Uffizi

The Uffizi Gallery (Italian: Galleria degli Uffizi) is a palace or palazzo in Florence, holding one of the oldest and most famous art museums in the world.

The collections

Here is only a small selection from the world-class collection of paintings:

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• Cimabue (Maestà)
• Duccio (Maestà)
• Giotto (The Ognissanti Madonna, Badia Polyptych)
• Simone Martini (The Annunciation)
• Paolo Uccello (The Battle of San Romano)
• Piero della Francesca (Diptych of Duke Federico da Montefeltro and Duchess Battista Sforza of Urbino)
• Fra Filippo Lippi (Madonna with Child and Two Angels)
• Sandro Botticelli (Primavera, The Birth of Venus, The Adoration of the Magi and others)
• Hugo van der Goes (The Portinari Triptych)
• Leonardo da Vinci (Baptism of Christ, The Annunciation, The Adoration of the Magi)
• Piero di Cosimo (Perseus liberating Andromeda)
• Albrecht Dürer (The Adoration of the Magi)
• Michelangelo (The Doni Tondo)
• Raphael (Madonna of the Goldfinch, Pope Leo X with Cardinals Giulio de' Medici and Luigi de' Rossi)
• Titian (Flora, Venus of Urbino)
• Parmigianino (The Madonna of the Long Neck)
• Caravaggio (Bacchus, The Sacrifice of Isaac, Medusa)

Self-portraits in the Vasari Corridor

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Image:Diegovelázquezselfportrait.JPG|Diego Velázquez, 1643

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Image:Lebrun, Self-portrait.jpg|Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, 1790

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