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  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 29 JUNE 2016: The new director of the Uffizi Gallery Eike Schmidt poses for a portait in the "Michelangelo and the Florentines" room at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, on June 29th 2016.<br />
<br />
Art historian Eike Schmidt, former curator and head of the Department of Sculpture, Applied Art and Textiles at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, became the first non-Italian director of the Uffizi in August 2015, replacing Antonio Natali who directed the gallery for 9 years. One of the main goals of the new director is to open the Vasari Corridor to the general public. Currently the corridor can only be visited with group reservations made by external tour and travel agencies throughout the year.<br />
<br />
The Vasari Corridor is is a 1-kilometer-long (more than half mile) elevated enclosed passageway which connects the Palazzo Vecchio with the Palazzo Pitti, passing through the Uffizi Gallery and crossing the Ponte Vecchio above the Arno River, in Florence. The passageway was designed and built in 1564 by Giorgio Vasari in only 6 months to allow Cosimo de’ Medici and other Florentine elite to walk safely through the city, from the seat of power in Palazzo Vecchio to their private residence, Palazzo Pitti. The passageway contains over 1000 paintings, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, including the largest and very important collection of self-portraits by some of the most famous masters of painting from the 16th to the 20th century, including Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Delacroix and Ensor.
    CIPG_20160725_NYT-Uffizi_5M3_9735.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 29 JUNE 2016: The new director of the Uffizi Gallery Eike Schmidt is here in the Vasari Corridor by the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, on June 29th 2016.<br />
<br />
Art historian Eike Schmidt, former curator and head of the Department of Sculpture, Applied Art and Textiles at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, became the first non-Italian director of the Uffizi in August 2015, replacing Antonio Natali who directed the gallery for 9 years. One of the main goals of the new director is to open the Vasari Corridor to the general public. Currently the corridor can only be visited with group reservations made by external tour and travel agencies throughout the year.<br />
<br />
The Vasari Corridor is is a 1-kilometer-long (more than half mile) elevated enclosed passageway which connects the Palazzo Vecchio with the Palazzo Pitti, passing through the Uffizi Gallery and crossing the Ponte Vecchio above the Arno River, in Florence. The passageway was designed and built in 1564 by Giorgio Vasari in only 6 months to allow Cosimo de’ Medici and other Florentine elite to walk safely through the city, from the seat of power in Palazzo Vecchio to their private residence, Palazzo Pitti. The passageway contains over 1000 paintings, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, including the largest and very important collection of self-portraits by some of the most famous masters of painting from the 16th to the 20th century, including Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Delacroix and Ensor.
    CIPG_20160629_NYT-Uffizi_5M3_4485.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 29 JUNE 2016: The new director of the Uffizi Gallery Eike Schmidt poses for a portait in the "Michelangelo and the Florentines" room at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, on June 29th 2016.<br />
<br />
Art historian Eike Schmidt, former curator and head of the Department of Sculpture, Applied Art and Textiles at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, became the first non-Italian director of the Uffizi in August 2015, replacing Antonio Natali who directed the gallery for 9 years. One of the main goals of the new director is to open the Vasari Corridor to the general public. Currently the corridor can only be visited with group reservations made by external tour and travel agencies throughout the year.<br />
<br />
The Vasari Corridor is is a 1-kilometer-long (more than half mile) elevated enclosed passageway which connects the Palazzo Vecchio with the Palazzo Pitti, passing through the Uffizi Gallery and crossing the Ponte Vecchio above the Arno River, in Florence. The passageway was designed and built in 1564 by Giorgio Vasari in only 6 months to allow Cosimo de’ Medici and other Florentine elite to walk safely through the city, from the seat of power in Palazzo Vecchio to their private residence, Palazzo Pitti. The passageway contains over 1000 paintings, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, including the largest and very important collection of self-portraits by some of the most famous masters of painting from the 16th to the 20th century, including Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Delacroix and Ensor.
    CIPG_20160725_NYT-Uffizi_5M3_9737.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 29 JUNE 2016: The new director of the Uffizi Gallery Eike Schmidt poses for a portait in the portico of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, on June 29th 2016.<br />
<br />
Art historian Eike Schmidt, former curator and head of the Department of Sculpture, Applied Art and Textiles at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, became the first non-Italian director of the Uffizi in August 2015, replacing Antonio Natali who directed the gallery for 9 years. One of the main goals of the new director is to open the Vasari Corridor to the general public. Currently the corridor can only be visited with group reservations made by external tour and travel agencies throughout the year.<br />
<br />
The Vasari Corridor is is a 1-kilometer-long (more than half mile) elevated enclosed passageway which connects the Palazzo Vecchio with the Palazzo Pitti, passing through the Uffizi Gallery and crossing the Ponte Vecchio above the Arno River, in Florence. The passageway was designed and built in 1564 by Giorgio Vasari in only 6 months to allow Cosimo de’ Medici and other Florentine elite to walk safely through the city, from the seat of power in Palazzo Vecchio to their private residence, Palazzo Pitti. The passageway contains over 1000 paintings, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, including the largest and very important collection of self-portraits by some of the most famous masters of painting from the 16th to the 20th century, including Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Delacroix and Ensor.
    CIPG_20160725_NYT-Uffizi_5M3_9683.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 29 JUNE 2016: The new director of the Uffizi Gallery Eike Schmidt poses for a portait by the painting "Four Officers of the Soprintendenza", by  Mario Cini di Pianzano, in his office at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, on June 29th 2016.<br />
<br />
Art historian Eike Schmidt, former curator and head of the Department of Sculpture, Applied Art and Textiles at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, became the first non-Italian director of the Uffizi in August 2015, replacing Antonio Natali who directed the gallery for 9 years. One of the main goals of the new director is to open the Vasari Corridor to the general public. Currently the corridor can only be visited with group reservations made by external tour and travel agencies throughout the year.<br />
<br />
The Vasari Corridor is is a 1-kilometer-long (more than half mile) elevated enclosed passageway which connects the Palazzo Vecchio with the Palazzo Pitti, passing through the Uffizi Gallery and crossing the Ponte Vecchio above the Arno River, in Florence. The passageway was designed and built in 1564 by Giorgio Vasari in only 6 months to allow Cosimo de’ Medici and other Florentine elite to walk safely through the city, from the seat of power in Palazzo Vecchio to their private residence, Palazzo Pitti. The passageway contains over 1000 paintings, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, including the largest and very important collection of self-portraits by some of the most famous masters of painting from the 16th to the 20th century, including Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Delacroix and Ensor.
    CIPG_20160725_NYT-Uffizi_5M3_9545.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 29 JUNE 2016: The new director of the Uffizi Gallery Eike Schmidt studies a plan of the museum space here in his office at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, on June 29th 2016.<br />
<br />
Art historian Eike Schmidt, former curator and head of the Department of Sculpture, Applied Art and Textiles at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, became the first non-Italian director of the Uffizi in August 2015, replacing Antonio Natali who directed the gallery for 9 years. One of the main goals of the new director is to open the Vasari Corridor to the general public. Currently the corridor can only be visited with group reservations made by external tour and travel agencies throughout the year.<br />
<br />
The Vasari Corridor is is a 1-kilometer-long (more than half mile) elevated enclosed passageway which connects the Palazzo Vecchio with the Palazzo Pitti, passing through the Uffizi Gallery and crossing the Ponte Vecchio above the Arno River, in Florence. The passageway was designed and built in 1564 by Giorgio Vasari in only 6 months to allow Cosimo de’ Medici and other Florentine elite to walk safely through the city, from the seat of power in Palazzo Vecchio to their private residence, Palazzo Pitti. The passageway contains over 1000 paintings, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, including the largest and very important collection of self-portraits by some of the most famous masters of painting from the 16th to the 20th century, including Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Delacroix and Ensor.
    CIPG_20160725_NYT-Uffizi_5M3_9493.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 29 JUNE 2016: The new director of the Uffizi Gallery Eike Schmidt signs a contract for the acquisition of a sculpture and a painting, here by his office at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, on June 29th 2016.<br />
<br />
Art historian Eike Schmidt, former curator and head of the Department of Sculpture, Applied Art and Textiles at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, became the first non-Italian director of the Uffizi in August 2015, replacing Antonio Natali who directed the gallery for 9 years. One of the main goals of the new director is to open the Vasari Corridor to the general public. Currently the corridor can only be visited with group reservations made by external tour and travel agencies throughout the year.<br />
<br />
The Vasari Corridor is is a 1-kilometer-long (more than half mile) elevated enclosed passageway which connects the Palazzo Vecchio with the Palazzo Pitti, passing through the Uffizi Gallery and crossing the Ponte Vecchio above the Arno River, in Florence. The passageway was designed and built in 1564 by Giorgio Vasari in only 6 months to allow Cosimo de’ Medici and other Florentine elite to walk safely through the city, from the seat of power in Palazzo Vecchio to their private residence, Palazzo Pitti. The passageway contains over 1000 paintings, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, including the largest and very important collection of self-portraits by some of the most famous masters of painting from the 16th to the 20th century, including Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Delacroix and Ensor.
    CIPG_20160725_NYT-Uffizi_5M3_9386.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 29 JUNE 2016: The new director of the Uffizi Gallery Eike Schmidt introduces and explains the photography exhibition “Karl Lagerfeld – Visions of Fashion”, hosted by Palazzo Pitti, to the museum guards in Florence, Italy, on June 29th 2016.<br />
<br />
Art historian Eike Schmidt, former curator and head of the Department of Sculpture, Applied Art and Textiles at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, became the first non-Italian director of the Uffizi in August 2015, replacing Antonio Natali who directed the gallery for 9 years. One of the main goals of the new director is to open the Vasari Corridor to the general public. Currently the corridor can only be visited with group reservations made by external tour and travel agencies throughout the year.<br />
<br />
The Vasari Corridor is is a 1-kilometer-long (more than half mile) elevated enclosed passageway which connects the Palazzo Vecchio with the Palazzo Pitti, passing through the Uffizi Gallery and crossing the Ponte Vecchio above the Arno River, in Florence. The passageway was designed and built in 1564 by Giorgio Vasari in only 6 months to allow Cosimo de’ Medici and other Florentine elite to walk safely through the city, from the seat of power in Palazzo Vecchio to their private residence, Palazzo Pitti. The passageway contains over 1000 paintings, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, including the largest and very important collection of self-portraits by some of the most famous masters of painting from the 16th to the 20th century, including Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Delacroix and Ensor.
    CIPG_20160629_NYT-Uffizi_5M3_5077.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 29 JUNE 2016: The new director of the Uffizi Gallery Eike Schmidt introduces and explains the photography exhibition “Karl Lagerfeld – Visions of Fashion”, hosted by Palazzo Pitti, to the museum guards in Florence, Italy, on June 29th 2016.<br />
<br />
Art historian Eike Schmidt, former curator and head of the Department of Sculpture, Applied Art and Textiles at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, became the first non-Italian director of the Uffizi in August 2015, replacing Antonio Natali who directed the gallery for 9 years. One of the main goals of the new director is to open the Vasari Corridor to the general public. Currently the corridor can only be visited with group reservations made by external tour and travel agencies throughout the year.<br />
<br />
The Vasari Corridor is is a 1-kilometer-long (more than half mile) elevated enclosed passageway which connects the Palazzo Vecchio with the Palazzo Pitti, passing through the Uffizi Gallery and crossing the Ponte Vecchio above the Arno River, in Florence. The passageway was designed and built in 1564 by Giorgio Vasari in only 6 months to allow Cosimo de’ Medici and other Florentine elite to walk safely through the city, from the seat of power in Palazzo Vecchio to their private residence, Palazzo Pitti. The passageway contains over 1000 paintings, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, including the largest and very important collection of self-portraits by some of the most famous masters of painting from the 16th to the 20th century, including Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Delacroix and Ensor.
    CIPG_20160629_NYT-Uffizi_5M3_4961.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 29 JUNE 2016: The new director of the Uffizi Gallery Eike Schmidt is here in the Vasari Corridor by the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, on June 29th 2016.<br />
<br />
Art historian Eike Schmidt, former curator and head of the Department of Sculpture, Applied Art and Textiles at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, became the first non-Italian director of the Uffizi in August 2015, replacing Antonio Natali who directed the gallery for 9 years. One of the main goals of the new director is to open the Vasari Corridor to the general public. Currently the corridor can only be visited with group reservations made by external tour and travel agencies throughout the year.<br />
<br />
The Vasari Corridor is is a 1-kilometer-long (more than half mile) elevated enclosed passageway which connects the Palazzo Vecchio with the Palazzo Pitti, passing through the Uffizi Gallery and crossing the Ponte Vecchio above the Arno River, in Florence. The passageway was designed and built in 1564 by Giorgio Vasari in only 6 months to allow Cosimo de’ Medici and other Florentine elite to walk safely through the city, from the seat of power in Palazzo Vecchio to their private residence, Palazzo Pitti. The passageway contains over 1000 paintings, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, including the largest and very important collection of self-portraits by some of the most famous masters of painting from the 16th to the 20th century, including Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Delacroix and Ensor.
