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Uffizi Gallery

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The Uffizi Gallery is a prominent art museum adjacent to the Piazza della Signoria in the historic center of Florence, in the Tuscany region of Italy. One of the most important and most visited Italian museums, and among the largest and best known in the world, it holds a collection of priceless works, particularly from the period of the Italian Renaissance.

Facts
Building Type
Art Museum 1
Location
Florence, Italy 1
Completed Year
1560 2
Completed Year
1581 1
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)
Museum 1
Connections

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Museum, Concepts

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

In Style

Mannerism, Styles and Movements

Giorgio Vasaris 1560s office block in Florence, a canonical work of architectural Mannerism.

Renaissance Architecture, Styles and Movements

A Renaissance-era landmark.

In the Other Atlases
  • Also in Geography Atlas: Italy, located there.
Sources
1. Uffizi Gallery (Wikipedia)
  • Wikipedia lead sentence (building type)
    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.
  • Wikipedia lead sentence (location)
    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.
  • Wikipedia body text (completion year)
    The construction was later continued by Alfonso Parigi and Bernardo Buontalenti; it was completed in 1581.
  • Entity description and the lead of the Wikipedia article
    The Uffizi Gallery is a prominent art museum adjacent to the Piazza della Signoria in the historic center of Florence, in the Tuscany region of Italy. One of the most important and most visited Italian museums, and among the largest and best known in the world, it holds a collection of priceless works, particularly from the period of the Italian Renaissance.
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2. Wikidata: Uffizi Gallery
  • Wikidata Q51252, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
  • Wikidata Q51252, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
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