Galleria degli Uffizi (Uffizi Art Gallery) is the most
important art collection in Italy and is located in Vasari’s majestic
Uffizi Palace, next to Piazza della Signoria and close to
Ponte Vecchio, in Florence city center.
The Uffizi Gallery
exhibits in chronological order artworks from the 12th to the 18th
Century. Along the corridors are placed Roman sculptures, sarcophaguses
and Greek statue replicas. Here is a list of the most important
and admired masterpieces:
- First Room houses some archelogical Roman finds
- Room 2 preserves three altarpieces portraying the"
Madonna", the first one is Madonna in Trono (Enthroned Madonna) by Cimabue; then
Madonna Rucellai by Duccio di Buoninsegna and
Madonna di
Ognissanti by Giotto.
- Room 3 : 13th C Sienese school with works by Simone Martini (
Annunciation), Pietro
Lorenzetti (Madonna and Child with two Angels) and
Ambrogio Lorenzetti.
- Room4 is dedicated to the 14 th C Florentine picture with works by
Orcagna, Taddeo Gaddi and Giottino
- Room 5 and 6: Gentile da Fabriano and
Lorenzo Monaco
- Room 7 displays works from early Renaissance painters:
Masolino;
Masaccio, Paolo Uccello,
Beato Angelico; Piero della Francesca.
- Room 8 with wortks by
Filippo Lippi,
Piero della Francesca
and Filippino
Lippi
- Room 9 preserves art works by
Pollaiolo and
Botticelli.
- Room 10 and 14 are dedicated to
Botticelli whose worldwide famous
works are worthy of a visit:
Nascita di Venere (Birth of Venus);
La
Primavera (The Spring);
Adorazione dei Magi (Adoration of the Magi);
Madonna del Magnificat;
Madonna della Melagrana (Madonna of Pomegranate)
- Room 15 houses paintings by
Leonardo da
Vinci, Verrocchio,
Perugino and
Luca Signorelli.
- Room 19 Signorelli
- Room 20 with works by
Durer
- Room 21 G.
Bellini and Giorgione
- Room 23 Mantegna and
Correggio
- Room 25 with
Michelangelo and
Fra Bartolomeo.
- Room 26
Raphael and
Andrea del
Sarto
- Room 27 Pontormo,
Rosso Fiorentino,
Bronzino.
- Room 28 with works by Tiziano (Titian)
- Room 29 Parmigianino
- Room 31 Veronese
- Room 32 Tintoretto
- Room 34 Lotto and Savoldo
- Room 35 exposes pictures by Barocci
- Room 41 Rubens
- Room 41 Rembrandt
and the Flemish
At the beginning of the 3rd corridor you can have easy access to the
Corridoio Vasariano (Vasari Corridor) displaying a nice collection
of self-portrays.
Other works by Agnolo Gaddi,
Andrea del Castagno,
Beccafumi,
Ghirlandaio,
Goya,
Lorenzo di Credi,
Sellaio,
Jacopo Bassano,
Van Dick,
Vasari,
Veneziano, and many
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