The Uffizi Gallery in Florence is one of the most important Italian museums, and one of the largest and most famous in the world.
The building houses a superb collection of priceless works of art from the collections of the Medici, enriched over the centuries by donations and exchanges.
Divided into different rooms in schools and styles in chronological order, the exhibition shows works from the twelfth to the eighteenth century, with the best collection in the world of Renaissance works.
Inside are hosted some of the greatest masterpieces of mankind, by artists ranging from Cimabue to Caravaggio, Giotto, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Mantegna, Titian, Parmigianino, Dürer Rubens, Rembrandt, Canaletto etc … Without equal is the collection of works by Sandro Botticelli.
The construction of the building of the Galleria degli Uffizi began in 1560 when the Duke Cosimo I wanted to bring together the 13 most important Florentine magistrates, called Uffici.
The work was entrusted to Giorgio Vasari.