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Visitors observing Michelangelo’s Doni Tondo.Uffizi is ranked as the 5th most visited art museum in the world, with around five million visitors annually.. The building of the Uffizi complex was begun by Giorgio Vasari in 1560 for Cosimo I de' Medici as a means to consolidate his administrative control of the various committees, agencies, and guilds established in Florence's Republican past ...
Tribuna degli Uffizi. The Tribuna of the Uffizi is an octagonal exhibition hall in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy.Designed by Bernardo Buontalenti for Francesco I de' Medici in 1584, the most important antiquities and High Renaissance and Bolognese paintings from the Medici collection were and still are displayed here. [1]
The German occupiers then seized it and other works from the Uffizi, taking them to the Castel Giovo in the Province of Bolzano, intending to take all the works they had looted from the Uffizi to Germany. It was returned to the Palazzo Pitti in 1945 then back to the Uffizi in 1951. It was restored in 1988 and 2003–2004.
St. Jerome in the Desert (Bellini, Florence) Saint John the Baptist as a Boy (Raphael) Saint John the Evangelist and Saint Francis; Salome with the Head of John the Baptist (Luini) Santa Lucia de' Magnoli Altarpiece; Santa Trinita Maestà; Self-portrait (Hans Holbein the Younger) Self-Portrait (Beccafumi) Self-Portrait (Rembrandt, Florence)
It is housed in the Uffizi Gallery of Florence, Italy. The painting was executed for the Tebaldi Chapel in the church of the Annunziata of Florence, and was acquired by Cardinal Leopoldo de' Medici in 1670. It was moved to the Uffizi in 1804. [2] The work shows the Virgin in a central and illuminated position, with a dove hovering above her head.
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence Madonna of the Harpies ( Italian : Madonna delle Arpie ) is an altarpiece in oils by Andrea del Sarto , a major painter of the High Renaissance . It was commissioned in 1515 and was signed and dated by the artist in 1517 in the inscription on the pedestal; it is now in the Uffizi in Florence .
It is now in the Uffizi in Florence, where it was first recorded in the Tribuna in 1704, where it remained until 2010, when it was moved as part of the "New Uffizi" project. Preparatory drawings for the work are in the Uffizi's Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe (n. 6639F0) and (with variations) in the Phillips collection in London. [1] [2]
The queen ordered Zoffany to paint "the Florence Gallery" (the Galleria degli Uffizi), for which the artist would be paid £300. [1] In the summer of 1772, Zoffany left London for Florence, where he met Felton Hervey , an art collector and friend of the king and queen, who figures prominently in the painting. [ 2 ]