Works of Florentine, Emilian and Roman painting of the '500 never exhibited, recently acquired masterpieces and self-portraits collected over the centuries.
Thus the Uffizi Gallery reopens its doors to visitors with 14 new rooms and some novelties in the museum entrance path to dispose of the long queues of the pre-Covid era.
In total, with the reopening tomorrow, the Uffizi will inaugurate new spaces for over 2,000 square meters: there are 14 new exhibition halls on the first floor of the Gallery, up to now used for temporary exhibitions, or real closed rooms, and 22 rooms on the ground floor, restored and used for various entrance functions and services (cloakroom, changing rooms and technical rooms). There will be 129 additional works visible to the public in the gallery. They were in the warehouses, or they came from acquisitions or donations, some had not been exhibited for decades.
"All of us at the Uffizi - said the director Eike Schmidt - have carefully prepared the reopening that we can define as triumphal, and which will surprise the public with a series of masterpieces never seen before and others well known but exhibited in order to rediscover their meaning. Deeper". The new rooms will welcome visitors arriving from the second floor with works by Daniele da Volterra, Rosso Fiorentino, Andrea del Sarto, Parmigianino, Pontormo, Sebastiano del Piombo. Among these, the San Giovanni Battista by Rosso Fiorentino, part of the legacy of Professor Carlo Del Bravo, donated to the Uffizi in 2020; the Madonna delle Arpie by Andrea del Sarto presented on a sort of stone altar; Albertinelli's Visitation exhibited in such a way as to reconstruct the original layout of the altarpiece,with the predella below the main table.
The recent acquisitions of the museum are also protagonists: two paintings by Daniele da Volterra depicting the Holy Family with Santa Barbara and Elijah in the desert, to which is added the canvas representing 'Homer and the enigma of lice' by Bartolomeo Passerotti, exhibited for first time. For the Emilian art also the 'Madonna with the long neck' by Parmigianino. Among the novelties is the marble corridor, where, seated on a long bench, visitors can admire ancient reliefs, some of which have never been exhibited in recent decades. Finally, the last room was conceived as a taste of the spaces that will soon welcome the self-portraits collected over the centuries, with works by Bernini, Cigoli, Chagall, Guttuso, among others. "With these rooms - commented the president of Tuscany,Eugenio Giani - the Uffizi are proposing new offers that are the driving force behind the recovery of Tuscany. "There are also logistical innovations: now the ticket will be distributed in the halls of the western wing of the Uffizi where there will be a new cloakroom for groups. the Galleria will be opposite the ground floor of the Levante wing. "With these 2,000 square meters more - said Mayor Dario Nardella - we are getting closer and closer to the final goal of the Grandi Uffizi, a museum that will triple its surface and double services".entrance to the Gallery will be located opposite the ground floor of the Levante wing. "With these 2,000 square meters more - said Mayor Dario Nardella - we are getting closer and closer to the final goal of the Grandi Uffizi, a museum that will triple its surface and double its services".entrance to the Gallery will be located opposite the ground floor of the Levante wing. "With these 2,000 square meters more - said Mayor Dario Nardella - we are getting closer and closer to the final goal of the Grandi Uffizi, a museum that will triple its surface and double its services".