Uffizi
Proper noun
Meaning
the Uffizi
A major museum and art gallery in Florence, Italy.
Synonym: (officially) Uffizi Gallery
Examples
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.
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.
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).
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.
Sebastian (1515) - Oil on canvas, Alaffre Collection, Bezenas, France Image:Bartolommeo, Fra ~ Annunciation, 1500, oil tempera on wood, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.
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.