Excerpt from The Uffizi Gallery
In view of the enormous extent of the art collections housed in the Uffizi Gallery, it has been thought advisable to confine the subject-matter of this volume to the paintings arranged in the Gallery proper - that is to say, in the three corridors and the adjoining rooms on the upper floor of the Uffizi Palace. To include the vast rows of historical portraits in the passage leading across the Arno to the Pitti Palace, the unique display of drawings by the old masters, or the collections of sculpture and gems, would have made it impossible to keep the book within manageable proportions.
Even as it is, the present volume does not pretend to exhaust the material within the restrictions indicated above. Many of the works by painters of the Late Italian schools of the decadence are of little or no interest to the student, the art-lover, or the casual visitor to these Galleries; nor is there any need to enter into a detailed description of the rather insignificant cabinet pictures by the minor Flemish and Dutch painters, which were so eagerly collected by some of the Grand Dukes of Tuscany.
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