Gallery of the Offices
The Galerie of the Offices ( Galleria degli Italian Uffizi in ) is a Palais Florentin which now is confused with the Musée Offices sheltering one of the artistic inheritances oldest and most famous in the world.
History
This gallery is born from the initiative of Cosme the young person (1519-1574), first large-duke of Tuscany, which makes build by Giorgio Vasari a new whole of offices, the Offices (Uffizi) for the control of the state. Its architectural design is innovative: a cortile (now named Piazzale of the Offices ) lengthened form a street bordered of two long joined together buildings on the side of Arno by a gallery on two floors closing the cortile. Vasari envisages, on the second floor, of the offices lit by broad bays those of the large-duke.He is crossed by the Corridor of Vasari which occurs with the Palazzo Vecchio and finishes with the Palais Pitti to ensure the safety of Médicis.
See also: Piazzale of the Offices
In 1574, the large-duke François I {{er}} of Médicis entrusts the work management to Bernardo Buontalenti which supplements them with Alfonso Parigi it Vecchio until 1580. Between 1579 and 1581, the ceilings of the galleries are furnished with frescos with reason Grotesque of Antonio Tempesta then of Alessandro Allori, which associates the collaboration of Ludovico Buti, Giovanmaria Butteri, Giovanni Bizzelli and Alessandro Pieroni.
In summer 1993, gangster attacks against the Gallery of the Offices of Florence (and also the Museum of contemporary art of Milan) make ten deaths, in addition to major damage with the collections (3 destroyed tables, 173 damaged works and 50 sculptures had to be restored) what will stop work of enlarging and the access to the gallery.
Because of the big size of its collections, the museum transferred some from its works to other museums of the city. A project of expansion, in the course of finalization, aims at extending the space dedicated to the exposures from 6.000 to 13.000 m, which should give access of the public the many paintings remained a long time in the reserves.
Examples of universally known works presented
One finds in his collections the fabrics of large Masters of the Rebirth like the Birth of Venus and Spring of Botticelli, the Annunciation of Léonard de Vinci, or the Venus d' Urbin of Titien, Dionysos of the Caravage| Random links: | Peace of the Brave men | Superamerica Ferrari | Montmirey-the-city | Monteleone di Spoleto | Nancy Anne Sakovich | Homme_de_Wei |