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	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Uffizi Gallery
		A Patron for Lorenzo Monaco's Uffizi: Coronation of the Virgin.
		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.
		Uffizi gallery left in the dark as state funds fail to materialise.(Foreign News)
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	Uffizi Gallery - Vacation Idea.com
		The Uffizi gallery is home to numerous famous art works such as the Birth of Venus and the Primavera by Botticelli, The Annunciation by Leonardo da Vinci as well as works by Michelangelo, Titian and Rubens.
		The Uffizi gallery was originally designed around 1560 by Giorgio Vasari as special offices for the Duke Cosimo I of the Medici family.
		The gallery is rectangular in shape, beginning at the Signoria Palace and stretching to the Arno river.
	www.vacationidea.com /florence/uffizi.html (405 words)

	Signoria Square and Uffizi Gallery
		The Uffizi Gallery is undoubtedly one of the most important and most famous art galleries in the world as far as Italian art is concerned.
		It was through the intervention of Cardinal Leopoldo that the Venetian paintings arrived at the Gallery, whilst during the period 1600 to 1700 Cosimo III added the Flemish paintings and numerous statues acquired whilst in Rome to the collection.
		The Duke of Lorena reorganised the art gallery towards the end of the century, but it wasn't until the 1900's that the Uffizi Gallery became the vast and complete collection of art works that it is today, thanks to the addition of pieces from the 1300's and 1400's.
	www.firenze-hotel-framon.com /Galleria_Uffizi.htm (529 words)

	The Uffizi Gallery, Florence
		The Uffizi building that is now seat of the Gallery was built in the mid-sixteenth century by the architect Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) in a period when Cosimo I de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, was bureaucratically consolidating this recently acquired position.
		In addition to paintings, the Uffizi exhibits a fine collection of Roman sculptures (portraits, emperors and divinities) that are displayed in the corridors decorated with frescoed and sculptured ceilings of the 16th and 17th centuries.
		Its acquisition significantly enriches the patrimony of the Uffizi.
	www.firenzeclick.com /Florence-guide/Uffizi-Gallery.htm (1091 words)

	Telegraph \| Travel \| Italy: How to visit the Uffizi Gallery
		The galleries themselves were built by Vasari for Cosimo I as administrative offices (uffizi), and also to provide a covered route (the Vasari Corridor) some half a mile long, from the Palazzo Vecchio in the city centre to the Pitti Palace on the far bank of the Arno.
		The walls are hung with the Gallery's remarkable collection of self-portraits, which range from Bronzino to Ingres, and the corridor also has superb views of the river and the city.
		Uffizi Gallery (29 euros/£20.60) has good reproductions and is a better souvenir edition, but too weighty to take around the galleries.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /travel/main.jhtml?xml=/travel/2003/11/15/etuffizi15.xml (2067 words)

	Florence - The Uffizi Gallery
		WE begin our review of the Public Galleries with the Uffizi, as it contains the works of artists from the eleventh to the seventeenth centuries, and thus illustrates the history of art, from the revival to the decline.
		The corridor, extending along three sides of the Gallery, is lined with sarcophagi, statues, and busts, as well as pictures deserving notice, though, with few exceptions, inferior, as works of art, to those contained in the adjoining rooms.
		It is a feeble production, and only deserves notice because by the hand of one who, in his best days, was considered a worthy representative of the school, and who possessed the qualities of a diligent colourist and a fair copyist of his master (Perugino), as regards type and proportion, drawing and colour.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles26/florence-21.shtml (3754 words)

	Uffizi Gallery -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		These galleries were expanded in the 17th century by the grand duke Ferdinand II and his brother, Cardinal Leopoldo, who collected the artist self-portraits later exhibited in the Vasari corridor connecting the Uffizi and the Pitti Palace.
		Beginning with the Uffizi Gallery, however, buildings and galleries were planned especially for the display of art and scientific collections.
		The Uffizi's layout of galleries with interconnecting rooms was widely followed through the end of the 19th century.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9074100?tocId=9074100 (1087 words)

	Florence Museums Uffizi Gallery, Vasarian Corridor
		Giorgio Vasari was commissioned by the Grand-duke Cosimo I de Medici to built the complex of the Uffizi in 1560 to house the administrative offices of the city.
		Today the Uffizi Gallery is one of the most important museums of painting and sculture in the world where is possible to admire, in chronological succession, the Italian Painting of the 13th-14th, 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th century including works by Giotto, Piero della Francesca, Filippo Lippi, Botticelli, Mantegna, Leonardo, Raffaello, Michelangelo and Caravaggio.
		Following the construction of the Uffizi, Cosimo I commissioned the Vasari "secret" corridor to connect the political center of the city with Palazzo Pitti, the new grand-ducal residence on the other side of the Arno.
	www.inflorencetoday.com /museums/uffizigallery.htm (325 words)

