Uffizi (Florence)

 palace, art museum / art gallery

Piazzale degli Uffizi, 6
50122 Firenze FI, Italy
www.uffizi.it/en/the-uffizi

This is one of the most famous museums of paintings and sculpture in the world. Its collection of Primitive and Renaissance paintings comprises several universally acclaimed masterpieces of all time, including works by Giotto, Simone Martini, Piero della Francesca, Fra Angelico, Filippo Lippi, Botticelli, Mantegna, Correggio, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo and Caravaggio. German, Dutch and Flemish masters are also well represented with important works by Dürer, Rembrandt and Rubens.

The building that is now seat of the Gallery was built in the mid-sixteenth century by the architect Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) in a period when Cosimo I de` Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, was bureaucratically consolidating this recently acquired position ... www.florenceholidays.com/florence-vacation-museums-uffi...