Uffizi Gallery
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He feeds lire into a public scale and, shocked by the number, embarks on a starvation diet so extreme he winds up passing out near the Uffizi Gallery.
From Salon • Jul. 25, 2024
Other recent protests have involved activists blocking highway traffic in various parts of Italy, and gluing hands of activists to the protective glass of a Botticelli painting in the Uffizi Gallery.
From Washington Times • Dec. 7, 2023
While Greco is an Italian citizen, previous centre-left governments appointed high-profile foreigners to run a few of the country's most famous sites, including Florence's Uffizi Gallery, Pompeii and Milan's Pinacoteca di Brera.
From Reuters • Sep. 21, 2023
And in Italy, activists glued themselves to a sculpture held in the Vatican and to works in the Uffizi Gallery, in Florence.
From New York Times • Oct. 23, 2022
When Brooke left him at Florence, Green was openly glad to relapse into vagrant pilgrimage, to put aside his guide-book and to omit the daily visit to the Uffizi Gallery.
From Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies by Blore, George Henry
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