    CIPG_20160629_NYT-Uffizi_5M3_4596.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 29 JUNE 2016: The new director of the Uffizi Gallery Eike Schmidt is here in the Vasari Corridor by the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, on June 29th 2016.<br />
<br />
Art historian Eike Schmidt, former curator and head of the Department of Sculpture, Applied Art and Textiles at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, became the first non-Italian director of the Uffizi in August 2015, replacing Antonio Natali who directed the gallery for 9 years. One of the main goals of the new director is to open the Vasari Corridor to the general public. Currently the corridor can only be visited with group reservations made by external tour and travel agencies throughout the year.<br />
<br />
The Vasari Corridor is is a 1-kilometer-long (more than half mile) elevated enclosed passageway which connects the Palazzo Vecchio with the Palazzo Pitti, passing through the Uffizi Gallery and crossing the Ponte Vecchio above the Arno River, in Florence. The passageway was designed and built in 1564 by Giorgio Vasari in only 6 months to allow Cosimo de’ Medici and other Florentine elite to walk safely through the city, from the seat of power in Palazzo Vecchio to their private residence, Palazzo Pitti. The passageway contains over 1000 paintings, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, including the largest and very important collection of self-portraits by some of the most famous masters of painting from the 16th to the 20th century, including Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Delacroix and Ensor.
    CIPG_20160629_NYT-Uffizi_5M3_4593.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 29 JUNE 2016: The new director of the Uffizi Gallery Eike Schmidt is here in the Vasari Corridor by the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, on June 29th 2016.<br />
<br />
Art historian Eike Schmidt, former curator and head of the Department of Sculpture, Applied Art and Textiles at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, became the first non-Italian director of the Uffizi in August 2015, replacing Antonio Natali who directed the gallery for 9 years. One of the main goals of the new director is to open the Vasari Corridor to the general public. Currently the corridor can only be visited with group reservations made by external tour and travel agencies throughout the year.<br />
<br />
The Vasari Corridor is is a 1-kilometer-long (more than half mile) elevated enclosed passageway which connects the Palazzo Vecchio with the Palazzo Pitti, passing through the Uffizi Gallery and crossing the Ponte Vecchio above the Arno River, in Florence. The passageway was designed and built in 1564 by Giorgio Vasari in only 6 months to allow Cosimo de’ Medici and other Florentine elite to walk safely through the city, from the seat of power in Palazzo Vecchio to their private residence, Palazzo Pitti. The passageway contains over 1000 paintings, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, including the largest and very important collection of self-portraits by some of the most famous masters of painting from the 16th to the 20th century, including Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Delacroix and Ensor.
    CIPG_20160629_NYT-Uffizi_5M3_4592.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 29 JUNE 2016: The new director of the Uffizi Gallery Eike Schmidt is here in the "Michelangelo and the Florentines" room in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, on June 29th 2016.<br />
<br />
Art historian Eike Schmidt, former curator and head of the Department of Sculpture, Applied Art and Textiles at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, became the first non-Italian director of the Uffizi in August 2015, replacing Antonio Natali who directed the gallery for 9 years. One of the main goals of the new director is to open the Vasari Corridor to the general public. Currently the corridor can only be visited with group reservations made by external tour and travel agencies throughout the year.<br />
<br />
The Vasari Corridor is is a 1-kilometer-long (more than half mile) elevated enclosed passageway which connects the Palazzo Vecchio with the Palazzo Pitti, passing through the Uffizi Gallery and crossing the Ponte Vecchio above the Arno River, in Florence. The passageway was designed and built in 1564 by Giorgio Vasari in only 6 months to allow Cosimo de’ Medici and other Florentine elite to walk safely through the city, from the seat of power in Palazzo Vecchio to their private residence, Palazzo Pitti. The passageway contains over 1000 paintings, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, including the largest and very important collection of self-portraits by some of the most famous masters of painting from the 16th to the 20th century, including Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Delacroix and Ensor.
    CIPG_20160629_NYT-Uffizi_5M3_4449.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 29 JUNE 2016: The new director of the Uffizi Gallery Eike Schmidt is interviewed by students in "Michelangelo and the Florentines" room at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, on June 29th 2016.<br />
<br />
Art historian Eike Schmidt, former curator and head of the Department of Sculpture, Applied Art and Textiles at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, became the first non-Italian director of the Uffizi in August 2015, replacing Antonio Natali who directed the gallery for 9 years. One of the main goals of the new director is to open the Vasari Corridor to the general public. Currently the corridor can only be visited with group reservations made by external tour and travel agencies throughout the year.<br />
<br />
The Vasari Corridor is is a 1-kilometer-long (more than half mile) elevated enclosed passageway which connects the Palazzo Vecchio with the Palazzo Pitti, passing through the Uffizi Gallery and crossing the Ponte Vecchio above the Arno River, in Florence. The passageway was designed and built in 1564 by Giorgio Vasari in only 6 months to allow Cosimo de’ Medici and other Florentine elite to walk safely through the city, from the seat of power in Palazzo Vecchio to their private residence, Palazzo Pitti. The passageway contains over 1000 paintings, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, including the largest and very important collection of self-portraits by some of the most famous masters of painting from the 16th to the 20th century, including Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Delacroix and Ensor.
    CIPG_20160725_NYT-Uffizi_5M3_9720.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 29 JUNE 2016: The new director of the Uffizi Gallery Eike Schmidt poses for a portait in the portico of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, on June 29th 2016.<br />
<br />
Art historian Eike Schmidt, former curator and head of the Department of Sculpture, Applied Art and Textiles at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, became the first non-Italian director of the Uffizi in August 2015, replacing Antonio Natali who directed the gallery for 9 years. One of the main goals of the new director is to open the Vasari Corridor to the general public. Currently the corridor can only be visited with group reservations made by external tour and travel agencies throughout the year.<br />
<br />
The Vasari Corridor is is a 1-kilometer-long (more than half mile) elevated enclosed passageway which connects the Palazzo Vecchio with the Palazzo Pitti, passing through the Uffizi Gallery and crossing the Ponte Vecchio above the Arno River, in Florence. The passageway was designed and built in 1564 by Giorgio Vasari in only 6 months to allow Cosimo de’ Medici and other Florentine elite to walk safely through the city, from the seat of power in Palazzo Vecchio to their private residence, Palazzo Pitti. The passageway contains over 1000 paintings, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, including the largest and very important collection of self-portraits by some of the most famous masters of painting from the 16th to the 20th century, including Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Delacroix and Ensor.
    CIPG_20160725_NYT-Uffizi_5M3_9671.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 29 JUNE 2016: The new director of the Uffizi Gallery Eike Schmidt poses for a portait in the portico of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, on June 29th 2016.<br />
<br />
Art historian Eike Schmidt, former curator and head of the Department of Sculpture, Applied Art and Textiles at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, became the first non-Italian director of the Uffizi in August 2015, replacing Antonio Natali who directed the gallery for 9 years. One of the main goals of the new director is to open the Vasari Corridor to the general public. Currently the corridor can only be visited with group reservations made by external tour and travel agencies throughout the year.<br />
<br />
The Vasari Corridor is is a 1-kilometer-long (more than half mile) elevated enclosed passageway which connects the Palazzo Vecchio with the Palazzo Pitti, passing through the Uffizi Gallery and crossing the Ponte Vecchio above the Arno River, in Florence. The passageway was designed and built in 1564 by Giorgio Vasari in only 6 months to allow Cosimo de’ Medici and other Florentine elite to walk safely through the city, from the seat of power in Palazzo Vecchio to their private residence, Palazzo Pitti. The passageway contains over 1000 paintings, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, including the largest and very important collection of self-portraits by some of the most famous masters of painting from the 16th to the 20th century, including Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Delacroix and Ensor.
    CIPG_20160725_NYT-Uffizi_5M3_9638.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 29 JUNE 2016: The new director of the Uffizi Gallery Eike Schmidt poses for a portait in the courtyard of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, on June 29th 2016.<br />
<br />
Art historian Eike Schmidt, former curator and head of the Department of Sculpture, Applied Art and Textiles at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, became the first non-Italian director of the Uffizi in August 2015, replacing Antonio Natali who directed the gallery for 9 years. One of the main goals of the new director is to open the Vasari Corridor to the general public. Currently the corridor can only be visited with group reservations made by external tour and travel agencies throughout the year.<br />
<br />
The Vasari Corridor is is a 1-kilometer-long (more than half mile) elevated enclosed passageway which connects the Palazzo Vecchio with the Palazzo Pitti, passing through the Uffizi Gallery and crossing the Ponte Vecchio above the Arno River, in Florence. The passageway was designed and built in 1564 by Giorgio Vasari in only 6 months to allow Cosimo de’ Medici and other Florentine elite to walk safely through the city, from the seat of power in Palazzo Vecchio to their private residence, Palazzo Pitti. The passageway contains over 1000 paintings, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, including the largest and very important collection of self-portraits by some of the most famous masters of painting from the 16th to the 20th century, including Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Delacroix and Ensor.
    CIPG_20160725_NYT-Uffizi_5M3_9614.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 29 JUNE 2016: The new director of the Uffizi Gallery Eike Schmidt poses for a portait in the courtyard of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, on June 29th 2016.<br />
<br />
Art historian Eike Schmidt, former curator and head of the Department of Sculpture, Applied Art and Textiles at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, became the first non-Italian director of the Uffizi in August 2015, replacing Antonio Natali who directed the gallery for 9 years. One of the main goals of the new director is to open the Vasari Corridor to the general public. Currently the corridor can only be visited with group reservations made by external tour and travel agencies throughout the year.<br />
<br />
The Vasari Corridor is is a 1-kilometer-long (more than half mile) elevated enclosed passageway which connects the Palazzo Vecchio with the Palazzo Pitti, passing through the Uffizi Gallery and crossing the Ponte Vecchio above the Arno River, in Florence. The passageway was designed and built in 1564 by Giorgio Vasari in only 6 months to allow Cosimo de’ Medici and other Florentine elite to walk safely through the city, from the seat of power in Palazzo Vecchio to their private residence, Palazzo Pitti. The passageway contains over 1000 paintings, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, including the largest and very important collection of self-portraits by some of the most famous masters of painting from the 16th to the 20th century, including Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Delacroix and Ensor.
    CIPG_20160725_NYT-Uffizi_5M3_9584.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 29 JUNE 2016: The new director of the Uffizi Gallery Eike Schmidt poses for a portait in the courtyard of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, on June 29th 2016.<br />
<br />
Art historian Eike Schmidt, former curator and head of the Department of Sculpture, Applied Art and Textiles at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, became the first non-Italian director of the Uffizi in August 2015, replacing Antonio Natali who directed the gallery for 9 years. One of the main goals of the new director is to open the Vasari Corridor to the general public. Currently the corridor can only be visited with group reservations made by external tour and travel agencies throughout the year.<br />
<br />
The Vasari Corridor is is a 1-kilometer-long (more than half mile) elevated enclosed passageway which connects the Palazzo Vecchio with the Palazzo Pitti, passing through the Uffizi Gallery and crossing the Ponte Vecchio above the Arno River, in Florence. The passageway was designed and built in 1564 by Giorgio Vasari in only 6 months to allow Cosimo de’ Medici and other Florentine elite to walk safely through the city, from the seat of power in Palazzo Vecchio to their private residence, Palazzo Pitti. The passageway contains over 1000 paintings, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, including the largest and very important collection of self-portraits by some of the most famous masters of painting from the 16th to the 20th century, including Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Delacroix and Ensor.
    CIPG_20160725_NYT-Uffizi_5M3_9573.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 29 JUNE 2016: The new director of the Uffizi Gallery Eike Schmidt poses for a portait by the painting "Four Officers of the Soprintendenza", by  Mario Cini di Pianzano, in his office at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, on June 29th 2016.<br />
<br />
Art historian Eike Schmidt, former curator and head of the Department of Sculpture, Applied Art and Textiles at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, became the first non-Italian director of the Uffizi in August 2015, replacing Antonio Natali who directed the gallery for 9 years. One of the main goals of the new director is to open the Vasari Corridor to the general public. Currently the corridor can only be visited with group reservations made by external tour and travel agencies throughout the year.<br />
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The Vasari Corridor is is a 1-kilometer-long (more than half mile) elevated enclosed passageway which connects the Palazzo Vecchio with the Palazzo Pitti, passing through the Uffizi Gallery and crossing the Ponte Vecchio above the Arno River, in Florence. The passageway was designed and built in 1564 by Giorgio Vasari in only 6 months to allow Cosimo de’ Medici and other Florentine elite to walk safely through the city, from the seat of power in Palazzo Vecchio to their private residence, Palazzo Pitti. The passageway contains over 1000 paintings, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, including the largest and very important collection of self-portraits by some of the most famous masters of painting from the 16th to the 20th century, including Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Delacroix and Ensor.
