Tour one of the most important Italian museums and the most visited after the Vatican Museums. Galleria delgi Uffizi was initially intended to be an office space for the Florentine magistrates, hence the name of the Gallery (Uffizi is “offices” in Italian).
EXPLORE PRICESLESS ARTWORKS
The 16th century palace that officially became a museum in 1865, Uffizi Gallery is one of the first modern museums with an art collection gifted to the city of Florence by the Medici family and some priceless works of art from the Italian Renaissance period.
BOTTICELLI’S THE BIRTH OF VENUS
Witness masterpieces of the Early Renaissance painter made famous for his mythological subjects, Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus, Primavera and Adoration of the Magi of 1475.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Arguably one of the most gifted people that ever existed, Da Vinci also has two great works that can be found in the Uffizi Gallery: Leonardo’s Annunciation and the Adoration of the Magi.
THE OTHER RENAISSANCE MASTERS
Admire paintings from two other High Renaissance masters– Michelangelo’s The Holy Family (Doni Tondo) and Raphael’s Madonna of the Goldfinch and Portrait of Leo X.
MEDIVAL ARTISTS
Discover beautiful tempera panel paintings by Italian late medieval artist Giotto: Ognissanti Madonna (Madonna Enthroned) and Badi Polyptych.
WITNESS KEY WORKS OF ART
Other Uffizi Gallery artworks include Caravaggio’s Bacchus, Sacrifice of Isaac and Medusa, Artemisia Gentileschi’s Judith and Holofernes, and Rembrandt’s Self-Portrait of a Young Man.