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  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 3 JUNE 2018: Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt poses for a portrait in the Hall of Saturn at Palazzo Pitti before overseeing the transportation of dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi, painted by Raphael, to their new location at room 41 of the Uffizi, in Florence, Italy, on June 3rd 2018.<br />
<br />
As of Monday June 4th 2018, Room 41 or the “Raphael and Michelangelo room” of the Uffizi is part of the rearrangement of the museum's collection that has<br />
been defining Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt’s grander vision for the Florentine museum.<br />
Next month, the museum’s Leonardo three paintings will be installed in a<br />
nearby room. Together, these artists capture “a magic moment in the<br />
first decade of the 16th century when Florence was the cultural and<br />
artistic center of the world,” Mr. Schmidt said. Room 41 hosts, among other paintings, the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi painted by Raphael round 1504-1505, and the “Holy Family”, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple a year later, known as the<br />
Doni Tondo.
    CIPG_20180603_NYT-Uffizi_M3_5322.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 - 3 JUNE 2018: Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt poses for a portrait at the Uffizi, in Florence, Italy, on June 3rd 2018.<br />
<br />
As of Monday June 4th 2018, Room 41 or the “Raphael and Michelangelo room” of the Uffizi is part of the rearrangement of the museum's collection that has<br />
been defining Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt’s grander vision for the Florentine museum.<br />
Next month, the museum’s Leonardo three paintings will be installed in a<br />
nearby room. Together, these artists capture “a magic moment in the<br />
first decade of the 16th century when Florence was the cultural and<br />
artistic center of the world,” Mr. Schmidt said. Room 41 hosts, among other paintings, the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi painted by Raphael round 1504-1505, and the “Holy Family”, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple a year later, known as the<br />
Doni Tondo.
    CIPG_20180603_NYT-Uffizi_M3_5859.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 29 JUNE 2016: Visitors photograph and look at the "Birth of Venus" (1484) by Sandro Botticelli, in the Botticelli room 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_20160629_NYT-Uffizi_5M3_5346.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 29 JUNE 2016: Visitors photograph the "Birth of Venus" (1484) by Sandro Botticelli, in the Botticelli room 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_20160629_NYT-Uffizi_5M3_5284.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 29 JUNE 2016: Visitors have a break  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_20160628_NYT-Uffizi_5M3_4338.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 3 JUNE 2018: A visitor looks at the “Holy Family”, also known as the Doni Tondo, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple around 1503-1504,  here in its new location in room 41at the Uffizi, in Florence, Italy, on June 3rd 2018.<br />
<br />
As of Monday June 4th 2018, Room 41 or the “Raphael and Michelangelo room” of the Uffizi is part of the rearrangement of the museum's collection that has<br />
been defining Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt’s grander vision for the Florentine museum.<br />
Next month, the museum’s Leonardo three paintings will be installed in a<br />
nearby room. Together, these artists capture “a magic moment in the<br />
first decade of the 16th century when Florence was the cultural and<br />
artistic center of the world,” Mr. Schmidt said. Room 41 hosts, among other paintings, the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi painted by Raphael round 1504-1505, and the “Holy Family”, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple a year later, known as the<br />
Doni Tondo.
    CIPG_20180603_NYT-Uffizi_M3_5932.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 3 JUNE 2018: A technician looks at the portrait of Maddalena Strozzi, painted by Raphael, in room 41at the Uffizi, in Florence, Italy, on June 3rd 2018.<br />
<br />
As of Monday June 4th 2018, Room 41 or the “Raphael and Michelangelo room” of the Uffizi is part of the rearrangement of the museum's collection that has<br />
been defining Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt’s grander vision for the Florentine museum.<br />
Next month, the museum’s Leonardo three paintings will be installed in a<br />
nearby room. Together, these artists capture “a magic moment in the<br />
first decade of the 16th century when Florence was the cultural and<br />
artistic center of the world,” Mr. Schmidt said. Room 41 hosts, among other paintings, the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi painted by Raphael round 1504-1505, and the “Holy Family”, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple a year later, known as the<br />
Doni Tondo.
    CIPG_20180603_NYT-Uffizi_M3_5839.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_4485.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 3 JUNE 2018: Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt is interviewed here in room 41, dedicated to Raphael and Michelangelo, at the Uffizi, in Florence, Italy, on June 3rd 2018.<br />
<br />
As of Monday June 4th 2018, Room 41 or the “Raphael and Michelangelo room” of the Uffizi is part of the rearrangement of the museum's collection that has<br />
been defining Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt’s grander vision for the Florentine museum.<br />
Next month, the museum’s Leonardo three paintings will be installed in a<br />
nearby room. Together, these artists capture “a magic moment in the<br />
first decade of the 16th century when Florence was the cultural and<br />
artistic center of the world,” Mr. Schmidt said. Room 41 hosts, among other paintings, the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi painted by Raphael round 1504-1505, and the “Holy Family”, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple a year later, known as the<br />
Doni Tondo.
    CIPG_20180603_NYT-Uffizi_M3_6085.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 3 JUNE 2018: Uffizi curator Francesca De Luca photographs a frame containging Raphael's portrait of Agnolo Tondi, here at its new location  in room 41at the Uffizi, in Florence, Italy, on June 3rd 2018.<br />
<br />
As of Monday June 4th 2018, Room 41 or the “Raphael and Michelangelo room” of the Uffizi is part of the rearrangement of the museum's collection that has<br />
been defining Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt’s grander vision for the Florentine museum.<br />
Next month, the museum’s Leonardo three paintings will be installed in a<br />
nearby room. Together, these artists capture “a magic moment in the<br />
first decade of the 16th century when Florence was the cultural and<br />
artistic center of the world,” Mr. Schmidt said. Room 41 hosts, among other paintings, the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi painted by Raphael round 1504-1505, and the “Holy Family”, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple a year later, known as the<br />
Doni Tondo.
    CIPG_20180603_NYT-Uffizi_M3_5793.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 3 JUNE 2018:  The dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi, painted by Raphael round 1504-1505, are seen here in the Hall of Saturn of Palazzo Pitti before the paintings will be relocated in room 41 of the Uffizi, in Florence, Italy, on June 3rd 2018.<br />
<br />
As of Monday June 4th 2018, Room 41 or the “Raphael and Michelangelo room” of the Uffizi is part of the rearrangement of the museum's collection that has<br />
been defining Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt’s grander vision for the Florentine museum.<br />
Next month, the museum’s Leonardo three paintings will be installed in a<br />
nearby room. Together, these artists capture “a magic moment in the<br />
first decade of the 16th century when Florence was the cultural and<br />
artistic center of the world,” Mr. Schmidt said. Room 41 hosts, among other paintings, the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi painted by Raphael round 1504-1505, and the “Holy Family”, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple a year later, known as the<br />
Doni Tondo.