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  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 29 JUNE 2016: The new director of the Uffizi Gallery Eike Schmidt poses for a portait by the painting "Four Officers of the Soprintendenza", by  Mario Cini di Pianzano, in his office at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, on June 29th 2016.<br />
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Art historian Eike Schmidt, former curator and head of the Department of Sculpture, Applied Art and Textiles at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, became the first non-Italian director of the Uffizi in August 2015, replacing Antonio Natali who directed the gallery for 9 years. One of the main goals of the new director is to open the Vasari Corridor to the general public. Currently the corridor can only be visited with group reservations made by external tour and travel agencies throughout the year.<br />
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The Vasari Corridor is is a 1-kilometer-long (more than half mile) elevated enclosed passageway which connects the Palazzo Vecchio with the Palazzo Pitti, passing through the Uffizi Gallery and crossing the Ponte Vecchio above the Arno River, in Florence. The passageway was designed and built in 1564 by Giorgio Vasari in only 6 months to allow Cosimo de’ Medici and other Florentine elite to walk safely through the city, from the seat of power in Palazzo Vecchio to their private residence, Palazzo Pitti. The passageway contains over 1000 paintings, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, including the largest and very important collection of self-portraits by some of the most famous masters of painting from the 16th to the 20th century, including Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Delacroix and Ensor.
    CIPG_20160725_NYT-Uffizi_5M3_9521.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 29 JUNE 2016: The new director of the Uffizi Gallery Eike Schmidt studies a plan of the museum space here in his office at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, on June 29th 2016.<br />
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Art historian Eike Schmidt, former curator and head of the Department of Sculpture, Applied Art and Textiles at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, became the first non-Italian director of the Uffizi in August 2015, replacing Antonio Natali who directed the gallery for 9 years. One of the main goals of the new director is to open the Vasari Corridor to the general public. Currently the corridor can only be visited with group reservations made by external tour and travel agencies throughout the year.<br />
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The Vasari Corridor is is a 1-kilometer-long (more than half mile) elevated enclosed passageway which connects the Palazzo Vecchio with the Palazzo Pitti, passing through the Uffizi Gallery and crossing the Ponte Vecchio above the Arno River, in Florence. The passageway was designed and built in 1564 by Giorgio Vasari in only 6 months to allow Cosimo de’ Medici and other Florentine elite to walk safely through the city, from the seat of power in Palazzo Vecchio to their private residence, Palazzo Pitti. The passageway contains over 1000 paintings, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, including the largest and very important collection of self-portraits by some of the most famous masters of painting from the 16th to the 20th century, including Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Delacroix and Ensor.
    CIPG_20160725_NYT-Uffizi_5M3_9461.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 29 JUNE 2016: The new director of the Uffizi Gallery Eike Schmidt studies a plan of the museum space here in his office at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, on June 29th 2016.<br />
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Art historian Eike Schmidt, former curator and head of the Department of Sculpture, Applied Art and Textiles at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, became the first non-Italian director of the Uffizi in August 2015, replacing Antonio Natali who directed the gallery for 9 years. One of the main goals of the new director is to open the Vasari Corridor to the general public. Currently the corridor can only be visited with group reservations made by external tour and travel agencies throughout the year.<br />
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The Vasari Corridor is is a 1-kilometer-long (more than half mile) elevated enclosed passageway which connects the Palazzo Vecchio with the Palazzo Pitti, passing through the Uffizi Gallery and crossing the Ponte Vecchio above the Arno River, in Florence. The passageway was designed and built in 1564 by Giorgio Vasari in only 6 months to allow Cosimo de’ Medici and other Florentine elite to walk safely through the city, from the seat of power in Palazzo Vecchio to their private residence, Palazzo Pitti. The passageway contains over 1000 paintings, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, including the largest and very important collection of self-portraits by some of the most famous masters of painting from the 16th to the 20th century, including Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Delacroix and Ensor.
    CIPG_20160725_NYT-Uffizi_5M3_9451.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 29 JUNE 2016: The new director of the Uffizi Gallery Eike Schmidt studies a plan of the museum space here in his office at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, on June 29th 2016.<br />
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Art historian Eike Schmidt, former curator and head of the Department of Sculpture, Applied Art and Textiles at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, became the first non-Italian director of the Uffizi in August 2015, replacing Antonio Natali who directed the gallery for 9 years. One of the main goals of the new director is to open the Vasari Corridor to the general public. Currently the corridor can only be visited with group reservations made by external tour and travel agencies throughout the year.<br />
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The Vasari Corridor is is a 1-kilometer-long (more than half mile) elevated enclosed passageway which connects the Palazzo Vecchio with the Palazzo Pitti, passing through the Uffizi Gallery and crossing the Ponte Vecchio above the Arno River, in Florence. The passageway was designed and built in 1564 by Giorgio Vasari in only 6 months to allow Cosimo de’ Medici and other Florentine elite to walk safely through the city, from the seat of power in Palazzo Vecchio to their private residence, Palazzo Pitti. The passageway contains over 1000 paintings, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, including the largest and very important collection of self-portraits by some of the most famous masters of painting from the 16th to the 20th century, including Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Delacroix and Ensor.
    CIPG_20160725_NYT-Uffizi_5M3_9447.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 29 JUNE 2016: The new director of the Uffizi Gallery Eike Schmidt introduces and explains the photography exhibition “Karl Lagerfeld – Visions of Fashion”, hosted by Palazzo Pitti, to the museum guards in Florence, Italy, on June 29th 2016.<br />
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Art historian Eike Schmidt, former curator and head of the Department of Sculpture, Applied Art and Textiles at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, became the first non-Italian director of the Uffizi in August 2015, replacing Antonio Natali who directed the gallery for 9 years. One of the main goals of the new director is to open the Vasari Corridor to the general public. Currently the corridor can only be visited with group reservations made by external tour and travel agencies throughout the year.<br />
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The Vasari Corridor is is a 1-kilometer-long (more than half mile) elevated enclosed passageway which connects the Palazzo Vecchio with the Palazzo Pitti, passing through the Uffizi Gallery and crossing the Ponte Vecchio above the Arno River, in Florence. The passageway was designed and built in 1564 by Giorgio Vasari in only 6 months to allow Cosimo de’ Medici and other Florentine elite to walk safely through the city, from the seat of power in Palazzo Vecchio to their private residence, Palazzo Pitti. The passageway contains over 1000 paintings, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, including the largest and very important collection of self-portraits by some of the most famous masters of painting from the 16th to the 20th century, including Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Delacroix and Ensor.
    CIPG_20160629_NYT-Uffizi_5M3_5099.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 29 JUNE 2016: The new director of the Uffizi Gallery Eike Schmidt walks through Palazzo Pitti after introducing and explaining the photography exhibition “Karl Lagerfeld – Visions of Fashion” hosted by Palazzo Pitti in Florence, Italy, on June 29th 2016.<br />
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Art historian Eike Schmidt, former curator and head of the Department of Sculpture, Applied Art and Textiles at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, became the first non-Italian director of the Uffizi in August 2015, replacing Antonio Natali who directed the gallery for 9 years. One of the main goals of the new director is to open the Vasari Corridor to the general public. Currently the corridor can only be visited with group reservations made by external tour and travel agencies throughout the year.<br />
<br />
The Vasari Corridor is is a 1-kilometer-long (more than half mile) elevated enclosed passageway which connects the Palazzo Vecchio with the Palazzo Pitti, passing through the Uffizi Gallery and crossing the Ponte Vecchio above the Arno River, in Florence. The passageway was designed and built in 1564 by Giorgio Vasari in only 6 months to allow Cosimo de’ Medici and other Florentine elite to walk safely through the city, from the seat of power in Palazzo Vecchio to their private residence, Palazzo Pitti. The passageway contains over 1000 paintings, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, including the largest and very important collection of self-portraits by some of the most famous masters of painting from the 16th to the 20th century, including Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Delacroix and Ensor.
    CIPG_20160629_NYT-Uffizi_5M3_5065.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 29 JUNE 2016: The new director of the Uffizi Gallery Eike Schmidt introduces and explains the photography exhibition “Karl Lagerfeld – Visions of Fashion”, hosted by Palazzo Pitti, to the museum guards in Florence, Italy, on June 29th 2016.<br />
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Art historian Eike Schmidt, former curator and head of the Department of Sculpture, Applied Art and Textiles at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, became the first non-Italian director of the Uffizi in August 2015, replacing Antonio Natali who directed the gallery for 9 years. One of the main goals of the new director is to open the Vasari Corridor to the general public. Currently the corridor can only be visited with group reservations made by external tour and travel agencies throughout the year.<br />
<br />
The Vasari Corridor is is a 1-kilometer-long (more than half mile) elevated enclosed passageway which connects the Palazzo Vecchio with the Palazzo Pitti, passing through the Uffizi Gallery and crossing the Ponte Vecchio above the Arno River, in Florence. The passageway was designed and built in 1564 by Giorgio Vasari in only 6 months to allow Cosimo de’ Medici and other Florentine elite to walk safely through the city, from the seat of power in Palazzo Vecchio to their private residence, Palazzo Pitti. The passageway contains over 1000 paintings, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, including the largest and very important collection of self-portraits by some of the most famous masters of painting from the 16th to the 20th century, including Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Delacroix and Ensor.
    CIPG_20160629_NYT-Uffizi_5M3_5030.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 29 JUNE 2016: The new director of the Uffizi Gallery Eike Schmidt introduces and explains the photography exhibition “Karl Lagerfeld – Visions of Fashion”, hosted by Palazzo Pitti, to the museum guards in Florence, Italy, on June 29th 2016.<br />
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Art historian Eike Schmidt, former curator and head of the Department of Sculpture, Applied Art and Textiles at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, became the first non-Italian director of the Uffizi in August 2015, replacing Antonio Natali who directed the gallery for 9 years. One of the main goals of the new director is to open the Vasari Corridor to the general public. Currently the corridor can only be visited with group reservations made by external tour and travel agencies throughout the year.<br />
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The Vasari Corridor is is a 1-kilometer-long (more than half mile) elevated enclosed passageway which connects the Palazzo Vecchio with the Palazzo Pitti, passing through the Uffizi Gallery and crossing the Ponte Vecchio above the Arno River, in Florence. The passageway was designed and built in 1564 by Giorgio Vasari in only 6 months to allow Cosimo de’ Medici and other Florentine elite to walk safely through the city, from the seat of power in Palazzo Vecchio to their private residence, Palazzo Pitti. The passageway contains over 1000 paintings, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, including the largest and very important collection of self-portraits by some of the most famous masters of painting from the 16th to the 20th century, including Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Delacroix and Ensor.
    CIPG_20160629_NYT-Uffizi_5M3_5019.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 29 JUNE 2016: The new director of the Uffizi Gallery Eike Schmidt introduces and explains the photography exhibition “Karl Lagerfeld – Visions of Fashion”, hosted by Palazzo Pitti, to the museum guards in Florence, Italy, on June 29th 2016.<br />
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Art historian Eike Schmidt, former curator and head of the Department of Sculpture, Applied Art and Textiles at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, became the first non-Italian director of the Uffizi in August 2015, replacing Antonio Natali who directed the gallery for 9 years. One of the main goals of the new director is to open the Vasari Corridor to the general public. Currently the corridor can only be visited with group reservations made by external tour and travel agencies throughout the year.<br />
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The Vasari Corridor is is a 1-kilometer-long (more than half mile) elevated enclosed passageway which connects the Palazzo Vecchio with the Palazzo Pitti, passing through the Uffizi Gallery and crossing the Ponte Vecchio above the Arno River, in Florence. The passageway was designed and built in 1564 by Giorgio Vasari in only 6 months to allow Cosimo de’ Medici and other Florentine elite to walk safely through the city, from the seat of power in Palazzo Vecchio to their private residence, Palazzo Pitti. The passageway contains over 1000 paintings, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, including the largest and very important collection of self-portraits by some of the most famous masters of painting from the 16th to the 20th century, including Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Delacroix and Ensor.
    CIPG_20160629_NYT-Uffizi_5M3_4943.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 29 JUNE 2016: The new director of the Uffizi Gallery Eike Schmidt is here in the Vasari Corridor by the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, on June 29th 2016.<br />
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Art historian Eike Schmidt, former curator and head of the Department of Sculpture, Applied Art and Textiles at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, became the first non-Italian director of the Uffizi in August 2015, replacing Antonio Natali who directed the gallery for 9 years. One of the main goals of the new director is to open the Vasari Corridor to the general public. Currently the corridor can only be visited with group reservations made by external tour and travel agencies throughout the year.<br />
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The Vasari Corridor is is a 1-kilometer-long (more than half mile) elevated enclosed passageway which connects the Palazzo Vecchio with the Palazzo Pitti, passing through the Uffizi Gallery and crossing the Ponte Vecchio above the Arno River, in Florence. The passageway was designed and built in 1564 by Giorgio Vasari in only 6 months to allow Cosimo de’ Medici and other Florentine elite to walk safely through the city, from the seat of power in Palazzo Vecchio to their private residence, Palazzo Pitti. The passageway contains over 1000 paintings, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, including the largest and very important collection of self-portraits by some of the most famous masters of painting from the 16th to the 20th century, including Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Delacroix and Ensor.
