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Uffizi
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
Uffizi ( Galleria degli Uffizi ), Florence. The chief public gallery of Florence. The nucleus...collection derives from the art treasures of the Medici family, and the Uffizi Palace was begun by Vasari in 1560 for Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand...
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Leonardo da Vinci
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
...Verrocchio's Baptism of Christ ( c. 1470, Uffizi, Florence), and the head of the angel...an exquisite Annunciation ( c. 1473, Uffizi), usually regarded as his earliest surviving...altarpiece of the Adoration of the Magi (Uffizi), commissioned in 1481 by the monks...
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Geology
Dictionary entry from: Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
...background sea in the Baptism of Christ (Uffizi, Florence), which he worked on with...is a sketch of the valley of the Arno (Uffizi). It displays similar characteristics...in the background to the Annuciation (Uffizi) are not unlike views from above Lake...
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Master of St Cecilia
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
...Italian painter named after the St Cecilia Altarpiece (Uffizi, Florence), which came from the church of S. Cecilia, Florence...have been attributed to him because of their resemblance to the Uffizi picture, the most important being the first scene and the three...
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Rovere
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
...and his wife Eleonora Gonzaga ( c. 1536–8, both Uffizi, Florence). Francesco Maria's son Guidobaldo della Rovere...of Titian and owned his celebrated Venus of Urbino (1538, Uffizi); the title is misleading, as the picture hung in the ducal...
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Lorenzetti, Pietro
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
...altarpieces of the Presentation in the Temple (1337–42, Uffizi, Florence) and the Annunciation (1344, Pinacoteca, Siena...dated altarpieces of the Virgin and Child Enthroned (1340, Uffizi) and the Birth of the Virgin (1342, Cathedral Mus., Siena...
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Buontalenti delle Girandole, Bernardo
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...best seen at the idio-syncratic Porta delle Suppliche in the Uffizi, Florence (1580)—where a broken segmental pediment...force of theatrical effects. He created the Tribuna in the Uffizi (1574–89), the decorations and lavish gardens...
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Vasari, Giorgio
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...x2013;74). There, he created his masterpiece, the Uffizi, the Government Offices of the Tuscan State (1560–...and Peruzzi 's Palazzo Massimo alle Colonne, Rome. The Uffizi buildings enclose a long piazzetta terminated at the river end...
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Andrea del Sarto
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
...painted superb altarpieces ( Madonna of the Harpies , 1517, Uffizi, Florence) and portraits ( A Young Man , c. 1517, NG, London...Renaissance (the best collection of his drawings is in the Uffizi). Certain features of his art foreshadow the Mannerist experiments...
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Sarto, Andrea del
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
...painted superb altarpieces ( Madonna of the Harpies , 1517, Uffizi, Florence) and portraits ( A Young Man , c. 1517, NG, London...Renaissance (the best collection of his drawings is in the Uffizi). Certain features of his art foreshadow the Mannerist experiments...
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