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The Uffizi Gallery occupies the entire first and second floors of the large building constructed between 1560 and 1580 based on a design by Giorgio Vasari: it is one of the most famous museums in the world for its extraordinary collections of ancient sculptures and paintings, from the Middle Ages to the modern age. The collections of paintings from the fourteenth century and the Renaissance contain some absolute masterpieces of art of all time: it is enough to remember the names of Giotto, Simone Martini, Piero della Francesca, Beato Angelico, Filippo Lippi, Botticelli, Mantegna, Correggio, Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, as well as masterpieces of European painting, especially German, Dutch and Flemish. No less important in the panorama of Italian art is the collection of statuary and busts from antiquity of the Medici family: the collection embellishes the corridors of the Gallery and includes ancient Roman sculptures, copies of lost Greek originals. Speakers: Lucia Montuschi (Professor of Art History) Michele Scolletta (Head of Allianz Network Italy - Allianz Global Investors)