Raffaello alle Scuderie reopens on June 2nd

(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 18 - The public will soon be able to admire the splendor of Raphael's works, exceptionally gathered at the Scuderie del Quirinale on the occasion of the "Raffaello 1520 - 1483" exhibition. The doors of the Roman exhibition space will reopen from 2 June, a date that should have ensured the conclusion of the exhibition and that instead - in coincidence with the celebrations for the Republic Day - will represent a new beginning for the event with which the Italianiarends tribute to the artist 500 years after death.
    The exhibition, suspended for about three months due to the coronavirus emergency, will remain open until 30 August, due to a long extension made possible thanks to the availability and solidarity of the museum and de-collector institutions that have lent the works. The reopening will follow extraordinary safety measures, outlined in a specific technical-health project developed by an expert from the Department of Public Health and Infected Diseases of the Sapienza University and harmonized with the guidelines of the Scientific Technical Committee.
    "Let's start again. We reopen the doors of the Scuderie del Quirinale ready to welcome visitors in the most scrupulous safety conditions, while offering the opportunity to enjoy such beauty and find strength in it to start again. We are grateful to the Uffizi Galleries, to its director Eike Schmidt and to all the lenders who generously granted the opportunity to extend the dates of such an important exhibition for our country ", says Mario De Simoni, President and CEO of Ales - Scuderie del Quirinale. "Our 'Raffaello' has an inestimable value from an artistic point of view and offers the opportunity to admire a concentration of works by the Master from Urbino in the same context as it has never been possible to date - explains the director of the Uffizi Eike Schmidt - Every effort to guarantee as many as possible if it is possible to enjoy such a marvel, it is right: the Galleries are therefore happy to extend their loan of about fifty masterpieces to this unique and epochal exhibition for as long as necessary ". (HANDLE).