    CIPG_20180603_NYT-Uffizi_M3_4869.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_4440.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 3 JUNE 2018: A visitor is seen here in room 41, dedicated to Raphael and Michelangelo, here at the Uffizi, in Florence, Italy, on June 3rd 2018.<br />
<br />
As of Monday June 4th 2018, Room 41 or the “Raphael and Michelangelo room” of the Uffizi is part of the rearrangement of the museum's collection that has<br />
been defining Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt’s grander vision for the Florentine museum.<br />
Next month, the museum’s Leonardo three paintings will be installed in a<br />
nearby room. Together, these artists capture “a magic moment in the<br />
first decade of the 16th century when Florence was the cultural and<br />
artistic center of the world,” Mr. Schmidt said. Room 41 hosts, among other paintings, the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi painted by Raphael round 1504-1505, and the “Holy Family”, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple a year later, known as the<br />
Doni Tondo.
    CIPG_20180603_NYT-Uffizi_M3_6074.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 3 JUNE 2018: Museum technicians transport two Raphael paintings, "Portrait of a Young Man with an Apple" and "Portrait of Pope Julius II" to Palazzo Pitti from the Uffizi gallery, in Florence, Italy, on June 3rd 2018. The Vasari corridor is used to move paintings between the Uffizi gallery and Palazzo Pitti.<br />
<br />
As of Monday June 4th 2018, Room 41 or the “Raphael and Michelangelo room” of the Uffizi is part of the rearrangement of the museum's collection that has<br />
been defining Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt’s grander vision for the Florentine museum.<br />
Next month, the museum’s Leonardo three paintings will be installed in a<br />
nearby room. Together, these artists capture “a magic moment in the<br />
first decade of the 16th century when Florence was the cultural and<br />
artistic center of the world,” Mr. Schmidt said. Room 41 hosts, among other paintings, the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi painted by Raphael round 1504-1505, and the “Holy Family”, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple a year later, known as the<br />
Doni Tondo.
    CIPG_20180603_NYT-Uffizi_M3_5253.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 3 JUNE 2018: Signs of a removed painting are seen at the Uffizi, in Florence, Italy, on June 3rd 2018.<br />
<br />
As of Monday June 4th 2018, Room 41 or the “Raphael and Michelangelo room” of the Uffizi is part of the rearrangement of the museum's collection that has<br />
been defining Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt’s grander vision for the Florentine museum.<br />
Next month, the museum’s Leonardo three paintings will be installed in a<br />
nearby room. Together, these artists capture “a magic moment in the<br />
first decade of the 16th century when Florence was the cultural and<br />
artistic center of the world,” Mr. Schmidt said. Room 41 hosts, among other paintings, the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi painted by Raphael round 1504-1505, and the “Holy Family”, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple a year later, known as the<br />
Doni Tondo.
    CIPG_20180603_NYT-Uffizi_M3_5034.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 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 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 Tribuna of the Uffizi, an octagonal room in the Uffizi gallery displaying the most important antiquities and High Renaissance and Bolognese paintings from the Medici collection, is seen here 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_20160628_NYT-Uffizi_5M3_4223.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 3 JUNE 2018: Museum technicians transport two Raphael paintings, "Portrait of a Young Man with an Apple" and "Portrait of Pope Julius II"   through the  Vasari corridor, an<br />
800-meter long passageway which links Palazzo Pitti to the Uffizi gallery, here to Palazzo Pitti, in Florence, Italy, on June 3rd 2018. The Vasari corridor is used to move paintings between the Uffizi gallery and Palazzo Pitti.<br />
<br />
As of Monday June 4th 2018, Room 41 or the “Raphael and Michelangelo room” of the Uffizi is part of the rearrangement of the museum's collection that has<br />
been defining Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt’s grander vision for the Florentine museum.<br />
Next month, the museum’s Leonardo three paintings will be installed in a<br />
nearby room. Together, these artists capture “a magic moment in the<br />
first decade of the 16th century when Florence was the cultural and<br />
artistic center of the world,” Mr. Schmidt said. Room 41 hosts, among other paintings, the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi painted by Raphael round 1504-1505, and the “Holy Family”, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple a year later, known as the<br />
Doni Tondo.
    CIPG_20180603_NYT-Uffizi_M3_5237.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 3 JUNE 2018: The “Holy Family”, also known as the Doni Tondo, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple around 1503-1504, is seen here in room 35 of the Uffizi before being relocated to room 41 of the Uffizi, in Florence, Italy, on June 3rd 2018.<br />
<br />
As of Monday June 4th 2018, Room 41 or the “Raphael and Michelangelo room” of the Uffizi is part of the rearrangement of the museum's collection that has<br />
been defining Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt’s grander vision for the Florentine museum.<br />
Next month, the museum’s Leonardo three paintings will be installed in a<br />
nearby room. Together, these artists capture “a magic moment in the<br />
first decade of the 16th century when Florence was the cultural and<br />
artistic center of the world,” Mr. Schmidt said. Room 41 hosts, among other paintings, the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi painted by Raphael round 1504-1505, and the “Holy Family”, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple a year later, known as the<br />
Doni Tondo.
    CIPG_20180603_NYT-Uffizi_M3_4972.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 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_9550.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: 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 />
<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_4734.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_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 />
<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_4483.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 3 JUNE 2018: A view of room 41, dedicated to Raphael and Michelangelo, is seen here at the Uffizi, in Florence, Italy, on June 3rd 2018.<br />
<br />
As of Monday June 4th 2018, Room 41 or the “Raphael and Michelangelo room” of the Uffizi is part of the rearrangement of the museum's collection that has<br />
been defining Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt’s grander vision for the Florentine museum.<br />
Next month, the museum’s Leonardo three paintings will be installed in a<br />
nearby room. Together, these artists capture “a magic moment in the<br />
first decade of the 16th century when Florence was the cultural and<br />
artistic center of the world,” Mr. Schmidt said. Room 41 hosts, among other paintings, the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi painted by Raphael round 1504-1505, and the “Holy Family”, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple a year later, known as the<br />
Doni Tondo.
    CIPG_20180603_NYT-Uffizi_M3_6098.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 3 JUNE 2018: Visitors look at the “Holy Family”, also known as the Doni Tondo, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple around 1503-1504,  here in its new location in room 41at the Uffizi, in Florence, Italy, on June 3rd 2018.<br />
<br />
As of Monday June 4th 2018, Room 41 or the “Raphael and Michelangelo room” of the Uffizi is part of the rearrangement of the museum's collection that has<br />
been defining Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt’s grander vision for the Florentine museum.<br />
Next month, the museum’s Leonardo three paintings will be installed in a<br />
nearby room. Together, these artists capture “a magic moment in the<br />
first decade of the 16th century when Florence was the cultural and<br />
artistic center of the world,” Mr. Schmidt said. Room 41 hosts, among other paintings, the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi painted by Raphael round 1504-1505, and the “Holy Family”, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple a year later, known as the<br />
Doni Tondo.
