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50 Works of Art to See Before You Die

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The nine Italian masterworks and where to find them.


The following Italian works of art were included in Jonathan Jones' controversial list - 50 Works of Art to See Before You Die - in The Guardian Unlimited 2006.

Uffizi Gallery
Loggiato degli Uffizi
Centro Città Est (Center City East) Duomo
50122 Florence (FI)
Tuscany
Italy
tel: +39-055-2388651
Sandro Botticelli, Primavera (c 1481-1482).
Leonardo da Vinci, The Adoration of the Magi (c 1481),
Simone Martini and Lippo Memmi, The Annunciation (1335).

Museum of Capodimonte
Via Bosco di Capodimonte
80100 Naples (NA)
Campania
Italy
tel: +39-081-7441307 +39-081-7499111
Titian, Danaë (c 1544-6)

Cappella degli Scrovegni
Piazza Eremitani, 8
35100 Padova (PD)
Veneto
Italy
tel: +39-049-2010020 - reservations
fax: +39-049-8204566
Giotto, fresco cycle in the Scrovegni Chapel (1305-1306).

Museo di Palazzo Bellomo
Viale Teocrito, 66/A
96100 Siracusa (SR)
Sicily
Italy
tel: +39-0931-69511 or +39-0931-69529
The Burial of St Lucy (1608) by Caravaggio.

Vatican Museum
Citta dei Vaticano Entrance in Viale Vaticano
Vatican
00100 Rome (RM)
Lazio
Italy
tel: +39-06-9883333
Raphael, The School of Athens (1510-11), Stanza della Segnatura, Vatican Palace.
Michelangelo, ceiling and altar wall frescoes (1508-1541), Sistine Chapel, Rome.

Brancacci Chapel
Piazza dei Carmine
Oltrano (The Artisan Quarter)
50125 Florence (FI)
Tuscany
Italy
tel: +39-055-2382195
Masaccio, The Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise (c 1427).

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