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Dhruvika makwana 19SA113

Shivam purohit 19SA150
 Giorgio Vasari was a very prolific and
eclectic artist.
He is often called “the first art historian.” His book- Lives of the Most
Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, documents the lives of
Renaissance artists such as Cimabue, Giotto, and Michelangelo.

He was a brilliant polymath, and his expertise covered a

number of different subjects, including writing, painting,
and planning.

Periods: Mannerism, Italian Renaissance,

Renaissance
Nationality: Italian
Known for: Painting, architecture
It is in Florence that we can
admire the majority of Vasari’s
contribution to architecture.
The Uffizi colonnade and
loggia

One of the most important Italian

museums and the most visited, it
is also one of the largest and best
known in the world and holds a
collection of priceless works,
particularly from the period of the
Italian Renaissance.
The Uffizi is one of the first
modern museums.
Today, the Uffizi is one of the most popular tourist attractions of Florence and
one of the most visited art museums in the world, with 4,391,861 visitors in
2019.
In the eighteenth century, the museum was donated to
the city of Florence.
The museum has become known for its impressive
paintings and classical sculptures from the Middle Ages
to modern times.
The period from the fourteenth century up to the Renaissance has yielded
absolute masterpieces by well-known Italian artists, but also by many Flemish, German
and Dutch artists, such as Rembrandt and Rubens.
 Museum layout
The layout of the museum is designed to show you the development of Florentine art to Gothic to
Renaissance.

The earliest art collection can be found on floor two.

In rooms seven to fourteen you will find the works from the early Renaissance

In rooms 44-55 you will find masterpieces from other European countries.

LOGGIA*
-a roofed open gallery especially at an upper story overlooking an open court.

In 1560, Duke Cosimo I de'
Medici commissioned Giorgio
Vasari to build a large structure
that would accommodate all
the separate agencies
conducting government
business, which were currently
scattered around the city. The
building's function as an office
complex is reflected by the
name Uffizi, which means
"offices."
His loggia of the Palazzo
degli Uffizi by the Arno
opens up the vista at the
far end of its long narrow
courtyard. It is a unique
piece of urban planning
that functions as a public
piazza, and which, if
considered as a short
street, is unique as a
Renaissance street with a
unified architectural
treatment. The view of
the Loggia from the Arno
reveals that, with the
Vasari Corridor, it is one
of very few structures
that line the river which
are open to the river
itself and appear to
embrace the riverside
environment.
FUNCTIONS
Practical Function of
Centralization
The Uffizi Palace was intended
to centralize the government by
bringing together its various
administrative agencies. The
use of a single building for all
administrative functions was a
new concept in Italy at this
time.
In being both colossal in scale
and uniform in design, the N
Uffizi is an early example of
the type of architecture that
was built by authoritarian
rulers in the following
centuries, when some of
Europe's most impressive
buildings and public squares
were built.
GROUND FLOOR PLAN RIVER SIDE ELEVATION
Ground story.
At the ground-story level, a loggia runs along the east
wing, the south end, and part of the west wing.
Loggias in the Renaissance, they are supported by
colonnades made up of columns and piers.
On the back wall, doors stand between pairs of
decorative niches.

The piers are decorated by

niches containing sculpture
rather than by the orders.
The Church of Santa Maria Nuova

The Church of Santa Maria Nuova, in particular, as The church of Santa Maria Nuova is located just outside of the walls of the town of Cortona, in
a centralised square-plan Renaissance church, is a Tuscany, Italy. It is built on a Greek cross plan and is surmounted by a main cupola which was
prime example of an important principle of only finished during the 17th century, a wonderful example of such a centralised design.
Renaissance construction. Santa Maria Nuova was
built by Giorgio Vasari in 1554 and is an example of Frescoes painted on the interior The combined facade can
one of that great architect’s later works walls of the church, cloister, and be inscribed by a square;
chapterhouse are by such Italian
masters of Gothic and early many other repetitions of
Renaissance painting squares can be found in
the design

The buttresses solve a longstanding

architectural problem: How to
transfer from wide to narrow storeys.
Churches all over Italy draw their
origins from the design of this
church.