    CIPG_20180603_NYT-Uffizi_M3_5922.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 3 JUNE 2018: Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt poses for a portrait at the Uffizi, in Florence, Italy, on June 3rd 2018.<br />
<br />
As of Monday June 4th 2018, Room 41 or the “Raphael and Michelangelo room” of the Uffizi is part of the rearrangement of the museum's collection that has<br />
been defining Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt’s grander vision for the Florentine museum.<br />
Next month, the museum’s Leonardo three paintings will be installed in a<br />
nearby room. Together, these artists capture “a magic moment in the<br />
first decade of the 16th century when Florence was the cultural and<br />
artistic center of the world,” Mr. Schmidt said. Room 41 hosts, among other paintings, the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi painted by Raphael round 1504-1505, and the “Holy Family”, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple a year later, known as the<br />
Doni Tondo.
    CIPG_20180603_NYT-Uffizi_M3_5854.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 3 JUNE 2018: Technicians are seen here at work as they position the “Holy Family”, also known as the Doni Tondo, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple around 1503-1504, to its nice at his new location in room 41at the Uffizi, in Florence, Italy, on June 3rd 2018.<br />
<br />
As of Monday June 4th 2018, Room 41 or the “Raphael and Michelangelo room” of the Uffizi is part of the rearrangement of the museum's collection that has<br />
been defining Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt’s grander vision for the Florentine museum.<br />
Next month, the museum’s Leonardo three paintings will be installed in a<br />
nearby room. Together, these artists capture “a magic moment in the<br />
first decade of the 16th century when Florence was the cultural and<br />
artistic center of the world,” Mr. Schmidt said. Room 41 hosts, among other paintings, the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi painted by Raphael round 1504-1505, and the “Holy Family”, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple a year later, known as the<br />
Doni Tondo.
    CIPG_20180603_NYT-Uffizi_M3_5771.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 3 JUNE 2018: Technicians are seen here at work as they position the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi, painted by Raphael, in room 41at the Uffizi, in Florence, Italy, on June 3rd 2018.<br />
<br />
As of Monday June 4th 2018, Room 41 or the “Raphael and Michelangelo room” of the Uffizi is part of the rearrangement of the museum's collection that has<br />
been defining Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt’s grander vision for the Florentine museum.<br />
Next month, the museum’s Leonardo three paintings will be installed in a<br />
nearby room. Together, these artists capture “a magic moment in the<br />
first decade of the 16th century when Florence was the cultural and<br />
artistic center of the world,” Mr. Schmidt said. Room 41 hosts, among other paintings, the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi painted by Raphael round 1504-1505, and the “Holy Family”, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple a year later, known as the<br />
Doni Tondo.
    CIPG_20180603_NYT-Uffizi_M3_5683.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 3 JUNE 2018: Museum technicians transport two Raphael paintings through the  Vasari corridor, an<br />
800-meter long passageway which links Palazzo Pitti to the Uffizi gallery, here to Palazzo Pitti, in Florence, Italy, on June 3rd 2018. The Vasari corridor is used to move paintings between the Uffizi gallery and Palazzo Pitti.<br />
<br />
As of Monday June 4th 2018, Room 41 or the “Raphael and Michelangelo room” of the Uffizi is part of the rearrangement of the museum's collection that has<br />
been defining Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt’s grander vision for the Florentine museum.<br />
Next month, the museum’s Leonardo three paintings will be installed in a<br />
nearby room. Together, these artists capture “a magic moment in the<br />
first decade of the 16th century when Florence was the cultural and<br />
artistic center of the world,” Mr. Schmidt said. Room 41 hosts, among other paintings, the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi painted by Raphael round 1504-1505, and the “Holy Family”, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple a year later, known as the<br />
Doni Tondo.
    CIPG_20180603_NYT-Uffizi_M3_5207.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 3 JUNE 2018: Maurizio Catolfi, a museum<br />
official with oversight for security, peeks through the keyhole  of the  Vasari corridor, an<br />
800-meter long passageway which links Palazzo Pitti to the Uffizi gallery, as he waits for the museum technicians transporting two Raphael paintings here to Palazzo Pitti, in Florence, Italy, on June 3rd 2018. The Vasari corridor is used to move paintings between the Uffizi gallery and Palazzo Pitti.<br />
<br />
As of Monday June 4th 2018, Room 41 or the “Raphael and Michelangelo room” of the Uffizi is part of the rearrangement of the museum's collection that has<br />
been defining Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt’s grander vision for the Florentine museum.<br />
Next month, the museum’s Leonardo three paintings will be installed in a<br />
nearby room. Together, these artists capture “a magic moment in the<br />
first decade of the 16th century when Florence was the cultural and<br />
artistic center of the world,” Mr. Schmidt said. Room 41 hosts, among other paintings, the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi painted by Raphael round 1504-1505, and the “Holy Family”, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple a year later, known as the<br />
Doni Tondo.
    CIPG_20180603_NYT-Uffizi_M3_5198.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 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_5099.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_5030.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_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 />
<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_4458.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 29 JUNE 2016: A view of the Uffizi Courtyard 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_20160628_NYT-Uffizi_5M3_4365.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 3 JUNE 2018: The “Holy Family”, also known as the Doni Tondo, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple around 1503-1504, is seen here in its new location in room 41at the Uffizi, in Florence, Italy, on June 3rd 2018.<br />
<br />
As of Monday June 4th 2018, Room 41 or the “Raphael and Michelangelo room” of the Uffizi is part of the rearrangement of the museum's collection that has<br />
been defining Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt’s grander vision for the Florentine museum.<br />
Next month, the museum’s Leonardo three paintings will be installed in a<br />
nearby room. Together, these artists capture “a magic moment in the<br />
first decade of the 16th century when Florence was the cultural and<br />
artistic center of the world,” Mr. Schmidt said. Room 41 hosts, among other paintings, the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi painted by Raphael round 1504-1505, and the “Holy Family”, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple a year later, known as the<br />
Doni Tondo.
