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Uffizi
Uffizi (It. ‘offices’) Chief public gallery in Florence, Italy, housing one of the greatest collections of Italian paintings. Giorgio
Vasari built the palace in the 16th century for the Grand Duke Cosimo I de' Medici, and it once housed government offices. Painters of the Florentine and other Italian schools are represented, with works by Piero della Francesca, Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian and many others, as well as Dutch and Flemish masters.
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Uffizi gallery left in the dark as state funds fail to materialise
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 11/21/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...a threat to cut off their power. The Uffizi museum in Florence, and many other institutions...In March, many museums, including the Uffizi, were granted "autonomy" from central...Paolucci, special superintendent at the Uffizi, "we would be in the red." Not only...
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The Uffizi's master juggler: there was outrage last year when Antonio Paolucci, the head of Florence's museums, appointed himself director of the Uffizi. In a rare interview, he explains to Carla Passino how he copes with both roles--and outlines his vision for the gallery's future.(Interview)
Magazine article from: Apollo; 3/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...then Antonio Paolucci, director of the Uffizi, soprintendente of Florence's museums...spread across 20 museums--from the Uffizi and the Galleria dell'Accademia to the...on the role of general director of the Uffizi. Former director Annamaria Petrioli Tofani...
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Italy's Uffizi Will Double Expansion Space
News Wire article from: AP Online; 2/24/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Giuliano Urbani waves outside Florence's Uffizi Gallery, Italy, Tuesday, Feb. 24 2004...present a new plan to revamp the Gallery. Uffizi is doubling the number of its exhibition...biggest art museum, starting in 2006 the Uffizi will offer art-lovers the opportunity...
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More artworks to go on display in ambitious Uffizi expansion
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 2/24/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...2004 Dateline: FLORENCE, Italy The Uffizi Gallery is doubling the number of its...drawing museum, starting in 2006 the Uffizi will offer art-lovers the opportunity...history-making project, for both the Uffizi and Italy," Culture Minister Giuliano...
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At the Uffizi: One architect's vision of airiness is an art critic's bed frame
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 8/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...lovers as they take their leave of the Uffizi and the gallery's priceless treasures...small square around the corner from the Uffizi's portico where tourists wait in blocks...Botticelli and other artistic giants. Uffizi's director, Anna Maria Petrioli Tofani...
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Car Bomb Blast Damages Florence's Uffizi Gallery; Explosion Kills 5; Glass Shields Save Most Paintings
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 5/28/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...several masterpieces at the heavily damaged Uffizi Gallery. At least 26 people were injured...building that abuts the west wing of the Uffizi, which houses the world's most important...Atlanta. "At least we got to see the Uffizi." Tension has mounted in Italy over...
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Uffizi works reveal artists' self-images
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 7/24/1988; ; 700+ words
; ...Painters by Painters: Portraits from the Uffizi Gallery," featuring 30 self-portraits from the Uffizi in Florence, Italy. The show here is part...collection of self-portraits, and the Uffizi Gallery, which houses one of the oldest...
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Uffizi renovation moves fitfully forward
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 2/7/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...sign yet that the reconstruction of the Uffizi Gallery here may really, finally, actually...years have passed since the lower of the Uffizi's two grand floors was emptied of a...said Annamaria Petrioli Tofani, a former Uffizi director who is among the dissenters to...
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The Uffizi, a year after.
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 9/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...and the whole of the west wing of the Uffizi Gallery. While the staunch Florentines...there was concern for the fate of the Uffizi, where incredulity gave way to dismay...Maria Petrioli Tofani, curator of the Uffizi Gallery, still grieves for the tragedy...
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Museum design center of controversy; Uffizi in Florence: Architect rejects compromise for the canopy and the project is in limbo
Newspaper article from: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque); 8/5/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...lovers as they take their leave of the Uffizi and the gallery's priceless treasures...small square around the corner from the Uffizi's portico where tourists wait in blocks...is: "Thanks to the fighting over the Uffizi exit, that ancient cliche that sees Italians...
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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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Sandro Botticelli
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...his paintings, e.g., Fortitude (Uffizi), St. Augustine (Ognissanti), and Portrait of a Young Man (Uffizi). He was one of the greatest colorists...figures in the Adoration of the Magi (Uffizi). In 1481 Pope Sixtus IV asked him...
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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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Leonardo da Vinci
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art
...Verrocchio's Baptism of Christ ( c. 1470, Uffizi, Florence), and the head of the angel...an exquisite Annunciation ( c. 1473, Uffizi), generally regarded as his earliest...altarpiece of the Adoration of the Magi (Uffizi), commissioned in 1481 by the monks...
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Pollaiuolo
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...versions exist of Hercules and the Hydra (Uffizi); a painting and a bronze statuette of Hercules and Antaeus (both: Uffizi); and Hercules and Deianira (Yale...independent works. They include the Virtues (Uffizi) and Coronation of the Virgin in the...
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