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| Florence Museums - Uffizi Gallery - David Michelangelo |  |
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The Museums of Florence
own and display around three hundred thousand works of art and
exhibits dating from prehistory to the 20th century, although
the jewels of the collections belong to the Florentine
Renaissance, possibly the most dazzling artistic period
of Western culture. Every year over four million visitors
from all over the world come to visit these masterpieces
of architecture, sculpture, painting, minor arts and crafts. |
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The Uffizi Gallery covers an area of about 8.000 sq.m.. and contains one of the most important collections of art of all times, including classical sculpture and paintings on canvas and wood by 13th to 18th century Italian and foreign schools. The Gallery of the Uffizi was also the first museum ever to be opened to the public: in fact the Grand Duke granted permission to visit it on request from the year 1591... [more info] |
| Academy of Fine Arts of Florence | |
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The museum is situated in Via Ricasoli, no.60, just past the Academy of Fine Arts. Pietro Leopoldo, one of the most illuminated of the Lorraine Grand Dukes, commissioned this museum in 1784 by decreeing that all the schools of drawing in Florence were to be united into a single Academy (keeping to the same name and Statute... [more info] |
| The Bargello Museum | |
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the Tuscan Renaissance. In the large fourteenth century hall on the first floor are found some of the finest works of Donatello (1386-1466) such as the marble Youthful David, the St. George from its niche in Orsanmichele and the later, and more ambiguous, David in bronze. All are works in which the linear and decorative tendencies... [more info] |
| The Palatine Gallery - Apartments Pitti Palace | |
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The Palatine Gallery is the last, but the most beautiful of the princely picture-galleries. This gallery includes extraordinary masterpieces of the 16th and 17th centuries. The collection includes the work of Italian, Flemish, French and English artists, including Raffaello (with 11 famous works), the Florentine School... [more info] |
| Silvers Museums - Pitti Palace | |
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The museum takes its name from the collection of silver coming from Salzburg, which was taken to Pitti Palace by the Grand-Duke Ferdinando III of Lorena. This collection of silver, which has been exhibited in the big hall on the ground floor since the second half of the 19th Century, together with some porcelains, jewelry of the last heiress. [more info] |