    CIPG_20160629_NYT-Uffizi_5M3_4597.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 29 JUNE 2016: The new director of the Uffizi Gallery Eike Schmidt is here in the Vasari Corridor by the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, on June 29th 2016.<br />
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Art historian Eike Schmidt, former curator and head of the Department of Sculpture, Applied Art and Textiles at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, became the first non-Italian director of the Uffizi in August 2015, replacing Antonio Natali who directed the gallery for 9 years. One of the main goals of the new director is to open the Vasari Corridor to the general public. Currently the corridor can only be visited with group reservations made by external tour and travel agencies throughout the year.<br />
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The Vasari Corridor is is a 1-kilometer-long (more than half mile) elevated enclosed passageway which connects the Palazzo Vecchio with the Palazzo Pitti, passing through the Uffizi Gallery and crossing the Ponte Vecchio above the Arno River, in Florence. The passageway was designed and built in 1564 by Giorgio Vasari in only 6 months to allow Cosimo de’ Medici and other Florentine elite to walk safely through the city, from the seat of power in Palazzo Vecchio to their private residence, Palazzo Pitti. The passageway contains over 1000 paintings, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, including the largest and very important collection of self-portraits by some of the most famous masters of painting from the 16th to the 20th century, including Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Delacroix and Ensor.
    CIPG_20160629_NYT-Uffizi_5M3_4537.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 29 JUNE 2016: The new director of the Uffizi Gallery Eike Schmidt is here in the Vasari Corridor by the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, on June 29th 2016.<br />
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Art historian Eike Schmidt, former curator and head of the Department of Sculpture, Applied Art and Textiles at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, became the first non-Italian director of the Uffizi in August 2015, replacing Antonio Natali who directed the gallery for 9 years. One of the main goals of the new director is to open the Vasari Corridor to the general public. Currently the corridor can only be visited with group reservations made by external tour and travel agencies throughout the year.<br />
<br />
The Vasari Corridor is is a 1-kilometer-long (more than half mile) elevated enclosed passageway which connects the Palazzo Vecchio with the Palazzo Pitti, passing through the Uffizi Gallery and crossing the Ponte Vecchio above the Arno River, in Florence. The passageway was designed and built in 1564 by Giorgio Vasari in only 6 months to allow Cosimo de’ Medici and other Florentine elite to walk safely through the city, from the seat of power in Palazzo Vecchio to their private residence, Palazzo Pitti. The passageway contains over 1000 paintings, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, including the largest and very important collection of self-portraits by some of the most famous masters of painting from the 16th to the 20th century, including Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Delacroix and Ensor.
    CIPG_20160629_NYT-Uffizi_5M3_4492.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 29 JUNE 2016: The new director of the Uffizi Gallery Eike Schmidt is here in the Vasari Corridor by the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, on June 29th 2016.<br />
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Art historian Eike Schmidt, former curator and head of the Department of Sculpture, Applied Art and Textiles at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, became the first non-Italian director of the Uffizi in August 2015, replacing Antonio Natali who directed the gallery for 9 years. One of the main goals of the new director is to open the Vasari Corridor to the general public. Currently the corridor can only be visited with group reservations made by external tour and travel agencies throughout the year.<br />
<br />
The Vasari Corridor is is a 1-kilometer-long (more than half mile) elevated enclosed passageway which connects the Palazzo Vecchio with the Palazzo Pitti, passing through the Uffizi Gallery and crossing the Ponte Vecchio above the Arno River, in Florence. The passageway was designed and built in 1564 by Giorgio Vasari in only 6 months to allow Cosimo de’ Medici and other Florentine elite to walk safely through the city, from the seat of power in Palazzo Vecchio to their private residence, Palazzo Pitti. The passageway contains over 1000 paintings, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, including the largest and very important collection of self-portraits by some of the most famous masters of painting from the 16th to the 20th century, including Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Delacroix and Ensor.
    CIPG_20160629_NYT-Uffizi_5M3_4483.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 29 JUNE 2016: The new director of the Uffizi Gallery Eike Schmidt is here in the Vasari Corridor by the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, on June 29th 2016.<br />
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Art historian Eike Schmidt, former curator and head of the Department of Sculpture, Applied Art and Textiles at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, became the first non-Italian director of the Uffizi in August 2015, replacing Antonio Natali who directed the gallery for 9 years. One of the main goals of the new director is to open the Vasari Corridor to the general public. Currently the corridor can only be visited with group reservations made by external tour and travel agencies throughout the year.<br />
<br />
The Vasari Corridor is is a 1-kilometer-long (more than half mile) elevated enclosed passageway which connects the Palazzo Vecchio with the Palazzo Pitti, passing through the Uffizi Gallery and crossing the Ponte Vecchio above the Arno River, in Florence. The passageway was designed and built in 1564 by Giorgio Vasari in only 6 months to allow Cosimo de’ Medici and other Florentine elite to walk safely through the city, from the seat of power in Palazzo Vecchio to their private residence, Palazzo Pitti. The passageway contains over 1000 paintings, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, including the largest and very important collection of self-portraits by some of the most famous masters of painting from the 16th to the 20th century, including Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Delacroix and Ensor.
    CIPG_20160629_NYT-Uffizi_5M3_4472.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 29 JUNE 2016: The new director of the Uffizi Gallery Eike Schmidt is here in the Vasari Corridor by the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, on June 29th 2016.<br />
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Art historian Eike Schmidt, former curator and head of the Department of Sculpture, Applied Art and Textiles at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, became the first non-Italian director of the Uffizi in August 2015, replacing Antonio Natali who directed the gallery for 9 years. One of the main goals of the new director is to open the Vasari Corridor to the general public. Currently the corridor can only be visited with group reservations made by external tour and travel agencies throughout the year.<br />
<br />
The Vasari Corridor is is a 1-kilometer-long (more than half mile) elevated enclosed passageway which connects the Palazzo Vecchio with the Palazzo Pitti, passing through the Uffizi Gallery and crossing the Ponte Vecchio above the Arno River, in Florence. The passageway was designed and built in 1564 by Giorgio Vasari in only 6 months to allow Cosimo de’ Medici and other Florentine elite to walk safely through the city, from the seat of power in Palazzo Vecchio to their private residence, Palazzo Pitti. The passageway contains over 1000 paintings, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, including the largest and very important collection of self-portraits by some of the most famous masters of painting from the 16th to the 20th century, including Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Delacroix and Ensor.
    CIPG_20160629_NYT-Uffizi_5M3_4458.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 29 JUNE 2016: The new director of the Uffizi Gallery Eike Schmidt is here in the Vasari Corridor by the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, on June 29th 2016.<br />
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Art historian Eike Schmidt, former curator and head of the Department of Sculpture, Applied Art and Textiles at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, became the first non-Italian director of the Uffizi in August 2015, replacing Antonio Natali who directed the gallery for 9 years. One of the main goals of the new director is to open the Vasari Corridor to the general public. Currently the corridor can only be visited with group reservations made by external tour and travel agencies throughout the year.<br />
<br />
The Vasari Corridor is is a 1-kilometer-long (more than half mile) elevated enclosed passageway which connects the Palazzo Vecchio with the Palazzo Pitti, passing through the Uffizi Gallery and crossing the Ponte Vecchio above the Arno River, in Florence. The passageway was designed and built in 1564 by Giorgio Vasari in only 6 months to allow Cosimo de’ Medici and other Florentine elite to walk safely through the city, from the seat of power in Palazzo Vecchio to their private residence, Palazzo Pitti. The passageway contains over 1000 paintings, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, including the largest and very important collection of self-portraits by some of the most famous masters of painting from the 16th to the 20th century, including Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Delacroix and Ensor.
    CIPG_20160629_NYT-Uffizi_5M3_4457.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 29 JUNE 2016: The new director of the Uffizi Gallery Eike Schmidt is here in the "Michelangelo and the Florentines" room in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, on June 29th 2016.<br />
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Art historian Eike Schmidt, former curator and head of the Department of Sculpture, Applied Art and Textiles at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, became the first non-Italian director of the Uffizi in August 2015, replacing Antonio Natali who directed the gallery for 9 years. One of the main goals of the new director is to open the Vasari Corridor to the general public. Currently the corridor can only be visited with group reservations made by external tour and travel agencies throughout the year.<br />
<br />
The Vasari Corridor is is a 1-kilometer-long (more than half mile) elevated enclosed passageway which connects the Palazzo Vecchio with the Palazzo Pitti, passing through the Uffizi Gallery and crossing the Ponte Vecchio above the Arno River, in Florence. The passageway was designed and built in 1564 by Giorgio Vasari in only 6 months to allow Cosimo de’ Medici and other Florentine elite to walk safely through the city, from the seat of power in Palazzo Vecchio to their private residence, Palazzo Pitti. The passageway contains over 1000 paintings, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, including the largest and very important collection of self-portraits by some of the most famous masters of painting from the 16th to the 20th century, including Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Delacroix and Ensor.
    CIPG_20160629_NYT-Uffizi_5M3_4440.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 29 JUNE 2016: The new director of the Uffizi Gallery Eike Schmidt is here in the "Michelangelo and the Florentines" room in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, on June 29th 2016.<br />
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Art historian Eike Schmidt, former curator and head of the Department of Sculpture, Applied Art and Textiles at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, became the first non-Italian director of the Uffizi in August 2015, replacing Antonio Natali who directed the gallery for 9 years. One of the main goals of the new director is to open the Vasari Corridor to the general public. Currently the corridor can only be visited with group reservations made by external tour and travel agencies throughout the year.<br />
<br />
The Vasari Corridor is is a 1-kilometer-long (more than half mile) elevated enclosed passageway which connects the Palazzo Vecchio with the Palazzo Pitti, passing through the Uffizi Gallery and crossing the Ponte Vecchio above the Arno River, in Florence. The passageway was designed and built in 1564 by Giorgio Vasari in only 6 months to allow Cosimo de’ Medici and other Florentine elite to walk safely through the city, from the seat of power in Palazzo Vecchio to their private residence, Palazzo Pitti. The passageway contains over 1000 paintings, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, including the largest and very important collection of self-portraits by some of the most famous masters of painting from the 16th to the 20th century, including Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Delacroix and Ensor.
    CIPG_20160629_NYT-Uffizi_5M3_4420.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 29 JUNE 2016: The new director of the Uffizi Gallery Eike Schmidt is here in the "Michelangelo and the Florentines" room in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, on June 29th 2016.<br />
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Art historian Eike Schmidt, former curator and head of the Department of Sculpture, Applied Art and Textiles at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, became the first non-Italian director of the Uffizi in August 2015, replacing Antonio Natali who directed the gallery for 9 years. One of the main goals of the new director is to open the Vasari Corridor to the general public. Currently the corridor can only be visited with group reservations made by external tour and travel agencies throughout the year.<br />
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The Vasari Corridor is is a 1-kilometer-long (more than half mile) elevated enclosed passageway which connects the Palazzo Vecchio with the Palazzo Pitti, passing through the Uffizi Gallery and crossing the Ponte Vecchio above the Arno River, in Florence. The passageway was designed and built in 1564 by Giorgio Vasari in only 6 months to allow Cosimo de’ Medici and other Florentine elite to walk safely through the city, from the seat of power in Palazzo Vecchio to their private residence, Palazzo Pitti. The passageway contains over 1000 paintings, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, including the largest and very important collection of self-portraits by some of the most famous masters of painting from the 16th to the 20th century, including Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Delacroix and Ensor.
    CIPG_20160629_NYT-Uffizi_5M3_4413.jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 21 DECEMBER 2020: Italian director Matteo Garrone (52) - cowriter and director of the live-action film "Pinnocchio" (2019) - poses for a portrait with a storyboard of Pinocchio he made at the age of six years old, at the Studios, a film studio in Rome, Italy, on December 21st 2020. <br />
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"Pinocchio " was a passion project for Garrone, who drew the first storyboard of the story at the age of six. For this project, Matteo Garrone -  who directed the widely acclaimed “Gomorrah" (2008) and Dogman (2018) among others - and his cowriter Massimo Ceccherini went back to the original  1883 children tale "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi, which is much more complex and darker than the 1940 Disney fable.  In Garrone's version, Pinocchio is played with a woodified face by child actor Federico Ielapi, and his father-creator Geppetto is played by the Oscar-winner Roberto Benigni. The film was first released in Italy in December 2019.   The English version of the movie will be released in the United States and Canada on December 25th 2020.
