Uffizi

/ (juːˈfɪtsɪ) /

noun

an art gallery in Florence; built by Giorgio Vasari in the 16th century and opened as a museum in 1765: contains chiefly Italian Renaissance paintings

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Example sentences from the Web for uffizi

The Uffizi bones could give vital clues to earlier pandemics on the peninsula.
The Uffizi’s Secret Mass Grave|Barbie Latza Nadeau|February 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Housed near the Uffizi Gallery, in one of the most culturally rich cities in the world, the museum has some highfalutin neighbors.
Night at the Gucci Museum|Robin Givhan|September 27, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Another now in the Uffizi is a most life-like portrait of sombre colouring, but not highly finished.
Fra Bartolommeo and Andrea D'Agnolo|Leader Scott
As they drove home they stopped at the flower market in the arcades of the Uffizi, and bore home their Easter flowers.
The Four Corners Abroad|Amy Ella Blanchard

We spent two hours in the Uffizi yesterday looking at all the old friends again.
Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Life|Mary Alsop King Waddington
There is nothing of him now in Florence, save a few drawings in the Uffizi and an unfinished picture of the Epiphany.
The Story of Florence|Edmund G. Gardner
I should think so,—the Pitti Palace tumbling into his small receptacle on the top of the Uffizi.
Passages From the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 2|Nathaniel Hawthorne

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