The Uffizi Gallery,
Italy's greatest art gallery was built between
1560 - 1580 to house offices for one of the
famous Medici family Duke Cosimo I.
The architect Varsari used iron
as reinforcement which enabled his successor
Buontalenti to create an almost continuous wall
of glass on the upper storey.
This was used as a gallery for
Francesco I to display the Medici Art Treasures.
The Uffizi Gallery houses works
by Botticelli, Michelangelo, Titian, Caravaggio,
Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael and Giotto, and shows
in a chronological order the different periods
from Gothic Art, through the Early Renaissance,
on to High Renaissance and Mannerism to later
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