Italian masters line up for inspection

Eighty-two works of art from the Uffizi Gallery collection will be on show from next week in Shanghai, the first time the Italian museum has held such a large-scale exhibition on the mainland.

Uffizi is one of the most important and visited museums in Italy and was founded by the Medici family in Florence, 1581. It contains the foremost collections of Italian Renaissance paintings in the world.

The exhibition will display not only the works of Florentine artists, like Sandro Botticelli, but masterpieces by artists from other parts of Italy, like Jacopo Tintoretto and Titian Tiziano Vecellio as well as classical works from leading artists in Germany, French and the Netherlands.