The Uffizi Gallery will shortly open ten new spaces, dedicated to 16th-century painters, mainly from Tuscany, from Andrea del Sarto to Bronzino and Raffaello. There will also be a gallery with Hellenistic sculptures. The new spaces, a statement reads, will open ”in the coming months.”
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May 1st: Uffizi, Palazzo Davanzati and Boboli at 1 euro
If you are planning to visit Florence during the next week end, including the 30th of April and the 1st of May, International Workers Day, the Uffizi Gallery and the Accademia Gallery will be exceptionally open on Monday April 30th and on May 1st the Bargello Museum, Palazzo Davanzati and the Boboli Garden will allow the entrance at a special price of 1 euro.
Reinassence masters from Uffizi to Michener Museum
For the first time ever, a selection of 45 paintings and tapestries from the famed Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, is coming to the James A. Michener Art Museum, US. About 45 minutes northeast of the city and can be reached conveniently from New York City or Washington DC. The exhibition “Offering of the Angels: Treasures from the Uffizi Gallery” is opened April 21, 2012 through August 10, 2012.
Open day at the Uffizi Library with 78,600 titles
Today, Friday, March 30 the Uffizi Library will be open for an Open Day from 2 to 5 pm. During the extraordinary opening to the general public, the staff will be on hand to listen to the history of the Library and its collections and let see some of the most significant works, watch the process of binding of a book or a periodical collection, learn about the life of a magazine in the library, see the evolution of the book through time.
The Int’l gothic style at the Uffizi gallery
This year, the rooms on the main floor of the Galleria degli Uffizi will host an important exhibition that intends to reconstruct the panorama of Florentine art in the wonderful and crucial period that extended roughly from 1375 to 1440. It will be held from June 19th to November 4th, 2012 at the Galleria degli Uffizi.
Uffizi, the tapestries and the precious fabrics
The tapestries exhibition (20 March – 3 June, 2012) purposes to acquaint Uffizi Gallery goers with a precious section of its collections, one whose old and noble fame has been declining due to a decades-long absence from areas open to the public. Much more than other manufactures, tapestries are works of art relentlessly consumed by time.
Uffizi, free entrance for women on March 8
On the occasion of International Women’s Day on March 8: free entrance for women to all public art sites as Uffizi or Galleria dell’Accademia. But from 17 January 2012, for a period of approximately three months, the Chapter Room, in the Uffizi gallery, with the fresco of the Crucifixion by Beato Angelico, will be closed to the public for extraordinary maintenance work.
Uffizi, Italian chiaroscuro woodcuts open ’til April 22
«As if Made with the Brush» Italian Chiaroscuro Woodcuts from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century goes on. The exhibition at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, should have closed on 11 March, but – given the success – has been extended until April 22, 2012.
Revealed secrets of the Medusa by Caravaggio
Extraordinary pictures showed unequivocally the genesis and the timing of the “First Medusa” by Caravaggio. This masterpiece anticipates the most famous “shield” exhibited at the Galleria degli Uffizi. This is the work presented at the Foreign Press Association headquarters in Rome by art historian Mina Gregori and some university professors.
The Uffizi Gallery opens a new path for the blind
The Uffizi has opened a dedicated path for the blind, with 16 sculptures “readable” with hands. The new path, called “Uffizi by touching”, is completely free for blind people or visually impaired.