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UFFIZI GALLERY

The greatest art collection in Italy and one of the most important in the world. Founded in 1580 since when it has had various layouts in the grand Uffizi Palace, erected by Vasari and completed by Buontalenti. Fundamental for the Tuscan schools of art from the 13C onwards, it includes works by Venetian, Roman, Emilian, Flemish, German, Spanish and French artists. There are masterpieces by Cimabue, Giotto (Madonna and Child, Angels and Saints), Simone Martini (Annunciation), Lorenzo Monaco, Gentile da Fabriano, Paolo Uccello, Masaccio, Masolino, Domenico Veneziano, Piero della Francesca (Montefeltro Dukes), Beato Angelico, Filippo Lippi, Pollaiolo, Botticelli (Birth of Venus, Springtime etc), Ghirlandaio, Leonardo (Adorazione dei Magi and Annunciation), Verrocchio, Signorelli, Perugino, Pontormo, Andrea del Sarto, Bronzino, Giambellino, Correggio, Mantegna, Luini, Moroni, Rosso Fiorentino, Michelangelo (Sacra Famiglia), Raffaello, (Madonna del Cardellino, Leone X, etc), Tiziano (Venere di Urbino and other paintings), Parmigianino, Lotto, Veronese, Tintoretto, Bassano, Rubens, van Dyck, Caravaggio, A Carracci, Rembrandt (Vecchio Rabbino and two self potraits), Guardi, Canaletto, Chardin, Nattier and Goya.

Of no less importance the classic and Hellenistic statues, which further demonstrate the Medici and Lorena passion for collections (Venere, Arrotino, the group Niobe and Niobidi). In addition: a theme collection of tapestries (XVI and XVII centuries), some antique marbles and illuminations. On the ground floor of the former S. Pietro Scheraggio's church, valuable frescoes are on display including a cycle of characters depicted by Andrea Del Castagno (c1450), and an Annunciation by Botticelli.

MEDICI CHAPELS

This monumental complex of the Medici Chapels comprises the Princes' Chapel, with its wonderful polychrome marble decoration, and the New Sacristy begun by Michelangelo (1512) and completed by Vasari and Ammannati. Here, Renaissance architecture and sculpture reached their artistic peak with the famous Medici tombs: the Sepulchre of Lorenzo, Duke of Urbino, with its sublime allegorical statues of the Thinker, Dawn and Dusk, and the Sepulchre of Giuliano, Duke of Nemours with the statue of the Duke, Day and Night. Close to a third tomb, which contains the relics of Lorenzo the Magnificent and his brother Giuliano, is the splendid Madonna with Child. Drawings by Michelangelo, discovered in 1975, and others are in display in a small room on the left of the apse.

PITTI PALACE
Appartamenti Monumentali

Built to the plans of Brunelleschi in the mid 15C on order of the Pitti Family; it was completed and enlarged during the following centuries. This grand palace was the home of the Medici, the Asburgo-Lorena and the Savoia whilst Florence was capital (1865-71). The courtyard by Ammannati (1570) is a masterpiece. The monumental apartments house luxurious furnishings, a splendid series of tapestries displaying Florentine and French workmanship, potraits, paintings, frescoes and stucco works.

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Galleria D'arte Moderna

The collection displays a vast array of 18C to 20C art, thanks to donations, acquisitions and bequests of big importance. You can admire Italian and French neo-classical works, romantic works by Hayez and other artists, naturalistic works by Fontanesi, Morelli, Palizzi, De Nittis etc; famous foreign names include Pissarro, Lenbach and Bocklin. The finest and most interesting section is dedicated to Macchiaioli (Fattori, Lega, Signorini, Boldini, Zandomeneghi, etc.) and those of post-Macchiaioli.

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Galleria Palatina

The Galleria Palatina is a fine art gallery which was superbly decorated by Pietro da Cortina, Ciro Ferri and 19C artists. It houses groups of works by the Italian, Spanish and Flemmish schools. Famous canvases by Raffaello (the Velata, the Madonna del Granduca, the Madonna della Seggiola, etc), Tiziano (Concerto, the Bella and others), Rubens, Velazquez and van Dyck. Moreover there are paintings by Andrea del Sarto, Dosso Dossi, Murillo, Tintoretto, Veronese, Bronzino, Perugino, Caravaggio, Giambellino, Frà Bartolomeo, Rosso Fiorentino, Moroni, L. Signorelli, Lippi, Botticelli, Pontormo, Dolci, Allori and others. Among the sculptures, the Venere Italica by Canova.

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Galleria Del Costume

In the Galleria del Costume, the first museum of its kind in Italy, fashion is culture. There is an array of clothes, uniforms, fabrics and accessories from the 18C to the early 19C. It is installed in the charming neo-classic summer apartments of the Meridian, which rooms display lavish 19C decoration with frescoes, stucco work and fine furnishings.

MUSEO DEL BARGELLO

Situated in the medieval Podestà (or Bargello) Palace, this museum is fundamental for its array of 14C-17C Tuscan sculptures and for several magnificent collections of minor art, which are also the result of donations and legacies. Weapons, glazed terra-cotta (some by della Robbia), fabric, furniture, seals, jewellery, coats-of-arms bronzes, majolica.

But here you can admire masterpieces by Michelangelo, Sansovino, B. Cellini, Tino di Camaino, Ammannati, Giambologna, Donatello (two David, etc.), Brunelleschi and Ghiberti (2 sample panels which were prepared for the Baptistery Door competition in 1402), Michelozzo, Desiderio da Settignano, Luca and Andrea della Robbia, Agostino di Duccio, Bernini, Verrocchio, Pollaiolo (Ercole and Anteo) and others.

ACADEMY

Founded in 1874 by Duke Pietro Leopaldo, the gallery is known for a group of sublime sculptures by Michelangelo: Pietà di Palestrina, the Prisoners, St Matthew and David. It also houses paintings from the XIII to XIX centuries, tapestries displaying Florentine and Bruxelle workmanship and plaster figures, works by Lorenzo Monaco, Daddi, Gaddi, Lippi, Perugino, Baldovinetti, Botticelli, Orcagna, Giovanni da Milano. Moreover XIX century documents from the Florentine Academy.

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