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Located in the Historic Centre of Florence, in the stunning region of Tuscany, the Uffizi Gallery (or Galleria degli Uffizi in Italian) is an art museum that\u2019s famous across the globe. The gallery holds numerous pieces of priceless masterpieces and a collection of the best art from the Italian Renaissance period.<\/p>\n
The fact that it\u2019s one of Italy\u2019s most important and well known art galleries alone draws in countless tourists every year \u2013 having 2 million visitors annually. Regardless of how you plan to spend your holiday in Tuscany, you\u2019re sure to want to pay a visit to the Uffizi Gallery.<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re looking to see the best art that Italy has to offer, or some of the world\u2019s most stunning masterpieces, there\u2019s no doubt that a trip the Uffizi Gallery will be perfect for you.<\/p>\n
Tuscany has produced countless famous artworks, thanks to the fact that some of history\u2019s most talented artists came from this region. However, when visiting, you\u2019re sure to see many more pieces of art from around the world; including works by Dutch, French and German masterminds.<\/p>\n
Here, you\u2019ll see work created by many recognized artists (such as Giotto, Michelangelo and Cimabue), but as you\u2019ll see when you visit, there are many, many masterpieces by a variety of extraordinarily talented individuals on display. The Uffizi Gallery hosts a number of pieces by Sandro Boticelli. This includes art like\u00a0The Birth of Venus<\/em>,\u00a0Madonna of the Pomegranate<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Primavera<\/em>. A number of Leonardo da Vinci\u2019s most prominent works are located here too, including\u00a0The Baptism of Christ<\/em>, which was made early in his career.<\/p>\n Other talented Italian artists who have art in the Uffizi Gallery include Correggio, Pontormo and Tintoretto. So you\u2019re bound to learn plenty about the techniques and styles of Italy\u2019s finest. Hans Memling, Rubens, El Greco and Velasquez are just a few of the many astonishing European names to have work featured here, too.<\/p>\n There are so many different masterpieces to feast your eyes on in this wonderful museum, but you may be wondering which ones are the gallerys\u2019 most famous.<\/p>\n The double\u00a0Portrait of the Dukes of Urbino<\/em>, by Piero della Francesca, is certainly one of the favourites. Most would agree that there\u2019s nothing like seeing it in person. Caravaggio\u2019s work is also outstanding, with pieces like\u00a0Medusa<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Bacchus<\/em>\u00a0being some of the Uffizi Gallery\u2019s most impressive.<\/p>\n The\u00a0Madonna del Cardellino<\/em>\u00a0by Raphael,\u00a0Tondo Doni<\/em>\u00a0by Michelangelo and\u00a0Judith Slaying Holofernes<\/em>\u00a0by Artemisia Gentileschi are just a few other great examples of art that makes this gallery one of the greatest in not just Italy, but in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Uffizi Gallery \u2013 Tuscany\u2019s Most Famous Art Gallery Located in the Historic Centre of Florence, in the stunning region of Tuscany, the Uffizi Gallery (or Galleria degli Uffizi in Italian) is an art museum that\u2019s famous across the globe. The gallery holds numerous pieces of priceless masterpieces and a collection of the best art […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toursoftuscany.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toursoftuscany.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toursoftuscany.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toursoftuscany.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toursoftuscany.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toursoftuscany.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toursoftuscany.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toursoftuscany.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toursoftuscany.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toursoftuscany.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}The most famous art in the Uffizi Gallery<\/strong><\/h2>\n