    CIPG_20180603_NYT-Uffizi_M3_6111.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 3 JUNE 2018: A visitor looks at the earlier Raphael portraits of Elisabetta Gonzaga and Guidobaldo<br />
da Montefeltro here in their new location in room 41at the Uffizi, in Florence, Italy, on June 3rd 2018.<br />
<br />
As of Monday June 4th 2018, Room 41 or the “Raphael and Michelangelo room” of the Uffizi is part of the rearrangement of the museum's collection that has<br />
been defining Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt’s grander vision for the Florentine museum.<br />
Next month, the museum’s Leonardo three paintings will be installed in a<br />
nearby room. Together, these artists capture “a magic moment in the<br />
first decade of the 16th century when Florence was the cultural and<br />
artistic center of the world,” Mr. Schmidt said. Room 41 hosts, among other paintings, the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi painted by Raphael round 1504-1505, and the “Holy Family”, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple a year later, known as the<br />
Doni Tondo.
    CIPG_20180603_NYT-Uffizi_M3_5942.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 3 JUNE 2018: A visitor looks at the “Holy Family”, also known as the Doni Tondo, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple around 1503-1504,  here in its new location in room 41at the Uffizi, in Florence, Italy, on June 3rd 2018.<br />
<br />
As of Monday June 4th 2018, Room 41 or the “Raphael and Michelangelo room” of the Uffizi is part of the rearrangement of the museum's collection that has<br />
been defining Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt’s grander vision for the Florentine museum.<br />
Next month, the museum’s Leonardo three paintings will be installed in a<br />
nearby room. Together, these artists capture “a magic moment in the<br />
first decade of the 16th century when Florence was the cultural and<br />
artistic center of the world,” Mr. Schmidt said. Room 41 hosts, among other paintings, the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi painted by Raphael round 1504-1505, and the “Holy Family”, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple a year later, known as the<br />
Doni Tondo.
    CIPG_20180603_NYT-Uffizi_M3_5910.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 3 JUNE 2018: The “Holy Family”, also known as the Doni Tondo, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple around 1503-1504, is seen here in its new location in room 41at the Uffizi, in Florence, Italy, on June 3rd 2018.<br />
<br />
As of Monday June 4th 2018, Room 41 or the “Raphael and Michelangelo room” of the Uffizi is part of the rearrangement of the museum's collection that has<br />
been defining Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt’s grander vision for the Florentine museum.<br />
Next month, the museum’s Leonardo three paintings will be installed in a<br />
nearby room. Together, these artists capture “a magic moment in the<br />
first decade of the 16th century when Florence was the cultural and<br />
artistic center of the world,” Mr. Schmidt said. Room 41 hosts, among other paintings, the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi painted by Raphael round 1504-1505, and the “Holy Family”, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple a year later, known as the<br />
Doni Tondo.
    CIPG_20180603_NYT-Uffizi_M3_5873.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 3 JUNE 2018: Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt is seen here during an aperitivo on the terrace of the Uffizi, in Florence, Italy, on June 3rd 2018.<br />
<br />
As of Monday June 4th 2018, Room 41 or the “Raphael and Michelangelo room” of the Uffizi is part of the rearrangement of the museum's collection that has<br />
been defining Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt’s grander vision for the Florentine museum.<br />
Next month, the museum’s Leonardo three paintings will be installed in a<br />
nearby room. Together, these artists capture “a magic moment in the<br />
first decade of the 16th century when Florence was the cultural and<br />
artistic center of the world,” Mr. Schmidt said. Room 41 hosts, among other paintings, the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi painted by Raphael round 1504-1505, and the “Holy Family”, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple a year later, known as the<br />
Doni Tondo.
    CIPG_20180603_NYT-Uffizi_M3_5580.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 3 JUNE 2018: Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt is seen here at Palazzo Pitti before overseeing the transportation of dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi, painted by Raphael, to their new location at room 41 of the Uffizi, in Florence, Italy, on June 3rd 2018.<br />
<br />
As of Monday June 4th 2018, Room 41 or the “Raphael and Michelangelo room” of the Uffizi is part of the rearrangement of the museum's collection that has<br />
been defining Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt’s grander vision for the Florentine museum.<br />
Next month, the museum’s Leonardo three paintings will be installed in a<br />
nearby room. Together, these artists capture “a magic moment in the<br />
first decade of the 16th century when Florence was the cultural and<br />
artistic center of the world,” Mr. Schmidt said. Room 41 hosts, among other paintings, the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi painted by Raphael round 1504-1505, and the “Holy Family”, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple a year later, known as the<br />
Doni Tondo.
    CIPG_20180603_NYT-Uffizi_M3_5283.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 3 JUNE 2018: "Self-Portrait" (1504-1506 ca) by Raphael is seen here at the Uffizi before being relocated at Palazzo Pitti, in Florence, Italy, on June 3rd 2018.<br />
<br />
As of Monday June 4th 2018, Room 41 or the “Raphael and Michelangelo room” of the Uffizi is part of the rearrangement of the museum's collection that has<br />
been defining Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt’s grander vision for the Florentine museum.<br />
Next month, the museum’s Leonardo three paintings will be installed in a<br />
nearby room. Together, these artists capture “a magic moment in the<br />
first decade of the 16th century when Florence was the cultural and<br />
artistic center of the world,” Mr. Schmidt said. Room 41 hosts, among other paintings, the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi painted by Raphael round 1504-1505, and the “Holy Family”, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple a year later, known as the<br />
Doni Tondo.
    CIPG_20180603_NYT-Uffizi_M3_5054.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 3 JUNE 2018: Visitors are seen here by the “Holy Family”, also known as the Doni Tondo, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple around 1503-1504,  here in room 35 of the Uffizi before being relocated to room 41, in Florence, Italy, on June 3rd 2018.<br />
<br />
As of Monday June 4th 2018, Room 41 or the “Raphael and Michelangelo room” of the Uffizi is part of the rearrangement of the museum's collection that has<br />
been defining Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt’s grander vision for the Florentine museum.<br />
Next month, the museum’s Leonardo three paintings will be installed in a<br />
nearby room. Together, these artists capture “a magic moment in the<br />
first decade of the 16th century when Florence was the cultural and<br />
artistic center of the world,” Mr. Schmidt said. Room 41 hosts, among other paintings, the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi painted by Raphael round 1504-1505, and the “Holy Family”, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple a year later, known as the<br />
Doni Tondo.
    CIPG_20180603_NYT-Uffizi_M3_4979.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 3 JUNE 2018: The “Holy Family”, also known as the Doni Tondo, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple around 1503-1504, is seen here in room 35 of the Uffizi before being relocated to room 41 of the Uffizi, in Florence, Italy, on June 3rd 2018.<br />
<br />
As of Monday June 4th 2018, Room 41 or the “Raphael and Michelangelo room” of the Uffizi is part of the rearrangement of the museum's collection that has<br />
been defining Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt’s grander vision for the Florentine museum.<br />
Next month, the museum’s Leonardo three paintings will be installed in a<br />
nearby room. Together, these artists capture “a magic moment in the<br />
first decade of the 16th century when Florence was the cultural and<br />
artistic center of the world,” Mr. Schmidt said. Room 41 hosts, among other paintings, the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi painted by Raphael round 1504-1505, and the “Holy Family”, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple a year later, known as the<br />
Doni Tondo.
