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Uffizi Gallery, Florence Travel Guide

Travel to Uffizi Gallery, Florence - Stunning Art Collection

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The most important art collection in Italy and one of the richest in the world. Started in 1580 by Vasari and completed by Buontalenti it contains much of the fundamental production of Tuscan artistic schools from the 13th century onward, as well as works by Venetian, Roman, Emilian, German, Flemish, Spanish and French painters. A stunning art collection.

The work of the architect Vasari can be seen all over Florence. Along with the famous Corridor built for the Medicis above the Ponte Vecchio Vasari also designed the city's most impressive museum, the Uffizi Gallery, the Galleria degli Uffizi in Italian.

Cosimo I de' Medici gave the order for its construction in the 16th century, ostensibly to house the offices of Florence's magistrates, the museum is now home to the largest collection of Italian and Florentine Renaissance art in the world.

The interior is split into a series of rooms, grouped by school or artistic period in a way as to showcase the advancement art though the ages. It is essential to book your ticket in advance as this is one f the city’s top attractions. Don’t miss the views from the upper floor gallery over Florence to the Duomo.

Attractions in Uffizi Gallery, Florence

Masterpieces by Giotto ("Madonna with the Holy Child, Angels and Saints"), Piero della Francesca ("The Dukes of Montefeltro"), Botticelli, ("Birth of Venus", "Primavera", etc), Leonardo da Vinci ("Adoration of the Magi", "Annunciation"), Michelangelo ("Holy Family"), Raphael ("Madonna of the Finch", "Pope Leo X", etc) and Rembrandt, ("Old Rabbi" and two self-portraits) amongst countless others can be seen.

Also important are the Classical and Hellenistic statues, witness to the collecting passion of the Medicis and the Lorenas. Collections of tapestries (16th and 17th c.), ancient marbles and miniatures can be seen and on the ground floor, in the premises of the former church of San Pietro Scheraggio, valuable frescoes, including the series of the celebrities by A. del Castagno (around 1450), and "Annunciation" by Botticelli.