The statue is known as the Venus de' Medici. A figure of Cupid is riding ... too pleased to assent to the removal of the statue from Rome to the Medici art gallery in Florence, the Uffizi, where it ...

Now, the raised passageway that connects the city's Uffizi Galleries to the former residence of the powerful Medici family, has reopened to the public after an eight-year restoration project.

Home to a priceless collection of Renaissance art and other masterpieces, including Sandro Botticelli's Birth of Venus ... Medici, grand duke of Tuscany. Originally built as government offices ...

A star of the Uffizi’s collection in Florence ... Botticelli might have been inspired Venus de’ Medici, a marble sculpture of the goddess dating to 1st-century B.C.E. This reference to ...

Occupying the first and second floors of the U-shaped Palazzo degli Uffizi along the banks of the Arno River, the Uffizi Gallery was created by the Medici ... Botticelli's "Birth of Venus ...