    CIPG_20201221_NYT-MatteoGarrone_7M30...jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 29 JUNE 2016: A view of the Uffizi Courtyard in Florence, Italy, on June 29th 2016.<br />
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Art historian Eike Schmidt, former curator and head of the Department of Sculpture, Applied Art and Textiles at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, became the first non-Italian director of the Uffizi in August 2015, replacing Antonio Natali who directed the gallery for 9 years. One of the main goals of the new director is to open the Vasari Corridor to the general public. Currently the corridor can only be visited with group reservations made by external tour and travel agencies throughout the year.<br />
<br />
The Vasari Corridor is is a 1-kilometer-long (more than half mile) elevated enclosed passageway which connects the Palazzo Vecchio with the Palazzo Pitti, passing through the Uffizi Gallery and crossing the Ponte Vecchio above the Arno River, in Florence. The passageway was designed and built in 1564 by Giorgio Vasari in only 6 months to allow Cosimo de’ Medici and other Florentine elite to walk safely through the city, from the seat of power in Palazzo Vecchio to their private residence, Palazzo Pitti. The passageway contains over 1000 paintings, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, including the largest and very important collection of self-portraits by some of the most famous masters of painting from the 16th to the 20th century, including Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Delacroix and Ensor.
    CIPG_20160628_NYT-Uffizi_5M3_4371.jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 12 MARCH 2013: Music director Riccardo Muti, 71, walks from his dressing room towards the orchestra for the third and final act of "I Due Foscari", an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi, at the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, Italy, on March 12, 2013... Riccardo Muti, Music Director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, has accepted the title of Honorary Director for Life of the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome...Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
    CIPG_20130312_NYT_MUTI__MG_5295.jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 12 MARCH 2013: Music director Riccardo Muti, 71, poses in his dressing room during the second interval of  "I Due Foscari", an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi, at the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, Italy, on March 12, 2013... Riccardo Muti, Music Director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, has accepted the title of Honorary Director for Life of the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome...Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
    CIPG_20130312_NYT_MUTI__MG_5281.jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 12 MARCH 2013: Music director Riccardo Muti, 71, plays the piano in his dressing room during the second interval of  "I Due Foscari", an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi, at the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, Italy, on March 12, 2013... Riccardo Muti, Music Director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, has accepted the title of Honorary Director for Life of the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome...Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
    CIPG_20130312_NYT_MUTI__MG_5270.jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 12 MARCH 2013: Music director Riccardo Muti, 71, directs the first act of  "I Due Foscari", an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi, at the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, Italy, on March 12, 2013... Riccardo Muti, Music Director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, has accepted the title of Honorary Director for Life of the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome...Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
    CIPG_20130312_NYT_MUTI__MG_5129.jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 21 DECEMBER 2020: Italian director Matteo Garrone (52) - cowriter and director of the live-action film "Pinnocchio" (2019) - poses for a portrait at the Studios, a film studio in Rome, Italy, on December 21st 2020. <br />
<br />
"Pinocchio " was a passion project for Garrone, who drew the first storyboard of the story at the age of six. For this project, Matteo Garrone -  who directed the widely acclaimed “Gomorrah" (2008) and Dogman (2018) among others - and his cowriter Massimo Ceccherini went back to the original  1883 children tale "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi, which is much more complex and darker than the 1940 Disney fable.  In Garrone's version, Pinocchio is played with a woodified face by child actor Federico Ielapi, and his father-creator Geppetto is played by the Oscar-winner Roberto Benigni. The film was first released in Italy in December 2019.   The English version of the movie will be released in the United States and Canada on December 25th 2020.
    CIPG_20201221_NYT-MatteoGarrone_7M30...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 21 DECEMBER 2020: Italian director Matteo Garrone (52) - cowriter and director of the live-action film "Pinnocchio" (2019) - poses for a portrait at the Studios, a film studio in Rome, Italy, on December 21st 2020. <br />
<br />
"Pinocchio " was a passion project for Garrone, who drew the first storyboard of the story at the age of six. For this project, Matteo Garrone -  who directed the widely acclaimed “Gomorrah" (2008) and Dogman (2018) among others - and his cowriter Massimo Ceccherini went back to the original  1883 children tale "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi, which is much more complex and darker than the 1940 Disney fable.  In Garrone's version, Pinocchio is played with a woodified face by child actor Federico Ielapi, and his father-creator Geppetto is played by the Oscar-winner Roberto Benigni. The film was first released in Italy in December 2019.   The English version of the movie will be released in the United States and Canada on December 25th 2020.
    CIPG_20201221_NYT-MatteoGarrone_7M30...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 21 DECEMBER 2020: Italian director Matteo Garrone (52) - cowriter and director of the live-action film "Pinnocchio" (2019) - poses for a portrait at the Studios, a film studio in Rome, Italy, on December 21st 2020. <br />
<br />
"Pinocchio " was a passion project for Garrone, who drew the first storyboard of the story at the age of six. For this project, Matteo Garrone -  who directed the widely acclaimed “Gomorrah" (2008) and Dogman (2018) among others - and his cowriter Massimo Ceccherini went back to the original  1883 children tale "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi, which is much more complex and darker than the 1940 Disney fable.  In Garrone's version, Pinocchio is played with a woodified face by child actor Federico Ielapi, and his father-creator Geppetto is played by the Oscar-winner Roberto Benigni. The film was first released in Italy in December 2019.   The English version of the movie will be released in the United States and Canada on December 25th 2020.
    CIPG_20201221_NYT-MatteoGarrone_7M30...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 21 DECEMBER 2020: Italian director Matteo Garrone (52) - cowriter and director of the live-action film "Pinnocchio" (2019) - poses for a portrait at the Studios, a film studio in Rome, Italy, on December 21st 2020. <br />
<br />
"Pinocchio " was a passion project for Garrone, who drew the first storyboard of the story at the age of six. For this project, Matteo Garrone -  who directed the widely acclaimed “Gomorrah" (2008) and Dogman (2018) among others - and his cowriter Massimo Ceccherini went back to the original  1883 children tale "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi, which is much more complex and darker than the 1940 Disney fable.  In Garrone's version, Pinocchio is played with a woodified face by child actor Federico Ielapi, and his father-creator Geppetto is played by the Oscar-winner Roberto Benigni. The film was first released in Italy in December 2019.   The English version of the movie will be released in the United States and Canada on December 25th 2020.
    CIPG_20201221_NYT-MatteoGarrone_7M30...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 21 DECEMBER 2020: Italian director Matteo Garrone (52) - cowriter and director of the live-action film "Pinnocchio" (2019) - poses for a portrait with a storyboard of Pinocchio he made at the age of six years old, at the Studios, a film studio in Rome, Italy, on December 21st 2020. <br />
<br />
"Pinocchio " was a passion project for Garrone, who drew the first storyboard of the story at the age of six. For this project, Matteo Garrone -  who directed the widely acclaimed “Gomorrah" (2008) and Dogman (2018) among others - and his cowriter Massimo Ceccherini went back to the original  1883 children tale "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi, which is much more complex and darker than the 1940 Disney fable.  In Garrone's version, Pinocchio is played with a woodified face by child actor Federico Ielapi, and his father-creator Geppetto is played by the Oscar-winner Roberto Benigni. The film was first released in Italy in December 2019.   The English version of the movie will be released in the United States and Canada on December 25th 2020.
    CIPG_20201221_NYT-MatteoGarrone_7M30...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 21 DECEMBER 2020: Italian director Matteo Garrone (52) - cowriter and director of the live-action film "Pinnocchio" (2019) - poses for a portrait with a storyboard of Pinocchio he made at the age of six years old, at the Studios, a film studio in Rome, Italy, on December 21st 2020. <br />
<br />
"Pinocchio " was a passion project for Garrone, who drew the first storyboard of the story at the age of six. For this project, Matteo Garrone -  who directed the widely acclaimed “Gomorrah" (2008) and Dogman (2018) among others - and his cowriter Massimo Ceccherini went back to the original  1883 children tale "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi, which is much more complex and darker than the 1940 Disney fable.  In Garrone's version, Pinocchio is played with a woodified face by child actor Federico Ielapi, and his father-creator Geppetto is played by the Oscar-winner Roberto Benigni. The film was first released in Italy in December 2019.   The English version of the movie will be released in the United States and Canada on December 25th 2020.
    CIPG_20201221_NYT-MatteoGarrone_7M30...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 21 DECEMBER 2020: Italian director Matteo Garrone (52) - cowriter and director of the live-action film "Pinnocchio" (2019) - poses for a portrait with the wooden puppet used in his film, here at the Studios, a film studio in Rome, Italy, on December 21st 2020. <br />
<br />
"Pinocchio " was a passion project for Garrone, who drew the first storyboard of the story at the age of six. For this project, Matteo Garrone -  who directed the widely acclaimed “Gomorrah" (2008) and Dogman (2018) among others - and his cowriter Massimo Ceccherini went back to the original  1883 children tale "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi, which is much more complex and darker than the 1940 Disney fable.  In Garrone's version, Pinocchio is played with a woodified face by child actor Federico Ielapi, and his father-creator Geppetto is played by the Oscar-winner Roberto Benigni. The film was first released in Italy in December 2019.   The English version of the movie will be released in the United States and Canada on December 25th 2020.
    CIPG_20201221_NYT-MatteoGarrone_7M30...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 21 DECEMBER 2020: Italian director Matteo Garrone (52) - cowriter and director of the live-action film "Pinnocchio" (2019) - poses for a portrait with the wooden puppet used in his film, here at the Studios, a film studio in Rome, Italy, on December 21st 2020. <br />
<br />
"Pinocchio " was a passion project for Garrone, who drew the first storyboard of the story at the age of six. For this project, Matteo Garrone -  who directed the widely acclaimed “Gomorrah" (2008) and Dogman (2018) among others - and his cowriter Massimo Ceccherini went back to the original  1883 children tale "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi, which is much more complex and darker than the 1940 Disney fable.  In Garrone's version, Pinocchio is played with a woodified face by child actor Federico Ielapi, and his father-creator Geppetto is played by the Oscar-winner Roberto Benigni. The film was first released in Italy in December 2019.   The English version of the movie will be released in the United States and Canada on December 25th 2020.
    CIPG_20201221_NYT-MatteoGarrone_7M30...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 21 DECEMBER 2020: Italian director Matteo Garrone (52) - cowriter and director of the live-action film "Pinnocchio" (2019) - poses for a portrait with the wooden puppet used in his film, here at the Studios, a film studio in Rome, Italy, on December 21st 2020. <br />
<br />
"Pinocchio " was a passion project for Garrone, who drew the first storyboard of the story at the age of six. For this project, Matteo Garrone -  who directed the widely acclaimed “Gomorrah" (2008) and Dogman (2018) among others - and his cowriter Massimo Ceccherini went back to the original  1883 children tale "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi, which is much more complex and darker than the 1940 Disney fable.  In Garrone's version, Pinocchio is played with a woodified face by child actor Federico Ielapi, and his father-creator Geppetto is played by the Oscar-winner Roberto Benigni. The film was first released in Italy in December 2019.   The English version of the movie will be released in the United States and Canada on December 25th 2020.
    CIPG_20201221_NYT-MatteoGarrone_7M30...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 21 DECEMBER 2020: Italian director Matteo Garrone (52) - cowriter and director of the live-action film "Pinnocchio" (2019) - poses for a portrait with the wooden puppet used in his film, here at the Studios, a film studio in Rome, Italy, on December 21st 2020. <br />
<br />
"Pinocchio " was a passion project for Garrone, who drew the first storyboard of the story at the age of six. For this project, Matteo Garrone -  who directed the widely acclaimed “Gomorrah" (2008) and Dogman (2018) among others - and his cowriter Massimo Ceccherini went back to the original  1883 children tale "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi, which is much more complex and darker than the 1940 Disney fable.  In Garrone's version, Pinocchio is played with a woodified face by child actor Federico Ielapi, and his father-creator Geppetto is played by the Oscar-winner Roberto Benigni. The film was first released in Italy in December 2019.   The English version of the movie will be released in the United States and Canada on December 25th 2020.
    CIPG_20201221_NYT-MatteoGarrone_7M30...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 21 DECEMBER 2020: Italian director Matteo Garrone (52) - cowriter and director of the live-action film "Pinnocchio" (2019) - poses for a portrait at the Studios, a film studio in Rome, Italy, on December 21st 2020. <br />
<br />
"Pinocchio " was a passion project for Garrone, who drew the first storyboard of the story at the age of six. For this project, Matteo Garrone -  who directed the widely acclaimed “Gomorrah" (2008) and Dogman (2018) among others - and his cowriter Massimo Ceccherini went back to the original  1883 children tale "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi, which is much more complex and darker than the 1940 Disney fable.  In Garrone's version, Pinocchio is played with a woodified face by child actor Federico Ielapi, and his father-creator Geppetto is played by the Oscar-winner Roberto Benigni. The film was first released in Italy in December 2019.   The English version of the movie will be released in the United States and Canada on December 25th 2020.
