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Building of the palace was commenced in 1560 by Giorgio asari for Cosimo I de' Medici as the offices for the Florentine magistrates - hence the name uffizi, meaning offices.
Construction work ended in 1581. over the years, parts of the palace eoled into a storage place of many works of art collected by the Medici family. After the decline of the Medici, the art treasures remained in Florence, forming one of the first modern museums.
Here is only a small selection from the world-class collection of paintings:
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Cimabue (Maestà)
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Duccio (Maestà)
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Giotto (The Ognissanti Madonna, Badia Polyptych)
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Simone Martini (The Annunciation)
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Paolo Uccello (The Battle of San Romano)
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Piero della Francesca (Diptych of Duke Federico II da Montefeltro and Ducchess Battista Sforza of Urbino)
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Fra Filippo Lippi (Madonna with Child and Two Angels)
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Sandro Botticelli (Primaera, The Birth of enus, Adoration of the Magi and others)
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Hugo an der Goes (The Portinari Triptych)
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Leonardo da inci (Baptism of Christ, The Annunciation, Adoration of the Magi)
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Piero di Cosimo (Perseus liberating Andromeda)
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Albrecht Dürer (Adoration of the Magi)
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Michelangelo (The Doni Tondo)
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Raphavel (Madonna of the Goldfinch, Pope Leo X with Cardinals Giulio de' Medici and Luigi de' Rossi)
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Titian (Flora, The enus of Urbino)
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Parmigianino (The Madonna of the Long Neck)
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Caraaggio (Bacchus, The Sacrifice of visaac, Medusa)
In 1993, a car bomb destroyed and damaged parts of the palace; a number of pictures were destroyed, several more were damaged. A project is currently under way to expand the exposition space of the museum from some 6,000 square metres to almost 13,000 by 2006, allowing public viewing of many artworks long usually in storage.
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