The Uffizi: All Paintings In 696 Illustrations And The Vasari Corridor
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
One of the world's most celebrated repositories of Renaissance art, Florence's Uffizi Gallery holds a collection so vast and so magnificent that it demands a guide of equal stature. The Uffizi: All Paintings in 696 Illustrations and the Vasari Corridor, written by Luciano Berti — Director of the Gallery himself — presents the complete painted collection of this iconic institution, cataloguing every work across 696 stunning illustrations alongside a dedicated section on the legendary Vasari Corridor, the secret elevated passageway commissioned by Cosimo I de' Medici. This authoritative volume chronicles the full sweep of Western art history as seen through the Uffizi's unparalleled holdings, from Cimabue and Giotto through Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian, and Caravaggio, offering both scholarly rigour and visual splendour in a single indispensable reference. Written with the insider authority of a man who stewarded these very halls, Berti's prose is precise, illuminating, and deeply reverent of the artistic legacy he documents. The volume stands as more than a catalogue — it is a monument to the Medici's extraordinary patronage and to Florence's role as the cradle of the Renaissance, arguing implicitly that no reproduction can substitute for understanding these works in their full historical and architectural context. Whether used as a research tool or a work of art in its own right, this comprehensive compendium leaves the reader forever changed in their understanding of what a gallery can be.
Author: Luciano Berti
Format: Paperback
Genre: History of arts
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
One of the world's most celebrated repositories of Renaissance art, Florence's Uffizi Gallery holds a collection so vast and so magnificent that it demands a guide of equal stature. The Uffizi: All Paintings in 696 Illustrations and the Vasari Corridor, written by Luciano Berti — Director of the Gallery himself — presents the complete painted collection of this iconic institution, cataloguing every work across 696 stunning illustrations alongside a dedicated section on the legendary Vasari Corridor, the secret elevated passageway commissioned by Cosimo I de' Medici. This authoritative volume chronicles the full sweep of Western art history as seen through the Uffizi's unparalleled holdings, from Cimabue and Giotto through Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian, and Caravaggio, offering both scholarly rigour and visual splendour in a single indispensable reference. Written with the insider authority of a man who stewarded these very halls, Berti's prose is precise, illuminating, and deeply reverent of the artistic legacy he documents. The volume stands as more than a catalogue — it is a monument to the Medici's extraordinary patronage and to Florence's role as the cradle of the Renaissance, arguing implicitly that no reproduction can substitute for understanding these works in their full historical and architectural context. Whether used as a research tool or a work of art in its own right, this comprehensive compendium leaves the reader forever changed in their understanding of what a gallery can be.