    CIPG_20180603_NYT-Uffizi_M3_4961.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 3 JUNE 2018: The “Holy Family”, also known as the Doni Tondo, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple around 1503-1504, is seen here in room 35 of the Uffizi before being relocated to room 41 of the Uffizi, in Florence, Italy, on June 3rd 2018.<br />
<br />
As of Monday June 4th 2018, Room 41 or the “Raphael and Michelangelo room” of the Uffizi is part of the rearrangement of the museum's collection that has<br />
been defining Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt’s grander vision for the Florentine museum.<br />
Next month, the museum’s Leonardo three paintings will be installed in a<br />
nearby room. Together, these artists capture “a magic moment in the<br />
first decade of the 16th century when Florence was the cultural and<br />
artistic center of the world,” Mr. Schmidt said. Room 41 hosts, among other paintings, the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi painted by Raphael round 1504-1505, and the “Holy Family”, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple a year later, known as the<br />
Doni Tondo.
    CIPG_20180603_NYT-Uffizi_M3_4888.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 29 JUNE 2016: Visitors with pre-purchased tickets wait in line to enter the 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_20160629_NYT-Uffizi_5M3_4708.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_4492.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 29 JUNE 2016: An itinerant happening takes place at the Uffizi Gallery during the weekly evening opening, 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_20160628_NYT-Uffizi_5M3_4301.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 29 JUNE 2016: Visitors photograph and look at the "Birth of Venus" (1484) by Sandro Botticelli, in the Botticelli room 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_20160628_NYT-Uffizi_5M3_4290.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 3 JUNE 2018: Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt poses for a portrait at the Uffizi, in Florence, Italy, on June 3rd 2018.<br />
<br />
As of Monday June 4th 2018, Room 41 or the “Raphael and Michelangelo room” of the Uffizi is part of the rearrangement of the museum's collection that has<br />
been defining Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt’s grander vision for the Florentine museum.<br />
Next month, the museum’s Leonardo three paintings will be installed in a<br />
nearby room. Together, these artists capture “a magic moment in the<br />
first decade of the 16th century when Florence was the cultural and<br />
artistic center of the world,” Mr. Schmidt said. Room 41 hosts, among other paintings, the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi painted by Raphael round 1504-1505, and the “Holy Family”, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple a year later, known as the<br />
Doni Tondo.
    CIPG_20180603_NYT-Uffizi_M3_5850.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 3 JUNE 2018: Museum technicians move the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi, painted by Raphael, from Palazzo Pitti to their new location at room 41 of the Uffizi, in Florence, Italy, on June 3rd 2018.<br />
<br />
As of Monday June 4th 2018, Room 41 or the “Raphael and Michelangelo room” of the Uffizi is part of the rearrangement of the museum's collection that has<br />
been defining Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt’s grander vision for the Florentine museum.<br />
Next month, the museum’s Leonardo three paintings will be installed in a<br />
nearby room. Together, these artists capture “a magic moment in the<br />
first decade of the 16th century when Florence was the cultural and<br />
artistic center of the world,” Mr. Schmidt said. Room 41 hosts, among other paintings, the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi painted by Raphael round 1504-1505, and the “Holy Family”, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple a year later, known as the<br />
Doni Tondo.
    CIPG_20180603_NYT-Uffizi_M3_5532.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 3 JUNE 2018: (R-L) Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt is seen here with museum technicians  in the Hall of Saturn at Palazzo Pitti before moving the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi, painted by Raphael, to their new location at room 41 of the Uffizi, in Florence, Italy, on June 3rd 2018.<br />
<br />
As of Monday June 4th 2018, Room 41 or the “Raphael and Michelangelo room” of the Uffizi is part of the rearrangement of the museum's collection that has<br />
been defining Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt’s grander vision for the Florentine museum.<br />
Next month, the museum’s Leonardo three paintings will be installed in a<br />
nearby room. Together, these artists capture “a magic moment in the<br />
first decade of the 16th century when Florence was the cultural and<br />
artistic center of the world,” Mr. Schmidt said. Room 41 hosts, among other paintings, the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi painted by Raphael round 1504-1505, and the “Holy Family”, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple a year later, known as the<br />
Doni Tondo.
    CIPG_20180603_NYT-Uffizi_M3_5498.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 3 JUNE 2018: Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt points out the mythological scene by Master of Serumido, an artist in<br />
Raphael’s workshop, in the rear of Raphael's portrait of Maddalena Strozzi, here in the Hall of Saturn at Palazzo Pitti before moving the paintings to their new location at room 41 of the Uffizi, in Florence, Italy, on June 3rd 2018.<br />
<br />
As of Monday June 4th 2018, Room 41 or the “Raphael and Michelangelo room” of the Uffizi is part of the rearrangement of the museum's collection that has<br />
been defining Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt’s grander vision for the Florentine museum.<br />
Next month, the museum’s Leonardo three paintings will be installed in a<br />
nearby room. Together, these artists capture “a magic moment in the<br />
first decade of the 16th century when Florence was the cultural and<br />
artistic center of the world,” Mr. Schmidt said. Room 41 hosts, among other paintings, the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi painted by Raphael round 1504-1505, and the “Holy Family”, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple a year later, known as the<br />
Doni Tondo.
    CIPG_20180603_NYT-Uffizi_M3_5428.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 3 JUNE 2018: Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt poses for a portrait in the Hall of Saturn at Palazzo Pitti before overseeing the transportation of dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi, painted by Raphael, to their new location at room 41 of the Uffizi, in Florence, Italy, on June 3rd 2018.<br />
<br />
As of Monday June 4th 2018, Room 41 or the “Raphael and Michelangelo room” of the Uffizi is part of the rearrangement of the museum's collection that has<br />
been defining Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt’s grander vision for the Florentine museum.<br />
Next month, the museum’s Leonardo three paintings will be installed in a<br />
nearby room. Together, these artists capture “a magic moment in the<br />
first decade of the 16th century when Florence was the cultural and<br />
artistic center of the world,” Mr. Schmidt said. Room 41 hosts, among other paintings, the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi painted by Raphael round 1504-1505, and the “Holy Family”, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple a year later, known as the<br />
Doni Tondo.
