Statue of Piero Capponi, 1447-96, Italian statesman, on the facade of the Galleria degli Uffizi, or Uffizi Gallery, an art museum adjacent to the Piazza della Signoria in Florence, Tuscany, Italy. The Uffizi building was begun by Giorgio Vasari in 1560 for Cosimo I de' Medici and completed by Alfonso Parigi and Bernardo Buontalenti in 1581. The historic centre of Florence is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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