Proper noun
the Uffizi
A major museum and art gallery in Florence, Italy.
Synonym: (officially) Uffizi Gallery
I like my name. My parents were in the Uffizi Gallery looking at a Leonardo Da Vinci when my mom felt me kick. That's how I got my name. My parents were real hippies. Leonardo DiCaprio
Cosimo in turn patronized Vasari who erected the Uffizi Gallery in 1560 and founded the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno – ("Academy of the Arts of Drawing") in 1563. Source: Internet
Masolino & Masaccio, Virgin and Child with Saint Anne (c. 1424), Uffizi The second work was perhaps Masaccio's first collaboration with the older and already-renowned artist, Masolino da Panicale (1383/4-c. 1436). Source: Internet
Professional life, 1476–1513 The Adoration of the Magi (1481), Uffizi Florentine court records of 1476 show that Leonardo and three other young men were charged with sodomy but acquitted; homosexual acts were illegal in Renaissance Florence. Source: Internet
Sebastian (1515) - Oil on canvas, Alaffre Collection, Bezenas, France Image:Bartolommeo, Fra ~ Annunciation, 1500, oil tempera on wood, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. Source: Internet
Portrait of the Duke of Marlborough by Adriaen van der Werff (December 1704) Uffizi Whilst Allied preparations had progressed, the French were striving to maintain and re-supply Marshal Marsin. Source: Internet