    CIPG_20180603_NYT-Uffizi_M3_5325.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 3 JUNE 2018: Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt is seen here at Palazzo Pitti before overseeing the transportation of dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi, painted by Raphael, to their new location at room 41 of the Uffizi, in Florence, Italy, on June 3rd 2018.<br />
<br />
As of Monday June 4th 2018, Room 41 or the “Raphael and Michelangelo room” of the Uffizi is part of the rearrangement of the museum's collection that has<br />
been defining Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt’s grander vision for the Florentine museum.<br />
Next month, the museum’s Leonardo three paintings will be installed in a<br />
nearby room. Together, these artists capture “a magic moment in the<br />
first decade of the 16th century when Florence was the cultural and<br />
artistic center of the world,” Mr. Schmidt said. Room 41 hosts, among other paintings, the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi painted by Raphael round 1504-1505, and the “Holy Family”, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple a year later, known as the<br />
Doni Tondo.
    CIPG_20180603_NYT-Uffizi_M3_5285.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 3 JUNE 2018: Maurizio Catolfi, a museum<br />
official with oversight for security, opens the door to the  Vasari corridor, an<br />
800-meter long passageway which links Palazzo Pitti to the Uffizi gallery, for the museum technicians transporting two Raphael paintings here to Palazzo Pitti, in Florence, Italy, on June 3rd 2018. The Vasari corridor is used to move paintings between the Uffizi gallery and Palazzo Pitti.<br />
<br />
As of Monday June 4th 2018, Room 41 or the “Raphael and Michelangelo room” of the Uffizi is part of the rearrangement of the museum's collection that has<br />
been defining Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt’s grander vision for the Florentine museum.<br />
Next month, the museum’s Leonardo three paintings will be installed in a<br />
nearby room. Together, these artists capture “a magic moment in the<br />
first decade of the 16th century when Florence was the cultural and<br />
artistic center of the world,” Mr. Schmidt said. Room 41 hosts, among other paintings, the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi painted by Raphael round 1504-1505, and the “Holy Family”, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple a year later, known as the<br />
Doni Tondo.
    CIPG_20180603_NYT-Uffizi_M3_5234.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 3 JUNE 2018: Maurizio Catolfi, a museum<br />
official with oversight for security, opens the door of the  Vasari corridor, an<br />
800-meter long passageway which links Palazzo Pitti to the Uffizi gallery, here at Palazzo Pitti, in Florence, Italy, on June 3rd 2018. The Vasari corridor is used to move paintings between the Uffizi gallery and Palazzo Pitti.<br />
<br />
As of Monday June 4th 2018, Room 41 or the “Raphael and Michelangelo room” of the Uffizi is part of the rearrangement of the museum's collection that has<br />
been defining Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt’s grander vision for the Florentine museum.<br />
Next month, the museum’s Leonardo three paintings will be installed in a<br />
nearby room. Together, these artists capture “a magic moment in the<br />
first decade of the 16th century when Florence was the cultural and<br />
artistic center of the world,” Mr. Schmidt said. Room 41 hosts, among other paintings, the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi painted by Raphael round 1504-1505, and the “Holy Family”, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple a year later, known as the<br />
Doni Tondo.
    CIPG_20180603_NYT-Uffizi_M3_5192.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 3 JUNE 2018: "Portrait of a Young Man with an Apple" (1504-1505 ca) by Raphael is seen here at the Uffizi before being relocated at Palazzo Pitti, in Florence, Italy, on June 3rd 2018.<br />
<br />
As of Monday June 4th 2018, Room 41 or the “Raphael and Michelangelo room” of the Uffizi is part of the rearrangement of the museum's collection that has<br />
been defining Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt’s grander vision for the Florentine museum.<br />
Next month, the museum’s Leonardo three paintings will be installed in a<br />
nearby room. Together, these artists capture “a magic moment in the<br />
first decade of the 16th century when Florence was the cultural and<br />
artistic center of the world,” Mr. Schmidt said. Room 41 hosts, among other paintings, the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi painted by Raphael round 1504-1505, and the “Holy Family”, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple a year later, known as the<br />
Doni Tondo.
    CIPG_20180603_NYT-Uffizi_M3_5049.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.
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  • 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 />
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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_20160725_NYT-Uffizi_5M3_9614.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 />
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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_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 />
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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_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 />
<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_9447.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 />
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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_4673.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 />
<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_4413.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 29 JUNE 2016: Children run on the terrace of the Uffizi Gallery overlooking the Palazzo Vecchio (right) the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore, 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_4311.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 4 JUNE 2018: A view of the Uffizi gallery in Florence, Italy, on June 4th 2018.<br />
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As of Monday June 4th 2018, Room 41 or the “Raphael and Michelangelo room” of the Uffizi is part of the rearrangement of the museum's collection that has<br />
been defining Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt’s grander vision for the Florentine museum.<br />
Next month, the museum’s Leonardo three paintings will be installed in a<br />
nearby room. Together, these artists capture “a magic moment in the<br />
first decade of the 16th century when Florence was the cultural and<br />
artistic center of the world,” Mr. Schmidt said. Room 41 hosts, among other paintings, the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi painted by Raphael round 1504-1505, and the “Holy Family”, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple a year later, known as the<br />
Doni Tondo.
    CIPG_20180604_NYT-Uffizi_M3_6156.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 4 JUNE 2018: A janitor wipes the floow of room 41, dedicated to Raphael and Michelangelo, before the inauguration at the Uffizi, in Florence, Italy, on June 4th 2018.<br />
<br />
As of Monday June 4th 2018, Room 41 or the “Raphael and Michelangelo room” of the Uffizi is part of the rearrangement of the museum's collection that has<br />
been defining Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt’s grander vision for the Florentine museum.<br />
Next month, the museum’s Leonardo three paintings will be installed in a<br />
nearby room. Together, these artists capture “a magic moment in the<br />
first decade of the 16th century when Florence was the cultural and<br />
artistic center of the world,” Mr. Schmidt said. Room 41 hosts, among other paintings, the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi painted by Raphael round 1504-1505, and the “Holy Family”, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple a year later, known as the<br />
Doni Tondo.
    CIPG_20180604_NYT-Uffizi_M3_6152.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 3 JUNE 2018: Signs left by the “Holy Family”, also known as the Doni Tondo, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple around 1503-1504, here in room 35 of the Uffizi before being relocated to room 41, in Florence, Italy, on June 3rd 2018.<br />
<br />
As of Monday June 4th 2018, Room 41 or the “Raphael and Michelangelo room” of the Uffizi is part of the rearrangement of the museum's collection that has<br />
been defining Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt’s grander vision for the Florentine museum.<br />
Next month, the museum’s Leonardo three paintings will be installed in a<br />
nearby room. Together, these artists capture “a magic moment in the<br />
first decade of the 16th century when Florence was the cultural and<br />
artistic center of the world,” Mr. Schmidt said. Room 41 hosts, among other paintings, the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi painted by Raphael round 1504-1505, and the “Holy Family”, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple a year later, known as the<br />
Doni Tondo.
