Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy, 1927. One of the oldest and most famous art museums in the world, the Uffizi Gallery is housed in the Palazzo degli Uffizi (Uffizi Palace) designed by Giorgio Vasari for Cosimo I de' Medici, Duke of Florence, and built between 1560 and 1581. The collections were first opened to the public in 1765. From Italien in Bildern, by Eugen Poppel [August Scherl, Berlin, 1927]
