Uffizi, Florence

The Uffizi Gallery in Florence holds the world’s greatest collection of Italian Renaissance painting, built on the collections of the Medici family. Its most beloved works include Sandro Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus and Primavera.

  • The Birth of Venus

    ByDominik Szobak

    Here is a fact that stops most people in their tracks: The Birth of Venus was painted on canvas — not wood panel — at a time when nearly every major Italian altarpiece and large-scale painting was produced on wood, making it one of the earliest surviving large-format canvas paintings in Western art history. Quick…