    CIPG_20180604_NYT-Uffizi_M3_6135.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 3 JUNE 2018: Signs left by the “Holy Family”, also known as the Doni Tondo, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple around 1503-1504, here in room 35 of the Uffizi before being relocated to room 41, in Florence, Italy, on June 3rd 2018.<br />
<br />
As of Monday June 4th 2018, Room 41 or the “Raphael and Michelangelo room” of the Uffizi is part of the rearrangement of the museum's collection that has<br />
been defining Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt’s grander vision for the Florentine museum.<br />
Next month, the museum’s Leonardo three paintings will be installed in a<br />
nearby room. Together, these artists capture “a magic moment in the<br />
first decade of the 16th century when Florence was the cultural and<br />
artistic center of the world,” Mr. Schmidt said. Room 41 hosts, among other paintings, the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi painted by Raphael round 1504-1505, and the “Holy Family”, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple a year later, known as the<br />
Doni Tondo.
    CIPG_20180604_NYT-Uffizi_M3_6129.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 4 JUNE 2018: A view of the Arno river and Ponte Vecchio from the Uffizi gallery in Florence, Italy, on June 4th 2018.<br />
<br />
As of Monday June 4th 2018, Room 41 or the “Raphael and Michelangelo room” of the Uffizi is part of the rearrangement of the museum's collection that has<br />
been defining Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt’s grander vision for the Florentine museum.<br />
Next month, the museum’s Leonardo three paintings will be installed in a<br />
nearby room. Together, these artists capture “a magic moment in the<br />
first decade of the 16th century when Florence was the cultural and<br />
artistic center of the world,” Mr. Schmidt said. Room 41 hosts, among other paintings, the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi painted by Raphael round 1504-1505, and the “Holy Family”, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple a year later, known as the<br />
Doni Tondo.
    CIPG_20180604_NYT-Uffizi_M3_6126.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 3 JUNE 2018: A view of room 41, dedicated to Raphael and Michelangelo, is seen here at the Uffizi, in Florence, Italy, on June 3rd 2018.<br />
<br />
As of Monday June 4th 2018, Room 41 or the “Raphael and Michelangelo room” of the Uffizi is part of the rearrangement of the museum's collection that has<br />
been defining Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt’s grander vision for the Florentine museum.<br />
Next month, the museum’s Leonardo three paintings will be installed in a<br />
nearby room. Together, these artists capture “a magic moment in the<br />
first decade of the 16th century when Florence was the cultural and<br />
artistic center of the world,” Mr. Schmidt said. Room 41 hosts, among other paintings, the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi painted by Raphael round 1504-1505, and the “Holy Family”, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple a year later, known as the<br />
Doni Tondo.
    CIPG_20180603_NYT-Uffizi_M3_6116.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 3 JUNE 2018: A view of room 41, dedicated to Raphael and Michelangelo, is seen here at the Uffizi, in Florence, Italy, on June 3rd 2018.<br />
<br />
As of Monday June 4th 2018, Room 41 or the “Raphael and Michelangelo room” of the Uffizi is part of the rearrangement of the museum's collection that has<br />
been defining Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt’s grander vision for the Florentine museum.<br />
Next month, the museum’s Leonardo three paintings will be installed in a<br />
nearby room. Together, these artists capture “a magic moment in the<br />
first decade of the 16th century when Florence was the cultural and<br />
artistic center of the world,” Mr. Schmidt said. Room 41 hosts, among other paintings, the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi painted by Raphael round 1504-1505, and the “Holy Family”, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple a year later, known as the<br />
Doni Tondo.
    CIPG_20180603_NYT-Uffizi_M3_6095.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 3 JUNE 2018: A visitor looks at the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi, painted by Raphael, here at their new location in room 41at the Uffizi, in Florence, Italy, on June 3rd 2018.<br />
<br />
As of Monday June 4th 2018, Room 41 or the “Raphael and Michelangelo room” of the Uffizi is part of the rearrangement of the museum's collection that has<br />
been defining Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt’s grander vision for the Florentine museum.<br />
Next month, the museum’s Leonardo three paintings will be installed in a<br />
nearby room. Together, these artists capture “a magic moment in the<br />
first decade of the 16th century when Florence was the cultural and<br />
artistic center of the world,” Mr. Schmidt said. Room 41 hosts, among other paintings, the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi painted by Raphael round 1504-1505, and the “Holy Family”, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple a year later, known as the<br />
Doni Tondo.
    CIPG_20180603_NYT-Uffizi_M3_6067.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 3 JUNE 2018: The plaque of room 41 dedicated to Raphael and Michelangelo is seen here at the entrance of room 41 at the Uffizi, in Florence, Italy, on June 3rd 2018.<br />
<br />
As of Monday June 4th 2018, Room 41 or the “Raphael and Michelangelo room” of the Uffizi is part of the rearrangement of the museum's collection that has<br />
been defining Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt’s grander vision for the Florentine museum.<br />
Next month, the museum’s Leonardo three paintings will be installed in a<br />
nearby room. Together, these artists capture “a magic moment in the<br />
first decade of the 16th century when Florence was the cultural and<br />
artistic center of the world,” Mr. Schmidt said. Room 41 hosts, among other paintings, the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi painted by Raphael round 1504-1505, and the “Holy Family”, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple a year later, known as the<br />
Doni Tondo.
    CIPG_20180603_NYT-Uffizi_M3_6065.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 3 JUNE 2018: Technicians are seen here at work as they position the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi, painted by Raphael, in room 41at the Uffizi, in Florence, Italy, on June 3rd 2018.<br />
<br />
As of Monday June 4th 2018, Room 41 or the “Raphael and Michelangelo room” of the Uffizi is part of the rearrangement of the museum's collection that has<br />
been defining Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt’s grander vision for the Florentine museum.<br />
Next month, the museum’s Leonardo three paintings will be installed in a<br />
nearby room. Together, these artists capture “a magic moment in the<br />
first decade of the 16th century when Florence was the cultural and<br />
artistic center of the world,” Mr. Schmidt said. Room 41 hosts, among other paintings, the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi painted by Raphael round 1504-1505, and the “Holy Family”, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple a year later, known as the<br />
Doni Tondo.
