collection may need to be enjoyed over two visits. Rooms 1-15
(Florentine Renaissance) could be explored more thoroughly on the
first trip and on the next visit one could concentrate on rooms 16
to 45 (from High Renaissance to later Italian and European
painting).
Address: Loggiato degli Uffizi 6;
E-mail: direzione.uffizi@tin.it;
Website: www.polomuseale.firenze.it/english/musei/uffizi;
Telephone: (055) 238 8651;
Opening time: Tuesday to Sunday 8.15am to 6.50pm. Closed on Mondays, 1 January, 1 May and 25 December;
Admission: €6.50, concessions available