    CIPG_20201221_NYT-MatteoGarrone_7M30...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 21 DECEMBER 2020: Italian director Matteo Garrone (52) - cowriter and director of the live-action film "Pinnocchio" (2019) - poses for a portrait at the Studios, a film studio in Rome, Italy, on December 21st 2020. <br />
<br />
"Pinocchio " was a passion project for Garrone, who drew the first storyboard of the story at the age of six. For this project, Matteo Garrone -  who directed the widely acclaimed “Gomorrah" (2008) and Dogman (2018) among others - and his cowriter Massimo Ceccherini went back to the original  1883 children tale "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi, which is much more complex and darker than the 1940 Disney fable.  In Garrone's version, Pinocchio is played with a woodified face by child actor Federico Ielapi, and his father-creator Geppetto is played by the Oscar-winner Roberto Benigni. The film was first released in Italy in December 2019.   The English version of the movie will be released in the United States and Canada on December 25th 2020.
    CIPG_20201221_NYT-MatteoGarrone_7M30...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 21 DECEMBER 2020: Italian director Matteo Garrone (52) - cowriter and director of the live-action film "Pinnocchio" (2019) - poses for a portrait at the Studios, a film studio in Rome, Italy, on December 21st 2020. <br />
<br />
"Pinocchio " was a passion project for Garrone, who drew the first storyboard of the story at the age of six. For this project, Matteo Garrone -  who directed the widely acclaimed “Gomorrah" (2008) and Dogman (2018) among others - and his cowriter Massimo Ceccherini went back to the original  1883 children tale "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi, which is much more complex and darker than the 1940 Disney fable.  In Garrone's version, Pinocchio is played with a woodified face by child actor Federico Ielapi, and his father-creator Geppetto is played by the Oscar-winner Roberto Benigni. The film was first released in Italy in December 2019.   The English version of the movie will be released in the United States and Canada on December 25th 2020.
    CIPG_20201221_NYT-MatteoGarrone_7M30...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 21 DECEMBER 2020: Italian director Matteo Garrone (52) - cowriter and director of the live-action film "Pinnocchio" (2019) - poses for a portrait at the Studios, a film studio in Rome, Italy, on December 21st 2020. <br />
<br />
"Pinocchio " was a passion project for Garrone, who drew the first storyboard of the story at the age of six. For this project, Matteo Garrone -  who directed the widely acclaimed “Gomorrah" (2008) and Dogman (2018) among others - and his cowriter Massimo Ceccherini went back to the original  1883 children tale "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi, which is much more complex and darker than the 1940 Disney fable.  In Garrone's version, Pinocchio is played with a woodified face by child actor Federico Ielapi, and his father-creator Geppetto is played by the Oscar-winner Roberto Benigni. The film was first released in Italy in December 2019.   The English version of the movie will be released in the United States and Canada on December 25th 2020.
    CIPG_20201221_NYT-MatteoGarrone_7M30...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 21 DECEMBER 2020: Italian director Matteo Garrone (52) - cowriter and director of the live-action film "Pinnocchio" (2019) - poses for a portrait at the Studios, a film studio in Rome, Italy, on December 21st 2020. <br />
<br />
"Pinocchio " was a passion project for Garrone, who drew the first storyboard of the story at the age of six. For this project, Matteo Garrone -  who directed the widely acclaimed “Gomorrah" (2008) and Dogman (2018) among others - and his cowriter Massimo Ceccherini went back to the original  1883 children tale "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi, which is much more complex and darker than the 1940 Disney fable.  In Garrone's version, Pinocchio is played with a woodified face by child actor Federico Ielapi, and his father-creator Geppetto is played by the Oscar-winner Roberto Benigni. The film was first released in Italy in December 2019.   The English version of the movie will be released in the United States and Canada on December 25th 2020.
    CIPG_20201221_NYT-MatteoGarrone_7M30...jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 29 JUNE 2016: A visitor photographs the "Bacchus" (1595) by Caravaggio at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, on June 29th 2016.<br />
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Art historian Eike Schmidt, former curator and head of the Department of Sculpture, Applied Art and Textiles at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, became the first non-Italian director of the Uffizi in August 2015, replacing Antonio Natali who directed the gallery for 9 years. One of the main goals of the new director is to open the Vasari Corridor to the general public. Currently the corridor can only be visited with group reservations made by external tour and travel agencies throughout the year.<br />
<br />
The Vasari Corridor is is a 1-kilometer-long (more than half mile) elevated enclosed passageway which connects the Palazzo Vecchio with the Palazzo Pitti, passing through the Uffizi Gallery and crossing the Ponte Vecchio above the Arno River, in Florence. The passageway was designed and built in 1564 by Giorgio Vasari in only 6 months to allow Cosimo de’ Medici and other Florentine elite to walk safely through the city, from the seat of power in Palazzo Vecchio to their private residence, Palazzo Pitti. The passageway contains over 1000 paintings, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, including the largest and very important collection of self-portraits by some of the most famous masters of painting from the 16th to the 20th century, including Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Delacroix and Ensor.
    CIPG_20160629_NYT-Uffizi_5M3_5379.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 29 JUNE 2016: A vistor looks at a painting in the "Michelangelo and the Florentines" in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, on June 29th 2016.<br />
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Art historian Eike Schmidt, former curator and head of the Department of Sculpture, Applied Art and Textiles at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, became the first non-Italian director of the Uffizi in August 2015, replacing Antonio Natali who directed the gallery for 9 years. One of the main goals of the new director is to open the Vasari Corridor to the general public. Currently the corridor can only be visited with group reservations made by external tour and travel agencies throughout the year.<br />
<br />
The Vasari Corridor is is a 1-kilometer-long (more than half mile) elevated enclosed passageway which connects the Palazzo Vecchio with the Palazzo Pitti, passing through the Uffizi Gallery and crossing the Ponte Vecchio above the Arno River, in Florence. The passageway was designed and built in 1564 by Giorgio Vasari in only 6 months to allow Cosimo de’ Medici and other Florentine elite to walk safely through the city, from the seat of power in Palazzo Vecchio to their private residence, Palazzo Pitti. The passageway contains over 1000 paintings, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, including the largest and very important collection of self-portraits by some of the most famous masters of painting from the 16th to the 20th century, including Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Delacroix and Ensor.
    CIPG_20160629_NYT-Uffizi_5M3_5277.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 29 JUNE 2016: Visitors are here by a window overlooking the Vasari Corridor and the Arno river, at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, on June 29th 2016.<br />
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Art historian Eike Schmidt, former curator and head of the Department of Sculpture, Applied Art and Textiles at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, became the first non-Italian director of the Uffizi in August 2015, replacing Antonio Natali who directed the gallery for 9 years. One of the main goals of the new director is to open the Vasari Corridor to the general public. Currently the corridor can only be visited with group reservations made by external tour and travel agencies throughout the year.<br />
<br />
The Vasari Corridor is is a 1-kilometer-long (more than half mile) elevated enclosed passageway which connects the Palazzo Vecchio with the Palazzo Pitti, passing through the Uffizi Gallery and crossing the Ponte Vecchio above the Arno River, in Florence. The passageway was designed and built in 1564 by Giorgio Vasari in only 6 months to allow Cosimo de’ Medici and other Florentine elite to walk safely through the city, from the seat of power in Palazzo Vecchio to their private residence, Palazzo Pitti. The passageway contains over 1000 paintings, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, including the largest and very important collection of self-portraits by some of the most famous masters of painting from the 16th to the 20th century, including Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Delacroix and Ensor.
    CIPG_20160629_NYT-Uffizi_5M3_5228.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 29 JUNE 2016: A visitor walks through the “Karl Lagerfeld – Visions of Fashion” photography exhibition hosted by Palazzo Pitti in Florence, Italy, on June 29th 2016.<br />
<br />
Art historian Eike Schmidt, former curator and head of the Department of Sculpture, Applied Art and Textiles at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, became the first non-Italian director of the Uffizi in August 2015, replacing Antonio Natali who directed the gallery for 9 years. One of the main goals of the new director is to open the Vasari Corridor to the general public. Currently the corridor can only be visited with group reservations made by external tour and travel agencies throughout the year.<br />
<br />
The Vasari Corridor is is a 1-kilometer-long (more than half mile) elevated enclosed passageway which connects the Palazzo Vecchio with the Palazzo Pitti, passing through the Uffizi Gallery and crossing the Ponte Vecchio above the Arno River, in Florence. The passageway was designed and built in 1564 by Giorgio Vasari in only 6 months to allow Cosimo de’ Medici and other Florentine elite to walk safely through the city, from the seat of power in Palazzo Vecchio to their private residence, Palazzo Pitti. The passageway contains over 1000 paintings, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, including the largest and very important collection of self-portraits by some of the most famous masters of painting from the 16th to the 20th century, including Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Delacroix and Ensor.
    CIPG_20160629_NYT-Uffizi_5M3_4926.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 29 JUNE 2016: Organised groups wait in line to visit the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, on June 29th 2016.<br />
<br />
Art historian Eike Schmidt, former curator and head of the Department of Sculpture, Applied Art and Textiles at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, became the first non-Italian director of the Uffizi in August 2015, replacing Antonio Natali who directed the gallery for 9 years. One of the main goals of the new director is to open the Vasari Corridor to the general public. Currently the corridor can only be visited with group reservations made by external tour and travel agencies throughout the year.<br />
<br />
The Vasari Corridor is is a 1-kilometer-long (more than half mile) elevated enclosed passageway which connects the Palazzo Vecchio with the Palazzo Pitti, passing through the Uffizi Gallery and crossing the Ponte Vecchio above the Arno River, in Florence. The passageway was designed and built in 1564 by Giorgio Vasari in only 6 months to allow Cosimo de’ Medici and other Florentine elite to walk safely through the city, from the seat of power in Palazzo Vecchio to their private residence, Palazzo Pitti. The passageway contains over 1000 paintings, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, including the largest and very important collection of self-portraits by some of the most famous masters of painting from the 16th to the 20th century, including Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Delacroix and Ensor.
    CIPG_20160629_NYT-Uffizi_5M3_4907.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 29 JUNE 2016: Visitors are here in line to purchase a ticket at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, on June 29th 2016.<br />
<br />
Art historian Eike Schmidt, former curator and head of the Department of Sculpture, Applied Art and Textiles at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, became the first non-Italian director of the Uffizi in August 2015, replacing Antonio Natali who directed the gallery for 9 years. One of the main goals of the new director is to open the Vasari Corridor to the general public. Currently the corridor can only be visited with group reservations made by external tour and travel agencies throughout the year.<br />
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The Vasari Corridor is is a 1-kilometer-long (more than half mile) elevated enclosed passageway which connects the Palazzo Vecchio with the Palazzo Pitti, passing through the Uffizi Gallery and crossing the Ponte Vecchio above the Arno River, in Florence. The passageway was designed and built in 1564 by Giorgio Vasari in only 6 months to allow Cosimo de’ Medici and other Florentine elite to walk safely through the city, from the seat of power in Palazzo Vecchio to their private residence, Palazzo Pitti. The passageway contains over 1000 paintings, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, including the largest and very important collection of self-portraits by some of the most famous masters of painting from the 16th to the 20th century, including Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Delacroix and Ensor.
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  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 29 JUNE 2016: The collection of self-portraits by the masters of painting from the 16th to the 20th century, is seen here in the Vasar Corrdiror in Florence, Italy, on June 29th 2016.<br />
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Art historian Eike Schmidt, former curator and head of the Department of Sculpture, Applied Art and Textiles at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, became the first non-Italian director of the Uffizi in August 2015, replacing Antonio Natali who directed the gallery for 9 years. One of the main goals of the new director is to open the Vasari Corridor to the general public. Currently the corridor can only be visited with group reservations made by external tour and travel agencies throughout the year.<br />
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The Vasari Corridor is is a 1-kilometer-long (more than half mile) elevated enclosed passageway which connects the Palazzo Vecchio with the Palazzo Pitti, passing through the Uffizi Gallery and crossing the Ponte Vecchio above the Arno River, in Florence. The passageway was designed and built in 1564 by Giorgio Vasari in only 6 months to allow Cosimo de’ Medici and other Florentine elite to walk safely through the city, from the seat of power in Palazzo Vecchio to their private residence, Palazzo Pitti. The passageway contains over 1000 paintings, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, including the largest and very important collection of self-portraits by some of the most famous masters of painting from the 16th to the 20th century, including Filippo Lippi, Rembrandt, Velazquez, Delacroix and Ensor.
