Scala Publications, 1993. Hardcover. New oversize hardcover in new dust jacket. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. (8.1 x 0.8 x 11.2 inches) Includes art prints and an index. 224 pp.

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ISBN: 9781870248815

The Uffizi contains the greatest collection of Italian Renaissance art in the world, including works by all the key Florentine artists from Giotto to Michelangelo. Such treasures attract millions of visitors, making this the most popular museum in Italy. The Uffizi or government 'Offices" were built by Giorgio Vasari in the third quarter of the sixteenth century for Cosimo I, Grand Duke of Tuscany. From the beginning it had always been the intention to house the Medici collections of paintings and sculpture on the top floor.

In a series of specially commissioned photographs, this book looks at the different schools from the earliest medieval paintings to the nineteenth century. The volume is divided into two parts: the first section is devoted to Florentine and Tuscan art, with the second detailing paintings from the rest of Italy and Europe. Several works illustrated have been recently cleaned with spectacular results. Here are the paintings that have captured the imagination of artists and art lovers for centuries: Michelangelo's Dono Tondo, Botticelli's Primavera and Birth of Venus, and Bronzino's remarkable Medici portraits.

This book will appeal to all those with a passion for Italian art, as well as students, art historians and visitors to art museums. It makes an ideal reference work.

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