ROME - 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 exhibition "Raffaello 1520 - 1483". The doors of the Roman exhibition space will reopen from 2 June, a date that should have sanctioned the conclusion of the review and which instead - coinciding with the celebrations for the Republic Day - will represent a new beginning for the event with which Italy makes tribute to the artist 500 years after his death.
The exhibition, suspended for about three months due to the coronavirus emergency, will remain open until 30 August, thanks to a long extension made possible thanks to the availability and solidarity of the museum institutions and collectors who have loaned 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 Infectious 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 Quirinale Stables ready to welcome visitors in the most scrupulous safety conditions, while offering the opportunity to enjoy such beauty and find the strength to start again in it. 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. "The 'Raffaello' exhibition is invaluable 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 never before was possible - explains the director of the Uffizi Eike Schmidt - Every effort to guarantee as many people as possible to enjoy this marvel, it is right: the Galleries are therefore happy to extend their loan of fifty masterpieces to this unique and epochal exhibition for as long as it will be necessary ".