Virtual Uffizi: the complete catalogue of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence Italy. Galleria degli Uffizi

"Tribune", built by Buontalenti (1585-89), and decorated with shells by Pocchetti. In the center, the famous Medici Venus, Roman copy of an original Hellenistic work of the end of the 4th century B.C., found in Hadrian's Villa in Rome. The other statues, also Roman copies of Greek exemplaries, represent: the Knife Whetter, the Wrestlers, and the Dancing Faun. In the niche of the Tribune is a cabinet of ebony with inlaid Florentine mosaic. On the walls are splendid portraits of the Medici; among the most important Cosimo the Elder by Pontormo; Lorenzo the Magnificent, by Vasari; Lucrezia and Bartolomeo Panciatichi, by Bronzino, a refined portrait painter who also painted the portraits of Cosimo I and his wife Eleonor of Toledo, shown with her son Giovanni; by the same artist are the gracious children of Cosimo and Eleonor, don Garcia and Isabella. Also of note in this room is the charming Musical Angel by Rosso Fiorentino.