Holiday & Cookery in Tuscany - Florence

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Links to the main Florence Museums

Uffizi Gallery: This is one of the most famous museums of paintings and sculpture in the world. Its collection of Primitive and Renaissance paintings comprises several universally acclaimed masterpieces of all time, including works by Giotto, Simone Martini, Piero della Francesca, Fra Angelico, Filippo Lippi, Botticelli, Mantegna, Correggio, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo and Caravaggio. German, Dutch and Flemish masters are also well represented with important works by Dürer, Rembrandt and Rubens… The Vasari Corridor, the raised passageway connecting the Uffizi with the Pitti Palace, was built by Vasari in 1565. It is hung with an important collection of 17th-century paintings and the famous collection of artists’ Self-portraits…

Accademia Gallery: The Gallery is particularly famous for its sculptures by Michelangelo: the Prisoners, the St.Matthew and, especially, the statue of David which was transferred here, to the specially designed tribune, from Piazza della Signoria in 1873… There is also a collection of sculptures in plaster by the 19th-century sculptors Lorenzo Bartolini and Luigi Pampaloni, besides a section of Russian icons. Recently the Gallery has been further enriched by the important collection of old musical instruments from the Cherubini Conservatory…

Pitti Palace: The Pitti Palace, which was formerly the residence of the grand-dukes of Tuscany and later of the King of Italy, now houses several important collections of paintings and sculpture, works of art, porcelain and a costume gallery, besides providing a magnificently decorated historical setting which extends to the Boboli Gardens, one of the earliest Italian gardens famous also for its fountains and grottoes. It comprises the following galleries and museums...

Bargello National Museum: The Museum has a remarkable collection of sculpture and works of art... Since 1865 the palazzo houses the National Museum, bringing together many important Renaissance sculptures, including masterpieces by Donatello, Luca della Robbia, Verrocchio, Michelangelo and Cellini…

Cenacolo of Ognissanti: The refectory of the convent of Ognissanti is famous for the large fresco painted in 1488 by Domenico Ghirlandaio. Besides the Last Supper fresco and its sinopia... In the adjacent church are two other fine frescoes by Ghirlandaio: St Jerome (1480) and an early work by the artist representing the Madonna of Mercy with the Deposition of Christ , which were painted for the Vespucci family…

Cenacolo of Andrea del Sarto: The Museum occupies large part of the former Vallombrosan convent dedicated to San Salvi... They include works by Pontormo, Andrea del Sarto, Franciabigio, Raffaellino del Garbo, Giuliano Bugiardini, Bacchiacca and others. Also exhibited here is the funerary monument of St Giovanni Gualberto, founder of the Vallombrosan Order, which was commissioned from Benedetto da Rovezzano…

Cenacolo of Sant'Apollonia: The Museum occupies part of the former Benedictine convent of Sant'Apollonia,,, Around 1447 Andrea del Castagno frescoed the end wall of the refectory with scenes of the Last Supper, the Crucifixion , Deposition and Resurrection... besides paintings by Paolo Schiavo and Neri di Bicci originally painted for the convent…

Cenacolo of Santo Spirito: In the former convent also survives the great room of the mess hall (Cenacolo di Santo Spirito), with a large fresco portraying the Crucifixion over a fragmentary Last Supper, both attributed to Andrea Orcagna. It is one of the rare examples of Late Gothic Art which can still be seen in Florence. The room also boasts a collection of sculptures from the 11th-15th centuries, including two low reliefs by Donatello, an high relief by Jacopo della Quercia (Madonna with Child) and two marble sculptures by Tino da Camaino...

Palazzo Vecchio: is the town hall of Florence, Italy. This massive, Tuscan Gothic,[1] crenellated fortress-palace is among the most impressive town halls of Tuscany. Overlooking the Piazza della Signoria with its copy of Michelangelo's David statue as well the gallery of statues in the adjacent Loggia dei Lanzi, it is one of the most significant public places in Italy…

“Firenze com’era” Museum: The name of this museum translates as "Florence as it was"; it has prints, paintings, and other exhibits designed to show how Florence looked once upon a time. A diorama renders Roman Florence, of which little remains in the city today…

Institute and Museum of the History of Science: The Institute and Museum of the History of Science (Italian: Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, IMSS) is based in Torino, Italy. It was founded in 1927 by the University of Florence. The museum is located in the Palazzo Castellani, by the River Arno and close to the Uffizi Gallery… It contains Galileo's early telescopes and some of his experiments into gravity etc. The Science Museum also has a great collection of old clocks, bikes, maps...

Stibbert Museum: Frederick Stibbert left his collection to the city in 1906. The section dedicated to ancient arms and armour is of particular interest…

Alinari Museum of the History of Photography: The Fratelli Alinari Museum of History of Photography was inaugurated in 1985. The first in Italy and one of the fourteen in all the world, it is today the only national institution devoted exclusively to photographic exhibitions…

Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology: Founded in 1869 by the famous anthropologist Paolo Mantegazza, this was the first of its kind in Italy. It is in Palazzo Nonfinito which was begun in 1593 to the design of Bernardo Buontalenti and carried on but not completed by G. Battista Caccini, and subsequently by Cigoli in the early seventeenth century… The material it contains relates to the habits and customs of the different parts of the world and collections illustrative of the different races…

Horne Museum: The Horne Museum takes its name from the English collector Herbert P. Horne who left his palace and his collections of a lifetime to the Italian State... The museum reflects its owner's taste in layout... The collection consists of works by artists such as Giotto, Filippo Lippi, and Simone Martini, as well as antique furniture and domestic objects...