Florence timeless : Uffizi Gallery
Among the main museums in Florence and Tuscany, the Uffizi Gallery is a place that certainly needs no introduction thanks to its popularity and international salience.
The collection of works of art belonging to different historical and cultural currents is inestimable and hails from a priceless collection that range in the centuries.
Especially involving major Italian artists such as Caravaggio, Michelangelo, Raffaello, Botticelli and Parmigianino.
The popularity of the Uffizi is due to the influence of the noble house of the Medici.
Especially to Cosimo I, who wanted to celebrate his lordship through the construction of an abode where the offices of the most important magistrates of the era should be located, able to protect the different arts in vogue in Florence, formed mostly by merchants, traders in general and especially legal professions.
The Uffizi have experienced a substantial contribution of works of art in the nineteenth century, thanks to the addition of marble statues of Bartolini, Santarelli and Dupré, putting all in the Doric structure always appreciated by the Duke of the Medici, presenting also a structure of two bodies connected on the south side, creating the typical form of a “U” of the galleries.
Among the main exhibits we can mention the archaeological rooms.
Recent construction (XX century), which displays mainly Roman works.
Including the Ara Pacis and different decorations, along with the medieval rooms, in which the thirteenth-century painting is the main theme, and the Renaissance rooms, in which works by Beato Angelico, Masaccio.
The plays of perspective and shadows are one of the main reasons why, even today, academics and tourists from all over the world are passionate about the Uffizi as a preferential historical and artistic center of the whole Tuscany and probably Italy.
Here is the link of the museum