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

Dedicated to the XVIII Century. This room presents a panorama of the painting of this century, from the Venetians to the French, and to the Spanish Goya. By the great decorator Giovan Battista Tiepolo, the beautiful ceiling represents The Erection of a Statue to an Emperor, of great scenographic effect; Guardi and Canaletto, the major Venetia landscape artists are present along with Longhi, painter of the delighful genre pictures. Outstanding pictures in the French section include The Girl with the Shuttlecock and The Boy with Cards by Chardind and the Portrait of Marie Adelaide of France in Turkish Dress by Liotard, a work which already announces the nineteenth century realism. Francisco Goya is the artist of the large portrait of the Countees of Chinchon standing, where the realism is associated with the lightness of the garment without pity for the physiognomy.
The Vasarino Corridor. Built in 1565, in only five months, as a private passage joinging Palazzo Vecchio to the Pitti Palace, this corridor is almost one kilometre long. It is only opened by appointment and for group visits: there are about seven hundred works shown and divided into various section. In the first tract, up to the Ponte Vecchio, there are various works of the Italian school between the XVII and XVIII Century.
On the Ponte Vecchio and beyond, is the Collection of Selfportraits (the most important in the world) begun by Cardinal Leopoldo dei Medici, who is portrayed here in the statue by Foggini. Some hundreds of works from the XIV Century to the present day are shown; from the Giotto school to Chagall. In the tract which comes out into the Boboli Gardens, there follows the Iconographic Collection, an immensely rich series of portraits of historical personages.