We highly recommend choosing this guided tour inside the Uffizi Galleries.
Given the number of works on display, the variety of periods represented, and their historical and artistic value, an AGT guide could be helpful to fully appreciate this priceless treasure.
The 16th-century Uffizi building houses one of the most important painting collections in the world.
The Gallery, designed by the most important architect of the 16th century, Giorgio Vasari, was commissioned by Grand Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici as the seat of the main administrative offices of the Tuscan state.
Visiting it is like leafing through a book of art history: it’s thrilling to explore the evolution of Italian painting from the 13th to the 17th century while standing before world-famous masterpieces.
It begins with Cimabue, Duccio di Buoninsegna, and Giotto, then moves into the Renaissance with Masaccio, Filippo Lippi, Piero della Francesca, Botticelli, and the founders of the “modern manner”: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Tiziano, concluding with the great Caravaggio.
The expansion of the exhibition spaces has made it possible to create a section dedicated to foreign painters, including Rubens and Rembrandt.
No less important in the panorama of Italian art is the collection of statuary and busts from antiquity belonging to the Medici family. This collection adorns the Gallery’s corridors and includes ancient Roman sculptures, which are often copies of lost Greek originals.
The Uffizi Galleries periodically host temporary exhibitions that highlight artworks often kept in storage, as well as pieces on loan from many parts of the world.
