Florence keeps an exceptional artistic heritage, marvellous evidence of its aged culture. Cimabue and Giotto, fathers of Italian painting, lived in Florence as well as Arnolfo and Andrea Pisano, renewers of architecture and sculpture; Brunelleschi, Donatello, Masaccio forefathers of the Renaissance, Ghiberti and the Della Robbias , Filippo Lippi, Angelico, Botticelli, and the universal genius of Leonardo and Michelangelo. Their works, together with those of many other generations of artists up to the artists of our century, are gathered in the several museums of the town : the Uffizzi, the most selected gallery in the world, the Palatina gallery with "Golden Ages" paintings, the Bargello Tower with the sculptures of the Renaissance, the museum of San Marco with Angelico's works, the Academy, Buonarroti's house with the sculptures of Michelangelo, the following museums: Bardini, Horne, Stibbert, Romano, Corsini, The Gallery of Modern Art, The museum of " Opera del Duomo", the museum of Silverware and the museum of "Precious" Stones. Great monuments are the landmarks florentine artistic culture: the Baptistry with its mosaics; the Cathedral with its sculptures, the medieval churches with bands of frescoes; public as well as private palaces: Palazzo Vecchio, Palazzo Pitti, Palazzo Medici Riccardi, monasteries, cloisters, refectories; the "Certosa". The archeological museum is plenty of documents of Etruscan civilization.