Florence Uffizi Virtual Tour

Interactive cd-rom

Voyage through Italy Experience the breathtaking beauty of Italy and its artistic heritage on your own journey, as you navigate through photographs, films, music selections, animations, texts and narrations of excellent quality. Choose your path to discover the most celebrated and the lesser known works of art, architecture and music. Travel by interactive map, by timeline, by index or by special audiovisual introductions describing Italian life and culture. Enjoy your trip!

Florence An engrossing guided tour to help you discover the most important works by te great masters of the Florentine Renaissance. The interactive maps make it easy to pick out the monument or the site you're interested in. 500 images and two QuickTime VR™’ panoramic views take you on an in-depth tour of all the city sights. An easy-to-read introduction to the history of the city illustrates its development over the course of the centuries.Fifty-six biographical summaries describe the life and times of the most important historical figures.An audiovisual presentation of the history of the Medici family, from Cosimo the Elder to Cosimo III.

VIDEOTAPES - ART & MULTIMEDIA

THE GREAT MASTERS OF ITALIAN ART This extraordinary cd-rom lets you choose between 4 different languages (English, German, Italian, French) to guide you into a virtual visit through the most important Italian art masters from 13th to 18th Centuries. More than 350 works from over 70 Galleries, Palaces, Abbeys and Monasteries all over Europe. Works can analyzed by zooming in different cathegories: Tecnique, Century (and art period), and Places. Biographies and main works of most important artists are available.CD-rom includes also an italian concerto to be played during the virtual visit, a puzzle to be solved of lot of works and the option of choosing background.

THE MEDICI Learn about Lorenzo de' Medici, the great patron of the arts who reigned in Florence at the peak of the Renaissance. Browse through the Florence of the Medici, presented with art images, music, maps of the period, social and economic information, video clips and animations. Learn about the artists Lorenzo patronized and about the other patrons of the period. You will feel at home in the Medici's Florence and understand how many ways this city still reflects the fabulous period of Lorenzo's reign.

THE RENAISSANCE OF FLORENCE The masters of the Florentine Renaissance have all been brought together in this unique "docurama". Viewers become visitors in Renaissance Florence, guided by the "eyewitness" accounts of the 16th century author Vasari, who wrote the first book on the Renaissance. With him you will visit the artists' workshops and the back alleys of the Quattrocento, marvel at the great monuments and take a virtual walk through the city. Requirements: 80386 CPU 33Mhz; 4Mb Ram; SVGA display (640x480, 256 colors); single speed CD-ROM drive; 3Mb free space; Windows supported audio board and mouse; Windows 3.1; video for Windows 1.1

FLORENCE Florence on DVD and it lasts 60 minutes. With map animation, it is available with Italian, English, French, German Spagnish and Japanese comments.

THE UFFIZI A comprehensive video guide to the Uffizi that takes you trough seven centuries of European painting. This fabolous collection includes masterpieces by Goya, Rubens, Rembrandt, Titian, Tintoretto….with special emphasis on the Renaissance masters Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael and Botticelli.

Michelangelo View the life and work of one of the most significant figures in the history of western art. Profiles and detailed analyses of the master's major works, with references to his sculpture, painting, architecture and literature. A special function turns any image into a puzzle, allowing the user to study every aspect of the work as he reconstructs the image.

LEONARDO DA VINCI What is about the paintings of Leonardo da Vinci that captured our imagination for centuries? Leonardo's brilliance is explored in fascinating detail in this insightful CD-ROM. See all of Leonardo's painted works; compare different paintings and details side-by-side; zoom in to study details; listen to audio commentary by experts; learn about the materials, colors and techniques that are all a part of Leonardo's remarkable creativity; test your own artistic eye by reconstructing the greatest paintings in a specially designed game! Requirements: 486 PC; Windows 3.1; 8MB Ram; 5Mb free space; CD-ROM drive; graphics card 640x480, 256 colors; sound blaster.

FLORENCE A spectacular tour of Florence, the fabled city of art set in the Arno Valley surrounded by the cypress-covered hills of Tuscany.See Michelangelo' s statue of David and the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore with its majestic dome flanked by Giotto' s Lilly Tower. Visit the Uffizi Gallery and the Pitti Palace filled with world-famous masterpieces of the Renaissance. Stroll through the romantic Boboli Gardens up to the Belvedere to catch a breath-taking view of Florence spread out below.

THE BUILDING OF THE UFFIZI Contents ' The Building of the Uffizi', ' The Facades of the Uffizi', ' Visiting the Gallery'.The DVD contains an exclusive, inedited film: a tour of the ' Vasari Corridor' which houses the most important collection of self-portraits in the world. The Gallery is still growing today and will lead to the birth of the New Uffizi. The DVD special content illustrates the restoration of the facades, and presents viewers 'the threshold of the future'.