Excerpt from Walks in Florence, and Its Environs, Vol. 2
We begin our review of the Public Galleries with the Uffizi, as it contains the works of artists from the eleventh to the seventeenth centuries, and thus illustrates the history of art, from the revival to the decline. The limits of this book oblige us to confine our descriptions chiefly to Tuscan, and especially Florentine, art. We hope thus to afford some assistance to the foreigner, who may not have time to acquire a profound knowledge of the subject, and who, at first sight, may find it difficult to discover any merit, still less beauty, in the early native style of painting.
The corridor, extending along three sides of the Gallery, is lined with sarcophagi, statues, and busts, as well as pictures deserving notice, though, with few exceptions, inferior, as works of art, to those contained in the adjoining rooms.
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