It features a horse drawn carriage and a unicorn drawn carriage that is intended to the allegories of triumph. Giotto was one of the most influential artist leading up the golden-era of the renaissance. His Ognissanti or Madonna Enthroned was painted by Giotto di Bondone in the late medieval period proto-Renaissance and is on wood panel. Although this is not the first appearance, Giotto is the first western-European artists to depict 3 dimensional figures.
What he did was considered highly innovative at time and was a catalyst for artists like Botticelli and Michelangelo. Caravaggio was sort of the Quentin Tarantino of the baroque period.
He painted grotesque gripping artwork that turned heads. His Medusa is no exception. Location in Uffizi: the Medusa shield in the Hall 90 dedicated to Caravaggio. The painting was a gift from the Duke to his young wife. It represented the allegory of marriage; eroticism, fidelity, and motherhood.
The eroticism is evident in the representation of Venus, the goddess of love. The dog at her feet represents marital fidelity, while the girl looking through the chest in the background represents motherhood.
Rembrandt was a very important figure as he carried the Italian renaissance north and was a key figure in the Dutch renaissance. He lived during the 17th century and has two self portraits. First as a young man and another as a mature man. He followed the path of Caravaggio painting in a chiaroscuro method to draw attention to key dramatic features. Doni Tondo or The Holy Family is one of a literal handful of free-standing panel paintings Michaelangelo worked on and apparently the only panel that was completed.
It was commissioned by a merchant Agnolo Doni to commemorate the birth of his child. Venus or Aphrodite is a highly sculpted mythological figure due to what she represents — beauty.
This was common as the Romans gravitated towards Greek art — everyone did. The sculpture was taken into ownership by the Medici and attributed to Prixiteles but there is little foundation for that. The base says it was sculpted by the son of Apollodorus but that is not true.
Regardless, it is a beautifully done sculpture that was undoubtedly admired by Botticelli and Michelangelo. Looking at the painting, the Madonna is shown young and beautiful. She is clothed in red and blue, the red signifies the passion of Christ and the blue signifies the church. La Primavera or Spring in English is considered to be one of the greatest paintings ever produced.
Get the best deal direct from the owners on FlorenceAccommodation. Book your unique Florentine Experience Book your Tour. Florence What to See Museum Bookings. How to book Florence museum tickets to not wait in line Florence is known as the "Cradle of the Renaissance" for its palaces, churches and museums ,turning the city into an open-air museum that attracts millions of visitors from all over the world every year, year round.
How to pre-book or buy museum tickets Please note: All pre-booked tickets have an extra pre-booking fee added on. Here's the low-down for buying museum tickets ahead of time for the STATE museums in Florence: By telephone : The cheapest solution for pre-booking museum tickets in Florence is by phone! See the full list of State museums in Florence here. Why is it the BEST way?
Because you don't have to pay ahead of time. You are given a booking and with this, you present yourself about minutes before your reserved time, pay only then as you pick up for your tickets and then proceed on your visit. Online on the official website : B-ticket. It is the online version of the call center, so the cost of the ticket is the same as if you booked by phone through the call center. There are two drawbacks compared to the call center: 1.
You don't have to pre-book tickets for any museums, we just generally recommend it for the Uffizi and Accademia because of the long lines there are the general entrance ticket line which make you lose precious time in Florence.
If you're time is limited, we recommend getting tickets for those two museums ahead of time. So if you want to join a guided tour, they are offered by local tour agencies and the tours include TICKETS to ensure you skip any lines. A great source of guided tours is Viator. This makes all the tours easier to find.
Generally, if you're interested in visiting any museum with a guide, you book your tour, a meeting point is set and you go into the museum together as a group, the tour leader has your ticket. All tours include museum tickets, so don't buy tickets separately! There are many tours, including walking tours, which make perfect sense if your time in Florence is limited.
There are large group tours as well as small group tours, as well as private tours: take a look at the options to find something you would enjoy. If you want small, personal guided tours, we have found the tours offered by tour company Italy-Tickets.
How about booking CITY museums? Which museums should you visit? We have added some additional tips, we hope you find it useful. For anything not covered, let us know! The links to buy tickets and tours online are affiliations with selected partners to offer the possibility to book your tickets for the date you will be in Florence right now.
It has been online since September Since March , a new ticket pricing system went into effect. There are now seasonal passes. A full ticket costs 12 euro between November 1st and the end of February, from March 1st through October 31st the cost goes up to 20 euro per person.
If you wish to avoid lines at the Uffizi, you can book your tickets ahead of time. Prebooking adds a booking charge of 4 euros to the ticket cost, as well as commissions depending on which site you buy tickets from. You can see more details on our Buy Tickets page. There are various vendors all authorized by the museum to sell both tickets and tours online.
For our website, we have selected Florence-Tickets. Our partners offer more than just the museum ticket! If you purchase tickets through the links you find on our site, you will receive great customer service from experienced travel operators, you can also change the date or time on your tickets if your travel plans change or cancel your tickets at a fee for changes, or with partial refund for cancellations.
The best option is to combine ticket purchase with a guided tour, as the Uffizi museum collections are vast. You can join a guided tour led by English-speaking professional, licensed tour guides.
All of the reservations for tours and museum tickets are managed directly by our partners, not by Visit Uffizi. On the official ticket shop, b-ticket, tickets are cannot be modified and are only refundable if certain conditions apply strike, air conditioner breaks down, etc.
When comparing the costs and terms of tickets across various websites, check whether these costs are included:. School groups must consist of 16 students maximum, including accompanying persons. Teachers are responsible for their classes; they must keep pupils together and disciplined and supervise that their behaviour should respect the place, other visitors and in general comply with the above given regulations. School groups, both those included in the daily maximum number of groups allowed and those entering as individuals, are also obliged to use earphones, as per the Regulation and taking into account the exceptions already foreseen Mandatory use of earphones.
Accompanying teachers are, in this case, considered tourist guides and, therefore, shall comply with the same rules. Should they not be interested in giving explanations and using headphones, they have to fill in the specific renunciation form available at the ticket office and attached here , to be kept for the duration of the whole visit.
Explanations without the use of headphones are forbidden. Exercising the profession of tour guide inside the Uffizi Galleries is exclusively allowed to professional guides, pursuant to current legislation.
For information concerning any reduced rates for tourist guides, please click here. In cases of high attendance, staff may temporarily close some rooms or itineraries in order to safeguard both the works on display and visitors. In case of evacuation, all visitors must proceed in an orderly manner, following the directives given by the staff in charge.
Home Some rules for visitors. Planning your visit Prior to your visit, particularly during extremely busy times and in the case of single visitors, we suggest booking your ticket here , in order to avoid lengthy queues on admission.
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