	The Uffizi Gallery - Florence
		The building that is now seat of the Gallery was built in the mid-sixteenth century by the architect Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) in a period when Cosimo I de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, was bureaucratically consolidating this recently acquired position.
		Continuing along the rooms on the western side of the Gallery, it is possible to admire more 16th century masterpieces, starting from the "Tondo Doni" by Michelangelo, the Madonna of the goldfinch by Raphael and the Venus of Urbino and Flora by Titian.
		The project for the “New Uffizi gallery”, which is already underway, will significantly alter the original layout of the museum, doubl ing the exhibition rooms.
	www.italytraveller.com /salsa/en/card.html?web1_id=489&area=florence (1121 words)

	Uffizi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Uffizi Gallery (Italian: Galleria degli Uffizi) is a palace or palazzo in Florence, holding one of the oldest and most famous art museums in the world.
		The gallery had been open to visitors on request since the 16th century and in 1765 it was officially opened to the public.
		Because of the its huge collection, some of its works have in the past been transferred to other museums in Florence, such as some famous statues to the Bargello.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Uffizi (403 words)

	Print Article: Uffizi Gallery ready to join the big league (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Italy is to try to turn the Uffizi Gallery in Florence into Europe's premier art museum, with an ambitious €56 million ($90 million) scheme to double its exhibition space.
		By the time work is completed, visitors to the extensively remodelled Uffizi will be able to see 800 new works, including many now confined to the gallery's storerooms for lack of space.
		Roberto Cecchi, the government official in charge of the project, said on Wednesday the biggest problem faced by his team was "inserting a museum into a building that is itself a monument".
	www.smh.com.au /cgi-bin/common/popupPrintArticle.pl?path=/articles/2004/02/27/1077676972305.html (318 words)

	Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Uffizi Gallery, the chief public gallery of Florence.
		The nucleus of the collection derives from the collections of the Medici family, and the Uffizi Palace was begun by Vasari in 1560 for Cosimo I, Grand Duke of Tuscany.
		The Uffizi collection on the other hand was enriched by early Italian paintings resulting from suppressions of churches and monasteries and confiscations of religious property.
	www.wga.hu /database/museums/uffizi.html (284 words)

	Florence Art Guide
		The Gallery of the Uffizi was also the first museum ever to be opened to the public: in fact the Grand Duke granted permission to visit it on request from the year 1591.
		However it was his son Francesco I who was responsible for starting to turn the palace into a museum in 1581, when he closed the second floor Gallery with huge windows and arranged part of the grand-ducal collection of classical statues, medals, jewellery, weapons, paintings and scientific instruments here.
		In actual fact the Uffizi owns about 4.800 works, the remainder of which are either in storage or on loan to other museums.
	www.mega.it /eng/egui/monu/ufu.htm (285 words)

	Uffizi Gallery - tips by travel authority Howard Hillman
		The many world famous paintings in the Uffizi Gallery include Botticelli's "Birth of Venus" (see picture), Leonardo da Vinci's "Annunciation", Michelangelo's "Holy Family", Raphael's "Madonna with a Goldfinch" and Titian's "Venus of Urbino".
		The Uffizi Gallery is closely linked with the rich Medici Family who ruled the region for centuries.
		They constructed the Uffizi building in the mid-1550s to house government administrative offices ("uffizi" in Italian, hence the museum's name).
	www.hillmanwonders.com /uffizi/uffizi_gallery.htm (180 words)

	The Uffizi Gallery of Florence, Italy
		One of the most famous museums in the world, Florence’s Uffizi Gallery is an impressive and friendly structure on the east side of the city.
		The main courtyard of the gallery, where the waiting area is, is adorned with approximately 30 statues of famous Italians throughout time.
		The actual hall of the gallery is the best example of this, filled to the brim with some of the most gorgeous busts and sculptures anywhere in the world.
	ks.essortment.com /uffizigalleryf_rbij.htm (722 words)

	The Uffizi Gallery
		The Uffizi Palace was constructed in the mid- sixteenth century by the architect Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) in the period when Cosimo de' Medici, first Grand Duke of Tuscany, was bureaucratically consolidating his recent takeover of power.
		Apart from its paintings, the Uffizi exhibits ancient Roman sculpture and sixteenth century sculpture; these are all seen in the three corridors whose ceilings are frescoed with grotesques.
		Italian and French eighteenth century paintings are preserved in the Gallery's last room and include Tiepolo, Guardi, Nattier, Chardin and Goya, all representing the finest art of the late eighteenth century and the early nineteenth.
	www.arca.net /db/musei/uffizi.htm (1022 words)

	Florence - Uffizi Gallery - Engravings
		A LARGE door next the entrance to the small corridor opens on a flight of stairs, leading to the passage which connects the Uffizi with the Pitti.
		On a landing of the stair-case is a woodcut of immense size representing the Deposition from the Cross, after a picture by Alessandro Casolani, of Sienna (1552-1606).
		The artist adopted this composition for part of his picture of the Worship of the Magi, now in the Tribune of the Uffizi Gallery.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles26/florence-30.shtml (3333 words)

