Uffizi Museum

If you are an avid traveller, this Uffizi information article will be most beneficial for your next tour.

Uffizi Gallery, a museum of artworks in Florence possess the greatest collection of painting of the Italian Renaissance, especially belonging to the Florentine School. It possesses drawings, prints, sculptures and antiques. In the year 1559, Cosimo de Medici, Tuscany’s grand duke entrusted the architect and painter Giorgio Vasari to make an idea for architecture for the government judiciary.

The main reason behind the construction of the building was to provide enough space for all the agencies and departments required for running Florence City. The Uffizi Gallery holds the first as well as the second floor of the large and big building and was built between the years 1560- 1580 with a design by Giorgio Vasari. 

The Uffizi Gallery is famous for its amazing collection of paintings and sculptures belonging to the Middle Ages and the modern age. The housing of masterpieces from the Renaissance period and the 14th- century include the artworks by Caravaggio, Michelangelo, Raffaello, Leonardo, Correggio, Mantegna, Botticelli, Filippo Lippi, Beato Angelico, Pier Della Francesca, Simone Martini and Giotto. 

The Uffizi information also contains one important fact it has a precious collection of busts belonging to the Medici family and ancient statues which furnish the corridors and it comprises Roman copies belonging to the Greek sculptures.

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