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Italy's most famous museum, the Uffizi in Florence, houses a spectacular collection of Renaissance art as well as works by later masters. In the sixteenth century the wealthy and powerful Medici family began amassing fine art and displaying it in the Uffizi, their showplace palace in the heart of Florence.
Ruling Tuscany for another two centuries, the family continually enriched its holdings with works by the best European artists of the time, many of them commissioned or acquired from the artists themselves. When the collection was donated to the city of Florence in 1737, it was, in essence, given to the people, and this ensured that the collection would remain intact in its original building.
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In this skillful and dazzling selection of paintings from the Galleria degli Uffizi are the greatest works by the early Renaissance artists - Giotto, Piero della Francesca, Mantegna, Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael - and by the later Italians such as Caravaggio, Tiepolo, and Canaletto. Artists from throughout Europe are also well represented, among them Durer, El Greco, Rubens, Velazquez, Rembrandt, Boucher, and Goya, and the collection includes some of the best-known paintings in the world.
This book presents the best of them for a tour of one of history's pre-eminent public art collections.
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Catalogs, Galleria degli Uffizi, PaintingShowing 2 featured editions. View all 2 editions?
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Treasures of the Uffizi Florence
1996, Abbeville Press
in English
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0789202344 9780789202345
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Treasures of the Uffizi, Florence.
1994, Abbeville Press
in English
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1558595597 9781558595590
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