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  • ROME, ITALY - 12 MARCH 2013: Music director Riccardo Muti, 71, poses in his dressing room during the second interval of  "I Due Foscari", an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi, at the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, Italy, on March 12, 2013... Riccardo Muti, Music Director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, has accepted the title of Honorary Director for Life of the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome...Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
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  • ROME, ITALY - 12 MARCH 2013: Music director Riccardo Muti, 71, directs the third and last act of  "I Due Foscari", an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi, at the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, Italy, on March 12, 2013... Riccardo Muti, Music Director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, has accepted the title of Honorary Director for Life of the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome...Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
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  • ROME, ITALY - 12 MARCH 2013: Music director Riccardo Muti, 71, walks from his dressing room towards the orchestra for the third and final act of "I Due Foscari", an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi, at the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, Italy, on March 12, 2013... Riccardo Muti, Music Director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, has accepted the title of Honorary Director for Life of the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome...Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
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  • ROME, ITALY - 12 MARCH 2013: Music director Riccardo Muti, 71, walks from his dressing room towards the orchestra for the third and final act of "I Due Foscari", an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi, at the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, Italy, on March 12, 2013... Riccardo Muti, Music Director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, has accepted the title of Honorary Director for Life of the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome...Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
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  • ROME, ITALY - 12 MARCH 2013: Music director Riccardo Muti, 71, walks from his dressing room towards the orchestra for the third and final act of "I Due Foscari", an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi, at the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, Italy, on March 12, 2013... Riccardo Muti, Music Director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, has accepted the title of Honorary Director for Life of the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome...Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
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  • ROME, ITALY - 12 MARCH 2013: Music director Riccardo Muti, 71, directs the first act of  "I Due Foscari", an opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi, at the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, Italy, on March 12, 2013... Riccardo Muti, Music Director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, has accepted the title of Honorary Director for Life of the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome...Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
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  • ROME, ITALY - 21 DECEMBER 2020: Italian director Matteo Garrone (52) - cowriter and director of the live-action film "Pinnocchio" (2019) - poses for a portrait at the Studios, a film studio in Rome, Italy, on December 21st 2020. <br />
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"Pinocchio " was a passion project for Garrone, who drew the first storyboard of the story at the age of six. For this project, Matteo Garrone -  who directed the widely acclaimed “Gomorrah" (2008) and Dogman (2018) among others - and his cowriter Massimo Ceccherini went back to the original  1883 children tale "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi, which is much more complex and darker than the 1940 Disney fable.  In Garrone's version, Pinocchio is played with a woodified face by child actor Federico Ielapi, and his father-creator Geppetto is played by the Oscar-winner Roberto Benigni. The film was first released in Italy in December 2019.   The English version of the movie will be released in the United States and Canada on December 25th 2020.
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  • ROME, ITALY - 21 DECEMBER 2020: Italian director Matteo Garrone (52) - cowriter and director of the live-action film "Pinnocchio" (2019) - poses for a portrait at the Studios, a film studio in Rome, Italy, on December 21st 2020. <br />
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"Pinocchio " was a passion project for Garrone, who drew the first storyboard of the story at the age of six. For this project, Matteo Garrone -  who directed the widely acclaimed “Gomorrah" (2008) and Dogman (2018) among others - and his cowriter Massimo Ceccherini went back to the original  1883 children tale "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi, which is much more complex and darker than the 1940 Disney fable.  In Garrone's version, Pinocchio is played with a woodified face by child actor Federico Ielapi, and his father-creator Geppetto is played by the Oscar-winner Roberto Benigni. The film was first released in Italy in December 2019.   The English version of the movie will be released in the United States and Canada on December 25th 2020.
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  • ROME, ITALY - 21 DECEMBER 2020: Italian director Matteo Garrone (52) - cowriter and director of the live-action film "Pinnocchio" (2019) - poses for a portrait at the Studios, a film studio in Rome, Italy, on December 21st 2020. <br />
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"Pinocchio " was a passion project for Garrone, who drew the first storyboard of the story at the age of six. For this project, Matteo Garrone -  who directed the widely acclaimed “Gomorrah" (2008) and Dogman (2018) among others - and his cowriter Massimo Ceccherini went back to the original  1883 children tale "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi, which is much more complex and darker than the 1940 Disney fable.  In Garrone's version, Pinocchio is played with a woodified face by child actor Federico Ielapi, and his father-creator Geppetto is played by the Oscar-winner Roberto Benigni. The film was first released in Italy in December 2019.   The English version of the movie will be released in the United States and Canada on December 25th 2020.
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  • ROME, ITALY - 21 DECEMBER 2020: Italian director Matteo Garrone (52) - cowriter and director of the live-action film "Pinnocchio" (2019) - poses for a portrait at the Studios, a film studio in Rome, Italy, on December 21st 2020. <br />
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"Pinocchio " was a passion project for Garrone, who drew the first storyboard of the story at the age of six. For this project, Matteo Garrone -  who directed the widely acclaimed “Gomorrah" (2008) and Dogman (2018) among others - and his cowriter Massimo Ceccherini went back to the original  1883 children tale "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi, which is much more complex and darker than the 1940 Disney fable.  In Garrone's version, Pinocchio is played with a woodified face by child actor Federico Ielapi, and his father-creator Geppetto is played by the Oscar-winner Roberto Benigni. The film was first released in Italy in December 2019.   The English version of the movie will be released in the United States and Canada on December 25th 2020.
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  • ROME, ITALY - 21 DECEMBER 2020: Italian director Matteo Garrone (52) - cowriter and director of the live-action film "Pinnocchio" (2019) - poses for a portrait at the Studios, a film studio in Rome, Italy, on December 21st 2020. <br />
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"Pinocchio " was a passion project for Garrone, who drew the first storyboard of the story at the age of six. For this project, Matteo Garrone -  who directed the widely acclaimed “Gomorrah" (2008) and Dogman (2018) among others - and his cowriter Massimo Ceccherini went back to the original  1883 children tale "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi, which is much more complex and darker than the 1940 Disney fable.  In Garrone's version, Pinocchio is played with a woodified face by child actor Federico Ielapi, and his father-creator Geppetto is played by the Oscar-winner Roberto Benigni. The film was first released in Italy in December 2019.   The English version of the movie will be released in the United States and Canada on December 25th 2020.
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  • ROME, ITALY - 21 DECEMBER 2020: Italian director Matteo Garrone (52) - cowriter and director of the live-action film "Pinnocchio" (2019) - poses for a portrait at the Studios, a film studio in Rome, Italy, on December 21st 2020. <br />
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"Pinocchio " was a passion project for Garrone, who drew the first storyboard of the story at the age of six. For this project, Matteo Garrone -  who directed the widely acclaimed “Gomorrah" (2008) and Dogman (2018) among others - and his cowriter Massimo Ceccherini went back to the original  1883 children tale "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi, which is much more complex and darker than the 1940 Disney fable.  In Garrone's version, Pinocchio is played with a woodified face by child actor Federico Ielapi, and his father-creator Geppetto is played by the Oscar-winner Roberto Benigni. The film was first released in Italy in December 2019.   The English version of the movie will be released in the United States and Canada on December 25th 2020.
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  • ROME, ITALY - 21 DECEMBER 2020: Italian director Matteo Garrone (52) - cowriter and director of the live-action film "Pinnocchio" (2019) - poses for a portrait at the Studios, a film studio in Rome, Italy, on December 21st 2020. <br />
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"Pinocchio " was a passion project for Garrone, who drew the first storyboard of the story at the age of six. For this project, Matteo Garrone -  who directed the widely acclaimed “Gomorrah" (2008) and Dogman (2018) among others - and his cowriter Massimo Ceccherini went back to the original  1883 children tale "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi, which is much more complex and darker than the 1940 Disney fable.  In Garrone's version, Pinocchio is played with a woodified face by child actor Federico Ielapi, and his father-creator Geppetto is played by the Oscar-winner Roberto Benigni. The film was first released in Italy in December 2019.   The English version of the movie will be released in the United States and Canada on December 25th 2020.
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  • ROME, ITALY - 21 DECEMBER 2020: Italian director Matteo Garrone (52) - cowriter and director of the live-action film "Pinnocchio" (2019) - poses for a portrait at the Studios, a film studio in Rome, Italy, on December 21st 2020. <br />
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"Pinocchio " was a passion project for Garrone, who drew the first storyboard of the story at the age of six. For this project, Matteo Garrone -  who directed the widely acclaimed “Gomorrah" (2008) and Dogman (2018) among others - and his cowriter Massimo Ceccherini went back to the original  1883 children tale "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi, which is much more complex and darker than the 1940 Disney fable.  In Garrone's version, Pinocchio is played with a woodified face by child actor Federico Ielapi, and his father-creator Geppetto is played by the Oscar-winner Roberto Benigni. The film was first released in Italy in December 2019.   The English version of the movie will be released in the United States and Canada on December 25th 2020.
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  • ROME, ITALY - 21 DECEMBER 2020: Italian director Matteo Garrone (52) - cowriter and director of the live-action film "Pinnocchio" (2019) - poses for a portrait at the Studios, a film studio in Rome, Italy, on December 21st 2020. <br />
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"Pinocchio " was a passion project for Garrone, who drew the first storyboard of the story at the age of six. For this project, Matteo Garrone -  who directed the widely acclaimed “Gomorrah" (2008) and Dogman (2018) among others - and his cowriter Massimo Ceccherini went back to the original  1883 children tale "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi, which is much more complex and darker than the 1940 Disney fable.  In Garrone's version, Pinocchio is played with a woodified face by child actor Federico Ielapi, and his father-creator Geppetto is played by the Oscar-winner Roberto Benigni. The film was first released in Italy in December 2019.   The English version of the movie will be released in the United States and Canada on December 25th 2020.
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  • ROME, ITALY - 21 DECEMBER 2020: Italian director Matteo Garrone (52) - cowriter and director of the live-action film "Pinnocchio" (2019) - poses for a portrait at the Studios, a film studio in Rome, Italy, on December 21st 2020. <br />
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"Pinocchio " was a passion project for Garrone, who drew the first storyboard of the story at the age of six. For this project, Matteo Garrone -  who directed the widely acclaimed “Gomorrah" (2008) and Dogman (2018) among others - and his cowriter Massimo Ceccherini went back to the original  1883 children tale "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi, which is much more complex and darker than the 1940 Disney fable.  In Garrone's version, Pinocchio is played with a woodified face by child actor Federico Ielapi, and his father-creator Geppetto is played by the Oscar-winner Roberto Benigni. The film was first released in Italy in December 2019.   The English version of the movie will be released in the United States and Canada on December 25th 2020.
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  • ROME, ITALY - 21 DECEMBER 2020: Italian director Matteo Garrone (52) - cowriter and director of the live-action film "Pinnocchio" (2019) - poses for a portrait at the Studios, a film studio in Rome, Italy, on December 21st 2020. <br />
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"Pinocchio " was a passion project for Garrone, who drew the first storyboard of the story at the age of six. For this project, Matteo Garrone -  who directed the widely acclaimed “Gomorrah" (2008) and Dogman (2018) among others - and his cowriter Massimo Ceccherini went back to the original  1883 children tale "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi, which is much more complex and darker than the 1940 Disney fable.  In Garrone's version, Pinocchio is played with a woodified face by child actor Federico Ielapi, and his father-creator Geppetto is played by the Oscar-winner Roberto Benigni. The film was first released in Italy in December 2019.   The English version of the movie will be released in the United States and Canada on December 25th 2020.
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  • ROME, ITALY - 21 DECEMBER 2020: Italian director Matteo Garrone (52) - cowriter and director of the live-action film "Pinnocchio" (2019) - poses for a portrait with a storyboard of Pinocchio he made at the age of six years old, at the Studios, a film studio in Rome, Italy, on December 21st 2020. <br />
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"Pinocchio " was a passion project for Garrone, who drew the first storyboard of the story at the age of six. For this project, Matteo Garrone -  who directed the widely acclaimed “Gomorrah" (2008) and Dogman (2018) among others - and his cowriter Massimo Ceccherini went back to the original  1883 children tale "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi, which is much more complex and darker than the 1940 Disney fable.  In Garrone's version, Pinocchio is played with a woodified face by child actor Federico Ielapi, and his father-creator Geppetto is played by the Oscar-winner Roberto Benigni. The film was first released in Italy in December 2019.   The English version of the movie will be released in the United States and Canada on December 25th 2020.
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  • ROME, ITALY - 21 DECEMBER 2020: Italian director Matteo Garrone (52) - cowriter and director of the live-action film "Pinnocchio" (2019) - poses for a portrait at the Studios, a film studio in Rome, Italy, on December 21st 2020. <br />
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"Pinocchio " was a passion project for Garrone, who drew the first storyboard of the story at the age of six. For this project, Matteo Garrone -  who directed the widely acclaimed “Gomorrah" (2008) and Dogman (2018) among others - and his cowriter Massimo Ceccherini went back to the original  1883 children tale "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi, which is much more complex and darker than the 1940 Disney fable.  In Garrone's version, Pinocchio is played with a woodified face by child actor Federico Ielapi, and his father-creator Geppetto is played by the Oscar-winner Roberto Benigni. The film was first released in Italy in December 2019.   The English version of the movie will be released in the United States and Canada on December 25th 2020.
