First Corridor

The three corridors facing the Uffizi square constituted a single, long loggia in the original building. Their present appearance is the result of transformation work carried out by Buontalenti in 1580.

Also dating from those years is the splendid grotesque decoration of the vaults, the work of various artists.
Arranged on the left wall is a series of 16th-century tapestries: some, such as those depicting the months of the year or grotesques, are of the Florentine school and were executed on cartoons by Bachiacca; others, on the other hand, are of the Flemish school and depict festivities at the court of Henry III and Catherine de' Medici.

Recently, such tapestries were removed from the walls for cleaning and restoration purposes. Due to too much sunlight in the summer months, they will probably be placed in a different room after restoration.
Above runs the series of portraits of historical figures from the Gioviana collection (16th-18th centuries). On either side of the corridor are sculptures from the Roman period, including, at the beginning of the corridor, the group of Hercules knocking down the Centaur, from the Hellenistic period, the statue of Proserpine, a Roman copy from a 4th-century Greek original, the statue of Apollo, a copy from Praxiteles, and several Roman sarcophagi from the Imperial period, carved in low relief.