Tuscany is home to some of the greatest Renaissance art, sculpture and architecture. Opera was created in Italy and many great composers and singers have lived and worked in Tuscany
Alcuni dei più importante capolavori del Rinascimento -- Pitura, Scultura ed Architettura
The Uffizi in Florence is the finest art gallery in Italy, containing masterpieces by artists such as Michelangelo, Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Titian, Raphael, Caravaggio, and Piero della Francesca. The gallery was once government offices (uffizi) designed for the Medici family mainly by Giorgio Vasari, the Renaissance architect, painter, and writer from Arezzo ...
It's best to try to book in advance when visiting the Uffizi, to avoid long queues.
See the official website -- www.uffizi.firenze.it/english/musei/uffizi
From Cortona, it is easy to reach and follow what is known as the Piero della Francesca trail
It is a journey to places where you can see many of the sublime artist's great works
Piero della Francesca (c 1416 -1492) was born and died in Sansepolcro, east of Arezzo. There you can see his Ressurection of Christ, referred to in a famous essay by the 20th century English author, Aldous Huxley, as the Best Picture in the World
In Arezzo, at the church of San Francesco is his masterpiece, the great fresco cycle, The Legend of the True Cross
At Monterchi, about eight miles southwest of Sansepolcro, you can see another of his renowned paintings, the Madonna del Parto (the Pregnant Madonna)