THE UFFIZI 
ALLERY 
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the bronzes of Cellini, Donatello, Ghiberti and 
Giambologna, as well as the sculptures of Be- 
nedetto da Rovezzano and of Verrocchio, toge- 
ther with some basreliefs of Luca della Robbia. 
And in 1866, still with object of extending the 
exhibition of the works of art, it was resolved 
to open to the public that part of the corridor 
built by Cosimo I after the plans of Vasari, 
which, starting from the Uffizi Gallery, is carried 
over the Arno by the Ponte Vecchio, and thus 
joins the Uffizi with the Pitti Gallery. In this 
corridor a great number of drawings were ar¬ 
ranged, a quantity of beautiful tapestries, some 
sketches by famous painters, and a collection of 
pictures of birds, quadrupeds, fishes and flowers 
painted in distemper by Bartolommeo Ligozzi. 
Later on, when the Archæological Museum was 
opened, the tapestries, to which many others 
were added, were carried thither, and arranged 
on the top floor, thus forming a special gallery; 
the drawings were placed in glass cases along 
the first and third corridors of the Uffizi Gallery 
and Ligozzi’s paintings were removed to the 
Natural History Museum. A series of portraits 
of the Medici, of noble Florentines, of men of 
science and of other famous personages filled 
up the space thus left empty in the corridor 
which connects the two Galleries. Even so, 
however, there was not sufficient space to exhi- 
bit many works of art which stil remained in 
the store-rooms now to order those already