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UFFIZI MUSEUMThe Uffizi Gallery (Italian: Galleria degli Uffizi) is a museum in Florence. It is one of the oldest and most famous art museums of the Western world.
Building of the palace was begun by Giorgio Vasari in 1560 for Cosimo I de' Medici as the offices for the Florentine magistrates, hence the name "uffizi" ("offices"). The Construction ended in 1581. Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany. planned to arrange prime works of art in the Medici collections on the piano nobile. This was realised by Francis I of Tuscany, who commissioned Buontalenti the famous Tribuna degli Uffizi that united a selection of the outstanding masterpieces in the collection in an ensemble. Over the years, further parts of the palace evolved into a display place for many of the paintings and sculpture collected by the Medici family or commissioned by them. After the house of Medici was extinguished, the art treasures remained in Florence and formed one of the first modern museums. The gallery in 1765 it was officially opened to the public. The New museum
Because of its huge collection, a project is currently underway to expand the museum's exhibition space in 2006 from some 6,000 sq.metres (64,000 sq.ft) to almost 13,000 sq.metres (139,000 sq.ft), allowing public viewing of many artworks that have usually been in storage. Main Masterpieces Hereafter a gallery of the Main Masterpieces contained in the Uffizi Museum. |
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