Raffaello: Mibact, go to the celebrations, flowers to the Pantheon

(ANSA) - ROME, APRIL 06 - The ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activities for Tourism on the 500th anniversary of the death of Raphael, which took place in Rome on April 6, 1520, opens the celebrations of the great artist from Urbino with a beam of field flowers and with the paper ones where the children wrote "It will be all right", which were deposited this morning in front of the tomb of Raphael at the Pantheon (https://twitter.com/_mibact/status/1247065125430968326?s=21). At 11 am a video will be broadcast on the Mibact YouTube channel, specially made by the Mibact press office, with contributions from experts and renowned scholars of the "Divin painter" focused on the theme of love: by Barbara Jatta, director of the Museums Vatican to Eike Schmidt, director of the Uffizi, to the actress Melania Mazzucco, by the restorer Antonio Forcellino to the art historian Marco Ciatti, director of the Opificiodelle Pietre Dure in Florence, to Marzia Faietti and Matteo Lanfranconi, curators of the exhibition on Raphael at the Scuderiedel Quirinale, by the historian of the art Claudio Strinati to Mario De Simoni, director of the Quirinale Stables. An intimate and passionate story of their personal and professional relationship with Raphael.
The day of celebrations will continue with a series of digital initiatives on social media and on the YouTube channel of the ministry where various videos on Raphael and his works will be uploaded. (HANDLE).