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Encyclopedia > Galleria degli Uffizi

The Uffizi Gallery (Italian Galleria degli Uffizi) is a palace or palazzo in Florence, holding one of the most famous museums in the world.


Building of the palace was commenced in 1560 by Giorgio Vasari for Cosimo I de' Medici as the offices for the Florentine magistrates - hence the name uffizi, meaning offices. Construction work ended in 1581. Over the years, parts of the palace evolved into a storage place of many works of art collected by the Medici family. After the decline of the Medici, the art treasures remained in Florence, forming one of the first modern museums.


Here is only a small selection from the world-class collection of paintings: (NB: All the links following the artists' names are to pages explaining the subject or form of the paintings, except for The Birth of Venus, which links to a page on the painting itself)

In 1993, a car bomb destroyed and damaged parts of the palace; a number of pictures were destroyed, several more were damaged. A project is currently under way to expand the exposition space of the museum from some 6,000 square metres to almost 13,000 by 2006, allowing public viewing of many artworks long usually in storage.


Uffizi pictures in Wikipedia

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Woman with a Basket of Spindles, Andrea del Sarto, 1517
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Witchcraft (Allegory of Hercules), 1535
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Judith Beheading Holofernes, Artemisia Gentileschi (1612-21)
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Self-portrait of Diego Velázquez, 1643
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The Birth of Venus, Sandro Botticelli

External links

  • Uffizi Gallery (http://www.uffizi.firenze.it/)

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CGFA- Sandro Botticelli (171 words)
The Adoration of the Magi, 1475, tempera on wood, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.
The Birth of Venus, 1480, tempera on canvas, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.
Pallas and the Centaur, undated, tempera on canvas, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.
Hotel Park Palace, Firenze - Monumenti di Firenze - Galleria degli Uffizi (504 words)
Il Palazzo degli Uffizi venne iniziato da Giorgio Vasari nel 1560 e completato dal Buontalenti, come sede degli uffici amministrativi di Stato, con lo scopo di riunire tali "Uffizi" che fino a quel momento erano collocati in sedi separate.
All'interno del Palazzo degli Uffizi si trova il Teatro Mediceo, opera sempre del Buontalenti, che ai tempi di Firenze capitale d'Italia, fu sede del Senato.
I Medici arricchirono continuamente la Galleria con pezzi ricevuti in eredità da Vittoria della Rovere, moglie di Ferdinando II, con gli acquisti del Cardinale Leopoldo de' Medici e con la raccolta di Autoritratti oggi esposti nel Corridoio Vasariano, costruito nel 1565 dal Vasari, che unisce gli Uffizi alla reggia di Palazzo Pitti.
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