Uffizi Gallery
Overview
The Medici's offices turned into Europe's first modern art gallery, bequeathed to Tuscany by Anna Maria Luisa in 1743. Botticelli's Birth of Venus and Primavera, Leonardo's Adoration, Michelangelo's Doni Tondo, and rooms of Raphael line the Vasari corridor's courtyard. The archive of the Grand Ducal collections shaped art history itself.
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