    CIPG_20180603_NYT-Uffizi_M3_6008.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 3 JUNE 2018: A visitor looks at the rears of the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi, painted by Raphael, here at their new location in room 41at the Uffizi, in Florence, Italy, on June 3rd 2018.<br />
<br />
As of Monday June 4th 2018, Room 41 or the “Raphael and Michelangelo room” of the Uffizi is part of the rearrangement of the museum's collection that has<br />
been defining Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt’s grander vision for the Florentine museum.<br />
Next month, the museum’s Leonardo three paintings will be installed in a<br />
nearby room. Together, these artists capture “a magic moment in the<br />
first decade of the 16th century when Florence was the cultural and<br />
artistic center of the world,” Mr. Schmidt said. Room 41 hosts, among other paintings, the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi painted by Raphael round 1504-1505, and the “Holy Family”, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple a year later, known as the<br />
Doni Tondo.
    CIPG_20180603_NYT-Uffizi_M3_5947.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 3 JUNE 2018: A visitor is seen here by the earlier Raphael portraits of Elisabetta Gonzaga and Guidobaldo<br />
da Montefeltro here in their new location in room 41at the Uffizi, in Florence, Italy, on June 3rd 2018.<br />
<br />
As of Monday June 4th 2018, Room 41 or the “Raphael and Michelangelo room” of the Uffizi is part of the rearrangement of the museum's collection that has<br />
been defining Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt’s grander vision for the Florentine museum.<br />
Next month, the museum’s Leonardo three paintings will be installed in a<br />
nearby room. Together, these artists capture “a magic moment in the<br />
first decade of the 16th century when Florence was the cultural and<br />
artistic center of the world,” Mr. Schmidt said. Room 41 hosts, among other paintings, the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi painted by Raphael round 1504-1505, and the “Holy Family”, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple a year later, known as the<br />
Doni Tondo.
    CIPG_20180603_NYT-Uffizi_M3_5945.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 3 JUNE 2018: Technicians are seen here at work as they position the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi, painted by Raphael, in room 41at the Uffizi, in Florence, Italy, on June 3rd 2018.<br />
<br />
As of Monday June 4th 2018, Room 41 or the “Raphael and Michelangelo room” of the Uffizi is part of the rearrangement of the museum's collection that has<br />
been defining Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt’s grander vision for the Florentine museum.<br />
Next month, the museum’s Leonardo three paintings will be installed in a<br />
nearby room. Together, these artists capture “a magic moment in the<br />
first decade of the 16th century when Florence was the cultural and<br />
artistic center of the world,” Mr. Schmidt said. Room 41 hosts, among other paintings, the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi painted by Raphael round 1504-1505, and the “Holy Family”, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple a year later, known as the<br />
Doni Tondo.
    CIPG_20180603_NYT-Uffizi_M3_5650.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 3 JUNE 2018: The iron keys to the access door of the Vasari corridor, an<br />
800-meter long passageway which links Palazzo Pitti to the Uffizi gallery, are seen here at Palazzo Pitti, in Florence, Italy, on June 3rd 2018. The Vasari corridor is used to move paintings between the Uffizi gallery and Palazzo Pitti.<br />
<br />
As of Monday June 4th 2018, Room 41 or the “Raphael and Michelangelo room” of the Uffizi is part of the rearrangement of the museum's collection that has<br />
been defining Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt’s grander vision for the Florentine museum.<br />
Next month, the museum’s Leonardo three paintings will be installed in a<br />
nearby room. Together, these artists capture “a magic moment in the<br />
first decade of the 16th century when Florence was the cultural and<br />
artistic center of the world,” Mr. Schmidt said. Room 41 hosts, among other paintings, the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi painted by Raphael round 1504-1505, and the “Holy Family”, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple a year later, known as the<br />
Doni Tondo.
    CIPG_20180603_NYT-Uffizi_M3_5182.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 3 JUNE 2018: "Medusa" (1597) by Caravaggio is seen here in its new room inaugurated in February 2018 at the Uffizi, in Florence, Italy, on June 3rd 2018.<br />
<br />
As of Monday June 4th 2018, Room 41 or the “Raphael and Michelangelo room” of the Uffizi is part of the rearrangement of the museum's collection that has<br />
been defining Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt’s grander vision for the Florentine museum.<br />
Next month, the museum’s Leonardo three paintings will be installed in a<br />
nearby room. Together, these artists capture “a magic moment in the<br />
first decade of the 16th century when Florence was the cultural and<br />
artistic center of the world,” Mr. Schmidt said. Room 41 hosts, among other paintings, the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi painted by Raphael round 1504-1505, and the “Holy Family”, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple a year later, known as the<br />
Doni Tondo.
    CIPG_20180603_NYT-Uffizi_M3_5127.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 3 JUNE 2018: A window overlooking the Arno river and Florence is seen here at the Uffizi, in Florence, Italy, on June 3rd 2018.<br />
<br />
As of Monday June 4th 2018, Room 41 or the “Raphael and Michelangelo room” of the Uffizi is part of the rearrangement of the museum's collection that has<br />
been defining Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt’s grander vision for the Florentine museum.<br />
Next month, the museum’s Leonardo three paintings will be installed in a<br />
nearby room. Together, these artists capture “a magic moment in the<br />
first decade of the 16th century when Florence was the cultural and<br />
artistic center of the world,” Mr. Schmidt said. Room 41 hosts, among other paintings, the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi painted by Raphael round 1504-1505, and the “Holy Family”, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple a year later, known as the<br />
Doni Tondo.
    CIPG_20180603_NYT-Uffizi_M3_5101.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 3 JUNE 2018: Visitors photograph the “Holy Family”, also known as the Doni Tondo, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple around 1503-1504,  here in room 35 of the Uffizi before being relocated to room 41, in Florence, Italy, on June 3rd 2018.<br />
<br />
As of Monday June 4th 2018, Room 41 or the “Raphael and Michelangelo room” of the Uffizi is part of the rearrangement of the museum's collection that has<br />
been defining Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt’s grander vision for the Florentine museum.<br />
Next month, the museum’s Leonardo three paintings will be installed in a<br />
nearby room. Together, these artists capture “a magic moment in the<br />
first decade of the 16th century when Florence was the cultural and<br />
artistic center of the world,” Mr. Schmidt said. Room 41 hosts, among other paintings, the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife Maddalena Strozzi painted by Raphael round 1504-1505, and the “Holy Family”, that Michelangelo painted for the Doni couple a year later, known as the<br />
Doni Tondo.
    CIPG_20180603_NYT-Uffizi_M3_4907.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 />
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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_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 />
<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_9461.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 />
<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_5379.jpg
  • FLORENCE, ITALY - 29 JUNE 2016: Visitors photograph and look at the "Birth of Venus" (1484) by Sandro Botticelli, in the Botticelli room 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_20160629_NYT-Uffizi_5M3_5335.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 />
<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_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 />
<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_5228.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_4792.jpg
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