Florence: The Uffizi Gallery

Take a complete, annotated tour of The Uffizi. Everything below, and more, can be found in the closed captions. Cosimo I de’ Medici, commissioned Vasari to build the administrative offices of Florence in 1560. The “Uffizi,” in Italian means offices. To visit it today is to get a crash course in Italian Renaissance art. So get to the office early. Vasari wrote that Cimabue trained under Greek painters brought to Florence to revive the art of painting. Duccio, in Siena had masters, whose frescos you can see