Topic - Uffizi Gallery

The Uffizi Gallery is a prominent art museum adjacent to the Piazza della Signoria in the Historic Centre of Florence in the region of Tuscany, Italy. One of the most important Italian museums and the most visited, it is also one of the largest and best-known in the world and holds a collection of priceless works, particularly from the period of the Italian Renaissance. - Source: Wikipedia

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This picture made available Tuesday, June 16, 2026 shows a view of the renovated and refurbished Botticelli rooms, with Renaissance master Sandro Botticelli's paintings: "Spring ", center, "Madonna of the Rose Garden", left and "Madonna in glory with Seraphim" displayed at Florence's Uffizi Galleries, Italy. (Press Office of the Uffizi Gallery Museum via AP)

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In this photo made available Thursday, April 22, 2021, a full-length and life-size fresco depicting the young Cosimo II de 'Medici, with the allegories of Florence and Siena, to be attributed to the painter Bernardino Poccetti (1548-1612) is seen on a wall after renovation works in the underground of the Uffizi Gallery, in Florence, Italy, Friday, April 16, 2021 . Recently discovered frescoes and new rooms filled with statuary will give visitors “a glorious introduction” Florence’s Uffizi Galleries when the museum reopens after months of COVID closure. Starting with the reopening, visitors will enter the museum from the west wing, facing the Arno River, where workers restoring galleries have discovered hidden beneath plaster and on ceilings frescoes dating from the 17th and 18th centuries. (Uffizi Gallery via AP)

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FILE- In this Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017 file photo, people line up to enter in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. The Gallery says lightning struck the museum overnight, setting off alarms that drew both firefighters and anti-terror police. No damage was caused to artwork. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis, File)

Lightning strikes Uffizi Gallery in Florence, no art damaged

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In this photo taken on Friday, March 31, 2017, Uffizi Gallery director Eike Schmidt looks at the painting ‘’The Miracle of San Filippo,’’ depicting the future pope Benedict XIII surviving an earthquake in 1688, at the Uffizi Gallery, in Florence, Italy. The Uffizi Gallery is showing solidarity with the art-rich, quake-stricken Marche region with an exhibit of treasures saved from a series of earthquakes last year. Eike Schmidt said during a walk-through Friday after the first meeting of culture ministers form the Group of Seven industrialized nations that the 29 selected works were from churches, museums and other buildings either damaged or destroyed in powerful quakes last August and October. (AP Photo/Colleen Barry)

Uffizi Gallery shows treasures saved from last year’s quakes

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