Uffizi 100 Masterpieces

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The most important Italian museum, visited by nearly two million people every year, from all over the world: the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. The gallery is the heart of the city and the casket of the Renaissance, Italian and beyond. It is there that the masterpieces of Botticelli, the Birth of Venus and the Allegory of Spring are found; one of the earliest pictorial proofs by Leonardo da Vinci; the Majesties of Giotto, Duccio and Cimabue; the Tondo Doni by Michelangelo, and then Raphael, Rubens, Caravaggio, Rembrandt. The volume has selected the hundred main works of the collection, those that are impossible not to know, illustrated and told to the general public of enthusiasts. The strong point which must absolutely be seen in the Uffizi Gallery, with a clear and exhaustive description by work. The author, Gloria Fossi, an art historian, has dealt with artists and the figurative culture of the Renaissance, among other studies. Among his books on these themes, translated into many languages: Florence. Historical artistic itinerary in the city of humanism, 1987; Filippo Lippi, 1988; Florence. Dream of a journey, 1990; The portrait. Artists, models, memory, 1996; Art in Florence, 2006; Masaccio, 2015; Uffizi Gallery. Art, history, collections, 2016.