Uffizi Gallery Museum and the Pitti Palace Collections Boxed Set

This boxed set features two books showcasing two of the worlds most beautiful prestigious museums: the Pitti Palace and the Uffizi Gallery. Situated across the Arno River from Florences busy city center the 15th-century Palazzo Pitti is one of the citys crown jewels and contains the palaces splendid collections ranging from early masters like Giotto and Duccio to contemporary Italian artists. Aside from the palaces major paintings in the Palatine Gallery its sculptures decorative objects and the magnificent Boboli Gardens are beautifully photographed. The lively text weaves a web of intrigue romance and power as the story of the Medici familys creation of this world-class collection and the magnificent palace that houses it unfolds. Florences Uffizi Gallery on which construction began in 1560 houses such masterpieces as Botticellis The Birth of Venus as well as works by Bronzino Caravaggio Titian and Rubens. Connected to the Pitti Palace by a corridor designed by Vasari that crosses the Arno River the Uffizi Gallery is a one-of-a-kind museum. This gorgeous oversize book showcases the extraordinary collection and Alexandra Bonfante-Warren provides fascinating context by relating the story of the museums construction and complex history.