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Covid 19 coronavirus: Italy s Uffizi discovers lost frescoes during shutdown
24 Apr, 2021 12:35 AM
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A full-length and life-size fresco depicting the young Cosimo II de Medici. Photo / AP
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The Uffizi Gallery in Florence used the winter Covid shutdown to push ahead with renovations, discovering lost frescoes that will greet visitors when the leading repository of Italian Renaissance art reopens on May 4.
Uffizi director Eike Schmidt said the six months of closure were put to good use: renovating 14 new rooms that will open to the public next month, and discovering frescoes that would otherwise have remained hidden.
But he hopes that the most recent reopening the third during the pandemic will be the last.
Lost frescoes to greet visitors when Italy s Uffizi reopens
COLLEEN BARRY, Associated Press
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1of3In this photo made available Thursday, April 22, 2021, a full-length and life-size fresco depicting the young Cosimo II de Medici, with the allegories of Florence and Siena, to be attributed to the painter Bernardino Poccetti (1548-1612) is seen on a wall after renovation works in the underground of the Uffizi Gallery, in Florence, Italy, Friday, April 16, 2021 . Recently discovered frescoes and new rooms filled with statuary will give visitors “a glorious introduction” Florence’s Uffizi Galleries when the museum reopens after months of COVID closure. Starting with the reopening, visitors will enter the museum from the west wing, facing the Arno River, where workers restoring galleries have discovered hidden beneath plaster and on ceilings frescoes dating from the 17th and 18th centuries. (Uffizi Gallery via AP)APShow MoreShow Less
Eike Schmidt. Courtesy Uffizi Galleries.
Florence’s Uffizi Gallery is looking to share its wealth. The museum is launching a new program called “Uffizi Diffusi” Italian for “scattered Uffizi” to exhibit works from its renowned collection of Renaissance masterpieces at as many as 100 sites across the greater Tuscany region.
“Art can’t survive on big galleries alone,” director Eike Schmidt told CNN Travel. “We need multiple exhibition spaces all over the region especially in the places where the art itself was born.”
With the ongoing pandemic preventing the institution from welcoming its normal 12,000 visitors a day, Schmidt hopes to “create a different type of tourism,” that will also serve to “ground culture in people’s daily lives.” Uffizi Diffusi would also provide an opportunity to show some of the thousands of pieces in the museum’s collection that are currently relegated to storage facilities ”bring[ing] to light works of art that currently
Covid-19: Italy s museums see 75 per cent drop in visitors in 2020
11 Feb, 2021
State museums in Italy take in €60 million last year compared to €240 million in 2019.
Italy s state museums witnessed an average decrease of 75 per cent in visitors in 2020, due to the fall-off in tourists and lockdowns related to covid-19, according to the Italian culture ministry.
State museums and archaeological sites also suffered a major drop in ticket sales last year, taking in €60 million compared to €240 million the year before.
Il Sole 24 Ore, appeared originally in an article published by the weekly magazine
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Specifically, the findings showed that the Archaeological Park of Pompeii recorded a drop in visitors of 85 per cent, the Colosseum by 80 per cent, the Archaeological Museum of Reggio Calabria by 75 per cent, the Egyptian Museum in Turin and the Uffizi Galleries in Florence by 70 per cent, the Gallerie dell Accademia in Venice by 68 per cent.