The American artist Bill Viola yesterday visited the Vasari Corridor inside Florence’s Uffizi Gallery and admired his self-portrait Submerged. In its Uffizi section the Vasari Corridor is used to exhibit the museum’s famous collection of self-portraits.
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The “Un anno ad arte 2014” exhibition series opens with all this and much more with the show entitled, Once in a Lifetime. Treasures from the Archives and Libraries of Florence, on the calendar from 28 January to 27 April 2014 and hosted in the Sala Bianca in Palazzo Pitti.
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Dozens of skeletons was found under the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. According to archaeologists, it was found a medieval mass grave near the renowned museum.
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Italian experts are closing in on conclusive evidence of the identity of the sitter for Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, one of the most iconic works in the history of art.
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As part of the celebrations to commemorate the four-hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the death of Michelangelo Buonarroti, the Galleria dell’Accademia of Florence in collaboration with Fratelli Alinari IDEA present an exhibition that deals with the complex theme of the renewed interest and admiration for the artist from the XIX century until today.
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There is a new famous testimonial for the return of Leonardo Da Vinci’s famous portrait, the Mona Lisa, to the city of Florence from the Louvre Museum in Paris. The american actor George Clooney warned that he would make the provocative call for the Mona Lisa to leave its French sanctuary
Read moreSplendid warriors from antiquity on display in Reggio CalabriaWorld-famous Riace Bronzes return to public eye. The 2,500-year-old Riace Bronzes are in a renovated Reggio Calabria National Archeological Museum following four years of restoration work stalled.
Read moreTwelve masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay: this extraordinary event is the result of an exchange between the two important French and Italian museum institutes
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Carbon-14 results on the remains of a woman thought to have sat for Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa painting are due within days. Art historical scholars now believe that model was Lisa Gherardini, wife to the merchant Francesco Del Giocondo, who died in the Florence convent on July 15, 1542.
Read morehe bronze doors of the Florence Baptistery, dubbed the “Gates of Paradise” by master Michelangelo, have equally ornate mates now being restored.
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