The Uffizi Grotesques: A Guidebook

A guide to the grotesques that adorn the eastern corridor of the Uffizi Galleries, in which the playful aspect, the pursuit of the marvelous and the monstrous prevail.

The grotesques that adorn the Gallery of Statues and Paintings, the original name for the Uffizi's corridors, belong to different periods. The most imaginative and most artistically admirable, however, are the earliest ones, contrasting with the classical severity of the antique statues in the Medici collection there displayed...