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At the Uffizi. Nevertheless, the most important museum in Florence and one of the most visited in the world, has reopened the temporary exhibition “Florence and Europe. Furthermore, Arts of the eighteenth century at the Uffizi”. In addition, The exhibition had been suspended at the end of June after a man had stumbled. In addition, had made a gash on a painting: now new protections for the works, higher than the previous ones, have been installed in the environments of the exhibition.
On June 21. Nevertheless, a man who was visiting the Uffizi had lost his balance in front of the “Portrait of Ferdinando de ‘Medici Grand Prince of Tuscany”, by Anton Domenico Gabbiani, damaging him. Furthermore, Most of the Italian media had written that the person involved. Meanwhile, who had been denounced by the museum, had stumbled while trying to uffizi florence there new protections take a selfie. Nevertheless, Then a video had been released showing the moment of damage. and it did not seem at all that the man had a phone in his hand.
From the video it appeared that he was actually posing. but the woman who was with him did not seem in turn to have a phone or camera in his hand. The director of the Uffizi Galleries Simone Verde had however commented on the episode by denouncing too much ease of visitors “who come to museums to make memes. take selfies for social media”, and had suspended the exhibition until July 2. He had also promised to intervene to put “very precise limits. preventing behaviors that are not compatible with the meaning of our institutions and respect for cultural heritage”.
Silvia Barlacchi. one of the internal trade union representatives, of the CISL, had instead insisted on the fact that uffizi florence there new protections the visitor, taking a step back, had stumbled on the platform that served to keep the public far from the works also adding that it was not the first time that it happened and that the museum staff had already reported the danger to the galler’s administration: “Those those distant platforms are not suitable, especially because there are many people. They are low. they are dark and therefore not clearly visible and, beyond the individual case, those who look at the paintings risks not seeing them and stumbled. The steel barriers are perhaps uglier, but they protect the works better ».
An image from the exhibition “Florence and Europe. Eighteenth -century arts to the Uffizi” in which you can see the old uffizi florence there new protections protections (photos from the site of the Uffizi Galleries)
For the reopening of the exhibition. on July 2, new protections have been installed: they are metallic and golden, they arrive at the bottom of the lower edge of the exposed paintings, and distance visitors and visitors from the works. On the protections, it is written, in Italian and English, “Attention, do not rely on spacers”.
The exhibition, set up in the rooms on the ground floor of the gallery, will remain open until November 28th. In the meantime. the damaged picture has been removed to be restored and for now a work from 1690 by Niccolò Cassana, called Nicoletto, has been exhibited in its place, which always portrays Ferdinando de ‘Medici. From the Uffizi they let the restoration of Gabbiani’s work is almost completed. that the work “perfect, as it was before the accident” in a few days will return uffizi florence there new protections to display. They also know that the measures against the incorrect behaviors announced by the green director “are still being developed”.
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Uffizi florence there new protections
Further reading: Because this self -portrait by Annibale Carracci is one of the most brilliant in the whole history of art – Cagliari, inaugurated “Sa Passillara Daniela Zedda”.