The Uffizi Gallery "The World's First Museum"

It’s truly a shame to place the world’s first museum on the “Cheap Seats Section” of Florentine Braheem, but unfortunately (Or perhaps fortunately for some of you :>), museums don’t translate well when you can’t see the works of art, this will be brief. The Uffizi Gallery was opened in 1580. Not only was it the worlds first museum, but it is considered by most to be one of the top museums in the world today. It houses some of the worlds greatest oil on canvas, including the original of Botticelli’s Venus and the famous La Primavera (You may think that you have never seen these two before, but I bet you have and just don’t know them by name). The Uffizi also has original works by Leonardo Da Vinci. His paintings reflect the natural world which is what he dedicated his life study to as well as the world of invention. Michelangelo (Who didn’t really like to paint much) has an original oil on canvas in the Uffizi as well (The Holy Family) which he painted in 1507. Once again, Pope Leo (The one who stayed at our castle) was depicted on canvas and this time at the Uffizi in a 1518 work by Raffaello.

The works that are depicted in the Uffizi Gallery is the greatest collection of Renaissance art in the world. The Renaissance was a time “New Beginning” and it showed in the expression of the worlds great artists. This was a time when all trends were “bucked” so to speak. For the first time, artists took great risk in going against the catholic church and showed pagan gods in their expression. Art became realistic for the first time (Real Life people were painted rather than symbolic examples). It was also the first time that artists showed the naked body in their works (Which of course is why this is such a great place to visit :>)