The Uffizi

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"The Uffizi, in Florence, was a culmination in the long tradition of public architecture in the Italian city-states. In communes, republics, or princely states, the citizens or rulers of these towns and cities had patronized the design and construction of public buildings and spaces that directly reflected the nature of the polity. With the violent end of the Florentine Republic and the return of the Medici family as hereditary rulers of an expanding state, a new variant was needed to describe the novel state of affairs. Cosimo I, the second Medici duke, and his son Francesco I, required public architecture that would simultaneously detach the Florentines from their republican past and legitimate the rule of the Medici. Cosimo's commission to Giorgio Vasari to build the Uffizi, in which various state functions would be centralized, and..."

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