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  • ROME, ITALY - 21 DECEMBER 2020: Italian director Matteo Garrone (52) - cowriter and director of the live-action film "Pinnocchio" (2019) - poses for a portrait at the Studios, a film studio in Rome, Italy, on December 21st 2020. <br />
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"Pinocchio " was a passion project for Garrone, who drew the first storyboard of the story at the age of six. For this project, Matteo Garrone -  who directed the widely acclaimed “Gomorrah" (2008) and Dogman (2018) among others - and his cowriter Massimo Ceccherini went back to the original  1883 children tale "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi, which is much more complex and darker than the 1940 Disney fable.  In Garrone's version, Pinocchio is played with a woodified face by child actor Federico Ielapi, and his father-creator Geppetto is played by the Oscar-winner Roberto Benigni. The film was first released in Italy in December 2019.   The English version of the movie will be released in the United States and Canada on December 25th 2020.
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  • ROME, ITALY - 21 DECEMBER 2020: Italian director Matteo Garrone (52) - cowriter and director of the live-action film "Pinnocchio" (2019) - poses for a portrait with the wooden puppet used in his film, here at the Studios, a film studio in Rome, Italy, on December 21st 2020. <br />
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"Pinocchio " was a passion project for Garrone, who drew the first storyboard of the story at the age of six. For this project, Matteo Garrone -  who directed the widely acclaimed “Gomorrah" (2008) and Dogman (2018) among others - and his cowriter Massimo Ceccherini went back to the original  1883 children tale "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi, which is much more complex and darker than the 1940 Disney fable.  In Garrone's version, Pinocchio is played with a woodified face by child actor Federico Ielapi, and his father-creator Geppetto is played by the Oscar-winner Roberto Benigni. The film was first released in Italy in December 2019.   The English version of the movie will be released in the United States and Canada on December 25th 2020.
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  • ROME, ITALY - 21 DECEMBER 2020: Italian director Matteo Garrone (52) - cowriter and director of the live-action film "Pinnocchio" (2019) - poses for a portrait with the wooden puppet used in his film, here at the Studios, a film studio in Rome, Italy, on December 21st 2020. <br />
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"Pinocchio " was a passion project for Garrone, who drew the first storyboard of the story at the age of six. For this project, Matteo Garrone -  who directed the widely acclaimed “Gomorrah" (2008) and Dogman (2018) among others - and his cowriter Massimo Ceccherini went back to the original  1883 children tale "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi, which is much more complex and darker than the 1940 Disney fable.  In Garrone's version, Pinocchio is played with a woodified face by child actor Federico Ielapi, and his father-creator Geppetto is played by the Oscar-winner Roberto Benigni. The film was first released in Italy in December 2019.   The English version of the movie will be released in the United States and Canada on December 25th 2020.
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  • ROME, ITALY - 21 DECEMBER 2020: Italian director Matteo Garrone (52) - cowriter and director of the live-action film "Pinnocchio" (2019) - poses for a portrait with the wooden puppet used in his film, here at the Studios, a film studio in Rome, Italy, on December 21st 2020. <br />
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"Pinocchio " was a passion project for Garrone, who drew the first storyboard of the story at the age of six. For this project, Matteo Garrone -  who directed the widely acclaimed “Gomorrah" (2008) and Dogman (2018) among others - and his cowriter Massimo Ceccherini went back to the original  1883 children tale "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi, which is much more complex and darker than the 1940 Disney fable.  In Garrone's version, Pinocchio is played with a woodified face by child actor Federico Ielapi, and his father-creator Geppetto is played by the Oscar-winner Roberto Benigni. The film was first released in Italy in December 2019.   The English version of the movie will be released in the United States and Canada on December 25th 2020.
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  • ROME, ITALY - 21 DECEMBER 2020: Italian director Matteo Garrone (52) - cowriter and director of the live-action film "Pinnocchio" (2019) - poses for a portrait with the wooden puppet used in his film, here at the Studios, a film studio in Rome, Italy, on December 21st 2020. <br />
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"Pinocchio " was a passion project for Garrone, who drew the first storyboard of the story at the age of six. For this project, Matteo Garrone -  who directed the widely acclaimed “Gomorrah" (2008) and Dogman (2018) among others - and his cowriter Massimo Ceccherini went back to the original  1883 children tale "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi, which is much more complex and darker than the 1940 Disney fable.  In Garrone's version, Pinocchio is played with a woodified face by child actor Federico Ielapi, and his father-creator Geppetto is played by the Oscar-winner Roberto Benigni. The film was first released in Italy in December 2019.   The English version of the movie will be released in the United States and Canada on December 25th 2020.
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  • ROME, ITALY - 21 DECEMBER 2020: Italian director Matteo Garrone (52) - cowriter and director of the live-action film "Pinnocchio" (2019) - poses for a portrait with the wooden puppet used in his film, here at the Studios, a film studio in Rome, Italy, on December 21st 2020. <br />
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"Pinocchio " was a passion project for Garrone, who drew the first storyboard of the story at the age of six. For this project, Matteo Garrone -  who directed the widely acclaimed “Gomorrah" (2008) and Dogman (2018) among others - and his cowriter Massimo Ceccherini went back to the original  1883 children tale "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi, which is much more complex and darker than the 1940 Disney fable.  In Garrone's version, Pinocchio is played with a woodified face by child actor Federico Ielapi, and his father-creator Geppetto is played by the Oscar-winner Roberto Benigni. The film was first released in Italy in December 2019.   The English version of the movie will be released in the United States and Canada on December 25th 2020.
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  • ROME, ITALY - 21 DECEMBER 2020: Italian director Matteo Garrone (52) - cowriter and director of the live-action film "Pinnocchio" (2019) - poses for a portrait with the wooden puppet used in his film, here at the Studios, a film studio in Rome, Italy, on December 21st 2020. <br />
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"Pinocchio " was a passion project for Garrone, who drew the first storyboard of the story at the age of six. For this project, Matteo Garrone -  who directed the widely acclaimed “Gomorrah" (2008) and Dogman (2018) among others - and his cowriter Massimo Ceccherini went back to the original  1883 children tale "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi, which is much more complex and darker than the 1940 Disney fable.  In Garrone's version, Pinocchio is played with a woodified face by child actor Federico Ielapi, and his father-creator Geppetto is played by the Oscar-winner Roberto Benigni. The film was first released in Italy in December 2019.   The English version of the movie will be released in the United States and Canada on December 25th 2020.
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  • ROME, ITALY - 21 DECEMBER 2020: Italian director Matteo Garrone (52) - cowriter and director of the live-action film "Pinnocchio" (2019) - poses for a portrait with the wooden puppet used in his film, here at the Studios, a film studio in Rome, Italy, on December 21st 2020. <br />
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"Pinocchio " was a passion project for Garrone, who drew the first storyboard of the story at the age of six. For this project, Matteo Garrone -  who directed the widely acclaimed “Gomorrah" (2008) and Dogman (2018) among others - and his cowriter Massimo Ceccherini went back to the original  1883 children tale "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi, which is much more complex and darker than the 1940 Disney fable.  In Garrone's version, Pinocchio is played with a woodified face by child actor Federico Ielapi, and his father-creator Geppetto is played by the Oscar-winner Roberto Benigni. The film was first released in Italy in December 2019.   The English version of the movie will be released in the United States and Canada on December 25th 2020.
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  • ROME, ITALY - 21 DECEMBER 2020: Italian director Matteo Garrone (52) - cowriter and director of the live-action film "Pinnocchio" (2019) - poses for a portrait with the wooden puppet used in his film, here at the Studios, a film studio in Rome, Italy, on December 21st 2020. <br />
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"Pinocchio " was a passion project for Garrone, who drew the first storyboard of the story at the age of six. For this project, Matteo Garrone -  who directed the widely acclaimed “Gomorrah" (2008) and Dogman (2018) among others - and his cowriter Massimo Ceccherini went back to the original  1883 children tale "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi, which is much more complex and darker than the 1940 Disney fable.  In Garrone's version, Pinocchio is played with a woodified face by child actor Federico Ielapi, and his father-creator Geppetto is played by the Oscar-winner Roberto Benigni. The film was first released in Italy in December 2019.   The English version of the movie will be released in the United States and Canada on December 25th 2020.
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  • ROME, ITALY - 21 DECEMBER 2020: Italian director Matteo Garrone (52) - cowriter and director of the live-action film "Pinnocchio" (2019) - poses for a portrait with the wooden puppet used in his film, here at the Studios, a film studio in Rome, Italy, on December 21st 2020. <br />
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"Pinocchio " was a passion project for Garrone, who drew the first storyboard of the story at the age of six. For this project, Matteo Garrone -  who directed the widely acclaimed “Gomorrah" (2008) and Dogman (2018) among others - and his cowriter Massimo Ceccherini went back to the original  1883 children tale "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi, which is much more complex and darker than the 1940 Disney fable.  In Garrone's version, Pinocchio is played with a woodified face by child actor Federico Ielapi, and his father-creator Geppetto is played by the Oscar-winner Roberto Benigni. The film was first released in Italy in December 2019.   The English version of the movie will be released in the United States and Canada on December 25th 2020.
    CIPG_20201221_NYT-MatteoGarrone_7M30...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 21 DECEMBER 2020: Italian director Matteo Garrone (52) - cowriter and director of the live-action film "Pinnocchio" (2019) - poses for a portrait with the wooden puppet used in his film, here at the Studios, a film studio in Rome, Italy, on December 21st 2020. <br />
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"Pinocchio " was a passion project for Garrone, who drew the first storyboard of the story at the age of six. For this project, Matteo Garrone -  who directed the widely acclaimed “Gomorrah" (2008) and Dogman (2018) among others - and his cowriter Massimo Ceccherini went back to the original  1883 children tale "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi, which is much more complex and darker than the 1940 Disney fable.  In Garrone's version, Pinocchio is played with a woodified face by child actor Federico Ielapi, and his father-creator Geppetto is played by the Oscar-winner Roberto Benigni. The film was first released in Italy in December 2019.   The English version of the movie will be released in the United States and Canada on December 25th 2020.
    CIPG_20201221_NYT-MatteoGarrone_7M30...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 21 DECEMBER 2020: Italian director Matteo Garrone (52) - cowriter and director of the live-action film "Pinnocchio" (2019) - poses for a portrait with the wooden puppet used in his film, here at the Studios, a film studio in Rome, Italy, on December 21st 2020. <br />
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"Pinocchio " was a passion project for Garrone, who drew the first storyboard of the story at the age of six. For this project, Matteo Garrone -  who directed the widely acclaimed “Gomorrah" (2008) and Dogman (2018) among others - and his cowriter Massimo Ceccherini went back to the original  1883 children tale "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi, which is much more complex and darker than the 1940 Disney fable.  In Garrone's version, Pinocchio is played with a woodified face by child actor Federico Ielapi, and his father-creator Geppetto is played by the Oscar-winner Roberto Benigni. The film was first released in Italy in December 2019.   The English version of the movie will be released in the United States and Canada on December 25th 2020.
    CIPG_20201221_NYT-MatteoGarrone_7M30...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 21 DECEMBER 2020: Italian director Matteo Garrone (52) - cowriter and director of the live-action film "Pinnocchio" (2019) - poses for a portrait with the wooden puppet used in his film, here at the Studios, a film studio in Rome, Italy, on December 21st 2020. <br />
<br />
"Pinocchio " was a passion project for Garrone, who drew the first storyboard of the story at the age of six. For this project, Matteo Garrone -  who directed the widely acclaimed “Gomorrah" (2008) and Dogman (2018) among others - and his cowriter Massimo Ceccherini went back to the original  1883 children tale "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi, which is much more complex and darker than the 1940 Disney fable.  In Garrone's version, Pinocchio is played with a woodified face by child actor Federico Ielapi, and his father-creator Geppetto is played by the Oscar-winner Roberto Benigni. The film was first released in Italy in December 2019.   The English version of the movie will be released in the United States and Canada on December 25th 2020.
    CIPG_20201221_NYT-MatteoGarrone_7M30...jpg
  • ROME, ITALY - 21 DECEMBER 2020: Italian director Matteo Garrone (52) - cowriter and director of the live-action film "Pinnocchio" (2019) - poses for a portrait with the wooden puppet used in his film, here at the Studios, a film studio in Rome, Italy, on December 21st 2020. <br />
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"Pinocchio " was a passion project for Garrone, who drew the first storyboard of the story at the age of six. For this project, Matteo Garrone -  who directed the widely acclaimed “Gomorrah" (2008) and Dogman (2018) among others - and his cowriter Massimo Ceccherini went back to the original  1883 children tale "The Adventures of Pinocchio" by Carlo Collodi, which is much more complex and darker than the 1940 Disney fable.  In Garrone's version, Pinocchio is played with a woodified face by child actor Federico Ielapi, and his father-creator Geppetto is played by the Oscar-winner Roberto Benigni. The film was first released in Italy in December 2019.   The English version of the movie will be released in the United States and Canada on December 25th 2020.
    CIPG_20201221_NYT-MatteoGarrone_7M30...jpg
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