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In this photo made available Thursday, April 22, 2021, a full-length and life-size fresco depicting the young Cosimo II de 'Medici, with the allegories of Florence and Siena, to be attributed to the painter Bernardino Poccetti (1548-1612) is seen on a wall after renovation works in the underground of the Uffizi Gallery, in Florence, Italy, Friday, April 16, 2021 . Recently discovered frescoes and new rooms filled with statuary will give visitors “a glorious introduction” Florence’s Uffizi Galleries when the museum reopens after months of COVID closure. Starting with the reopening, visitors will enter the museum from the west wing, facing the Arno River, where workers restoring galleries have discovered hidden beneath plaster and on ceilings frescoes dating from the 17th and 18th centuries. (Uffizi Gallery via AP)

Italy’s Uffizi discovers lost frescoes during COVID shutdown

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

FILE- In this Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2017 file photo, people line up to enter in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. The Gallery says lightning struck the museum overnight, setting off alarms that drew both firefighters and anti-terror police. No damage was caused to artwork. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis, File)

Lightning strikes Uffizi Gallery in Florence, no art damaged

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

Italy’s Uffizi encourages longer visits with new pricing

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Friday, March 31, 2017, Uffizi Gallery director Eike Schmidt looks at the painting ‘’The Miracle of San Filippo,’’ depicting the future pope Benedict XIII surviving an earthquake in 1688, at the Uffizi Gallery, in Florence, Italy. The Uffizi Gallery is showing solidarity with the art-rich, quake-stricken Marche region with an exhibit of treasures saved from a series of earthquakes last year. Eike Schmidt said during a walk-through Friday after the first meeting of culture ministers form the Group of Seven industrialized nations that the 29 selected works were from churches, museums and other buildings either damaged or destroyed in powerful quakes last August and October. (AP Photo/Colleen Barry)

Uffizi Gallery shows treasures saved from last year’s quakes

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press