	MUSEI ONLINE - RISULTATO RICERCA MUSEO - (English) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Uffizi Gallery was commissioned by Francesco I de' Medici to Vasari who designed it in 1560 and completed it five years later.
		The Uffizi contain three of the most important paintings in the history of Italian art: the Madonna Rucellai, by Duccio di Boninsegna (1285); the Madonna of the Holy Trinity, by Cimabue (1280); and the Madonna of All Saints by Giotto (1310).
		The Uffizi Gallery did not undergo the requisitions of the French Revolution and in 1859, after the unification of Italy, it acquired national status.
	www.museionline.it /eng/cerca/museo.asp?id=3658 (600 words)

	Travel Weekly: Following bomb blast, Uffizi readies celebratory reopening. (Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy)(includes ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, is expected to open on Jun 20, 1993.
		The art museum is recovering from a bombing that damaged 24 rooms in a the May 27th attack and also destroyed a number of valuable Renaissance paintings.
		Destroyed in the blast were Gherrit van Honthorst's 'Adoration of the Shepherds' and Bartolomeo Manfredi's 'Ciclo Vito' and 'Buonavventura.' Other art works by Giotto, Rubens and Van Dyck were damaged and are in the process of being repaired.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:13986054&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (239 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Uffizi Gallery
		There are further important loans from the National Gallery, Washington, the Staatliche Museen in Berlin, the San Diego Museum of Art, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence and the Szpmvszeti Mzeum in Budapest.
		Among the galleries toured were the Uffizi gallery, which has a very extensive collection of original art treasures, and the Medici-Riccardi palace, an opulent building once owned by the Medici family of the Renaissance period.
		After we visited the Uffizi Gallery, I was stunned to read that the magnificent collection of art it contained is essentially a Medici family collection, presented today much as it had been 450 years ago.
	museums.surfwax.com /files/Uffizi_Gallery.html (1903 words)

	Kraft Hotel Florence - Uffizi Gallery
		Within the walls of the Uffizi, you can view many of the masterpieces of Italian art in one of the world's greatest public museums.
		The Uffizi is one of the best places to visit if you want to truly appreciate the evolution of painting.
		The Uffizi collection is both a delight to behold and a concentrated educational experience.
	www.krafthotel.it /english/itineraries/uffizi.html (1029 words)

	The Uffizi Gallery Museum
		The east wing of the Uffizi was where Francesco placed the beginnings of the Medicean collection that grew as the successors to the Medici family perpetuated his vision: the galleries were opened for viewing to Florentine families and visiting dignitaries.
		A corridor designed by Vasari crosses over the Arno to connect the Uffizi Gallery with the Pitti Palace, forming an artery that connects the two museum's histories and art works.
		Alexandra Bonfante-Warren's well-researched text speaks with authority of an insider privy to the workings of the Medici family as she brings to life the events and decisions that led this singular family—undeniably the greatest art patrons of Western European society—to build and share their incomparable collections of the world.
	www.hlla.com /catalog/uffizi.html (265 words)

	Museums in Florence: the Uffizi Gallery
		The most precious and famous group of paintings of the Uffizi are however represented by the works of the Italian Renaissance artists, although several sections of the museum are devoted to the works of foreign artists (German, Flemish, Dutch and French).
		In addition to paintings, the Uffizi exhibits a fine collection of Roman sculptures (portraits, emperors and divinities) that are displayed in the corridors decorated with frescoed and sculptured ceilings of the 16th and 17th centuries.
		Continuing along the rooms on the western side of the Gallery, it is possible to admire more 16th century masterpieces, starting trom the "Tondo Doni" by Michelangelo, the Madonna of the goldfinch by Raphael and the Venus of Urbin and Flora by Titian.
	www.aboutflorence.com /Museums-in-Florence/uffizi-gallery.html (1093 words)

	Florence Italy Museum: Things to see & do Uffizi Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Uffizi (Offices) was commissioned by Cosimo I in 1560 in order to have the magistrate and bureaucracy of the Grand Duchy close to the Palazzo Vecchio.
		It was Vasari who designed and orchestrated the project on the monumental courtyard, the square and street, dividing the whole area in order to create an harmonious and solemn unity, enriched by columns, niches, loggias, culminating upon the Arno river.
		In 1591 the first museum in the world of its type was born.
	www.goporta.com /florence/Uffizi.htm (280 words)

	Florence Museums - Uffizi Gallery - David Michelangelo - Palatine Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The Gallery of the Uffizi was also the first museum ever to be opened to the public: in fact the Grand Duke granted permission to visit it on request from the year 1591.
		The buildings assumed their present appearance in 1935, when the open loggia onto St. Mark's Square, was discovered (ascribed to eitherBrunelleschi or Michelozzo, but really a work by an anonymous architect of the end of the XIV century).
		Both the Academy Gallery and the future classrooms were designed and restructured in 1781 by Gaspare Maria Paoletti.
	www.florencewelcome.com /musei/musei-ing.htm (871 words)

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