The new rooms dedicated to Andrea del Sarto and the early 16th-century painters

Three new rooms full of masterpieces, on the second floor of the Uffizi Gallery illustrate the multifaceted talents of Andrea del Sarto, Fra Bartolomeo and the circle of painters active in Florence in the first twenty years of the sixteenth century. The premises, which gather 25 works, are located at the end of the Third Corridor and chronologically conclude the historical-pictorial narration of the Gallery. The original creative experience of those artists animated the cultural life of Florence in the first decades of the sixteenth century, definitely contributing to the development of ‘modern mannerism’ beyond Florence, that is, the most mature phase of the Renaissance. Fra Bartolomeo and Andrea del Sarto were in fact the leading lights of this extraordinary period.