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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 Uffizi Gallery occupies the top floor of the large building erected by Giorgio Vasari between 1560 and 1580 to house the administrative offices of the Tuscan State. The Gallery was created by Grand-duke Francesco I and subsequently enriched by various members of the Medici family, who were great collectors of paintings, sculpture and works of art. The collection was rearranged and enlarged by the Lorraine Grand-dukes, who succeeded the Medici, and finally by the Italian State. The Uffizi buildings also house other important collections: the Contini Bonacossi Collection and the Collection of Prints and Drawings (Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe degli Uffizi). The Vasari Corridor, the raised passageway connecting the Uffizi with the Pitti Palace, was built by Vasari in 1565. It is hung with an important collection of 17th-century paintings and the famous collection of artists' Self-portraits.

Collections
Here is only a small selection from the world-class collection of paintings:
Cimabue (Maestà)
Duccio (Maestà)
Giotto (The Ognissanti Madonna, Badia Polyptych)
Simone Martini (The Annunciation)
Paolo Uccello (The Battle of San Romano)
Piero della Francesca (Diptych of Duke Federico da Montefeltro and Duchess Battista Sforza of Urbino)
Fra Filippo Lippi (Madonna with Child and Two Angels)
Andrea del Verrocchio (The Baptism of Christ)
Hugo van der Goes (The Portinari Triptych)
Sandro Botticelli (Primavera, The Birth of Venus, The Adoration of the Magi and others)
Leonardo da Vinci (The Annunciation, The Adoration of the Magi)
Piero di Cosimo (Perseus liberating Andromeda)
Albrecht Dürer (The Adoration of the Magi)
Michelangelo (The Doni Tondo)
Raphael (Madonna of the Goldfinch, Pope Leo X with Cardinals Giulio de' Medici and Luigi de' Rossi)
Titian (Flora, Venus of Urbino)
Parmigianino (The Madonna of the Long Neck)
Caravaggio (Bacchus, The Sacrifice of Isaac, Medusa)
Artemisia Gentileschi (Judith and Holofernes)
Rembrandt Van Rijn (The selfportrait as a young man,selfportrait as an old man,portrait of an old man)

Information
Uffizi Gallery
Piazzale degli Uffizi, 6
Tel. +39 055 2388-651/652
Fax +39 055 2388-694
E-mail: direzione.uffizi@polomuseale.firenze.it
opening Hours
Tuesday - Sunday: 8.15 - 18.50

Raphael self portrait

Raphael Portrait of Pope Julius II-Raffael

Raphael Portrait of Elisabetta Gonzaga

Raphael Madonna del cardellino

Piero della Francesca

Paolo Uccello The Battle of San Romano, 1456

Michelangelo Tondo Doni

Fra Filippo Lippi Madonna con due angeli

Detail of The Birth of Venus (Botticelli) by Botticelli

Ceiling frescos in the main corridor-UffiziCeiling

Caravaggio Medusa

Caravaggio Bacchus

Botticelli La Primavera, c. 1478

View of hallway Uffizi Hallway

Titian Venus of Urbino

Titian Flora (mythology), 1515-1520

The narrow courtyard, showing view toward the Arno Rive

The narrow courtyard between the Uffizi's two wings creates the effect of a short, idealized street Uffizi Gallery,Florence

Simone Martini Annunciation

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