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The Uffizi
Piazzale degli Uffizi 6 - Florence
Tel. +39 055 2388-651/652
Fax +39 055 2388-699
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Ask anyone to name an Art Gallery/Museum in Italy and it is likely that the name "Uffizi" will spring to most people's lips. The Uffizi Palace is one of the most loved monuments of Florence and an architectural work of great importance, that shelters masterpieces of inestimable value by famous artists such as Botticelli, Uccello, Caravaggio, and Leonardo da Vinci, it is now without doubt one of Europe's leading galleries. Notable works of art include Botticelli's Birth of Venus.
Comissioned by Cosimo de Medici (Cosimo I) the first Grand Duke of Tuscany, The Palace of the Uffizi was designed in 1559 and only took its architect Giorgio Vasari five years (1560-65) to build. In order to realize the project, Vasari had some of the buildings surrounding the area demolished.
The Uffizi is constructed in the shape of a horse-shoe and the Uffizi buildings stretch from Piazza Signoria to the River Arno and are connected to Palazzo Vecchio by a passageway above Via della Ninna by the Vasari Corridor consisting of a covered passage, about half a mile long, forming a link over the river Arno between the Palazzo Vecchio and the Pitti Palace |
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Accademia Gallery
Via Ricasoli 60 - Florence
Tel. +39 055 2388-609/612
Fax +39 055 2388-609 |
The Accademia del Disegno was founded in 1563 by Vasari, Bronzino and Ammannati and was the first school established in Europe specifically to teach the techniques of drawing, painting and sculpture.The gallery became the focus of more attention in 1873 when Michelangelo's David was exhibited there for the first time in a specially constructed tribune designed specifically by architect De Fabris. Several other masterpieces by Michelangelo including The Prisoners are housed here.
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Borghese Gallery
Piazzale del Museo Borghese, 5
00197 ROME
Tel. + 39 06 8413979 |
The most beautiful residence of Rome was built in 1613 by the Cardinal Scipione Borghese who employed two great architects of the time Flaminio Ponzio and Vasanzio. It was intended to be both a splendid venue for summer parties and also a home for Cardinal Scipione Borghese's lavish collection of paintings and statues. Some of the original collection's works of art were later swapped for a property in northern Italy and these pieces are now displayed in the Musée Louvre in Paris. The great treasures of the Borghese Gallery are the works of Raphael, Titian, Correggio, some fine Caravaggio's; among the impressive sculptures; the young Bernini's "David" and "Apollo and Daphne" .
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