100 CAPOLAVORI DEGLI UFFIZI

Picking a hundred masterpieces from the Uffizi is a piece of cake: indeed, it’s hard to find a painting or sculpture that isn’t a masterpiece. The Uffizi Gallery is the most important museum in Italy, a museum founded in what was the capital of the arts when Italian art was the centre of art in the known world: we are talking about Florence and the heyday of the Renaissance. Visiting the Uffizi means encountering the works of the leading figures of that seminal cultural period – Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael – set like jewels in a crown that includes extraordinary gems extending from the Middle Ages to the 17th and 18th centuries. In these pages, as in those of a visual diary, we find the images of an experience that each of us will carry with us for the rest of our lives.