Uffizi Gallery and Renaissance Masterpieces
The Renaissance was born in Italy, in Florence, and the collection of Renaissance paintings in the Uffizi Gallery is one of the most important in the world. The Uffizi Gallery is the third most visited museum in Italy, welcoming visitors from all over the world. Many tourists come halfway around the world to visit at least this gem.
During this tour, we will consider some of the most important masterpieces in this museum. The Uffizi Gallery is probably the only museum that hosts many works realized by artists who lived and worked not far at all from where we now see them.
The eyes and hands of those artists found inspiration for their works in the same buildings, streets, and sky that you can still look at today when you are in Florence. Before entering a place like the Uffizi Gallery, it is also important to talk about who needed this new building in Florence, why someone wanted it, and who built it, since the Uffizi was not originally born to be a museum.
In other words, we will also learn more about the Medici family. Some of the artists whose works we will see during the tour include Giotto, Simone Martini, Gentile da Fabriano, Masaccio, Filippo Lippi, Filippino Lippi, Piero Della Francesca, Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian, Bronzino, and Vasari.
