The Most Beautiful Drawings from the Uffizi (Collection) Facsimile Edition

The Most Beautiful Drawings from the Uffizi collection features forty-eight plates reproducing a selection of drawings from the Uffizi's Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe, the most prestigious museum institution in the city of Florence. Founded in the mid-seventeenth century, the Uffizi's Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe holds an immense heritage of culture and technique, boasting over one hundred and fifty thousand sheets, including drawings, engravings, miniatures, and photographs, from the fourteenth century to the present day. The plates included in this collection were created between the mid-fifteenth and mid-eighteenth centuries by artists from various Italian schools and by famous foreign masters. From the Italian artists such as Botticelli, Ghirlandaio, Pontormo, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Mantegna, Titian, and Tintoretto, to the Northern Europeans Antoon Van Dyck, Pieter Paul Rubens, and Rembrandt.