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 ...

Since joining the Uffizi in January ... It is here, for example, that the famous Venus de’ Medici, the most renowned and ancient version of the lost Venus of Knidos, once venerated throughout ...

Above Venus, at the center ... once the seat of the Medici government, rises before the Uffizi Gallery, where many of Botticelli’s works are on display. Photograph by GIOVANNI SIMEONE/FOTOTECA ...

According to a statement from the Uffizi Galleries, the 2,500-foot-long Vasari Corridor was commissioned by the second duke ...

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 ...