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As a patron, maxi donation of 4.5 million euros to the Uffizi Galleries

2023-03-10T12:35:15.188Z


A maxi donation of 4.8 million dollars, equal to approximately 4.5 million euros, from the US patron Veronika Atkins to the Uffizi Galleries in Florence, which will be used to completely restore the Amphitheater of the Boboli Gardens, in the am ... (ANSA)


(ANSA) - FLORENCE, MARCH 10 - A maxi donation of 4.8 million dollars, equal to about 4.5 million euros, from the US patron Veronika Atkins to the Uffizi Galleries in Florence, which will be used to completely restore the Amphitheater of the Garden of Boboli, as part of the 'Boboli 2030' program to relaunch Medici greenery.


    This is, the Uffizi Galleries underline in a note, the largest payment ever made by a private individual to a Florentine museum.

The restoration work on the Boboli amphitheater will begin in the next few months and will last between two and three years.

Veronica Atkins is one of the best known sponsors and patrons in the world in the field of music, but not only, and in recent years her support activity for the Uffizi Galleries has grown.


    Through the Friends of the Uffizi Galleries, Atkins financed the restoration of the Terrace of Geographical Maps in the Uffizi, the Valois tapestry series in the Florentine museum and the Sala di Bona in Palazzo Pitti.

Last October he gave away one of the best pianos in the world for concerts in the Sala Bianca of the former Medici palace.


    "The Boboli Amphitheater project unites my three greatest loves - underlines Atkins -: nature, art and music. I can't wait to attend the premiere of the opera which will resonate in this magical and unique place in the world at the end of the restorations".

"Thanks to the generosity of Veronica Atkins, one of the key projects of the Boboli 2030 initiative will see the light - observes the director of the Galleries Eike Schmidt -: the Boboli Amphitheater, which will recover its function as an open-air theater, right in the city where the melodrama and the lyrical lady. Soon we will see the best singers perform here again".

(HANDLE).


Source: ansa

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