A series of meetings to tell the Uffizi behind the scenes

Starting Wednesday, October 2, 2019, at 5 p. m., the Wednesday afternoon events at the Uffizi Galleries will start again, held as usual in theVasari Auditorium. This fall, the theme chosen will be Behind the Scenes at the Uffizi, told in its various aspects by specialists and operators, professors and experts. The Behind the Scen es series joins two other thematic categories of appointments already tried and tested: Universal Workshop and Masterpieces on Paper.

“In this series of fall meetings we wanted to emphasize themes and topics related to the internal activity of the museum from the reasons that lead to the birth of an exhibition, to the analysis of the policies and choices of conservation and protection, to the illustration of the sometimes unexpectedly difficult process of a restoration work. ”The decision to open these ’windows’ into the secret life of the museum responds to a specific desire of our public, which is increasingly eager to understand the workings of a complex, yet living body that is deeply open to the public, as the Uffizi Galleries are," said Uffizi Galleries Director Eike Schmidt.

Following is the full program:

Oct. 2 - Cecilia Frosinini, Earthquake and bradyseism: the impact of moving for exhibitions on works of art;

“Masterpieces on Paper”: Oct. 9 - Donatella Fratini, Ideal Galleries, Poetic Galleries and Princely Galleries in the Florence of Cosimo II;

Oct. 16 - Graziella Cirri, Lucia and Andrea Dori, Odoardo Borrani, At the Academy Gallery. History and Restoration;

“Universal Workshop”: Oct. 23 - Silvia Malaguzzi, Food for the eyes, the edible in the paintings of the Uffizi;

Oct. 30 - Talk byICCD (Central Institute for Catalogue and Documentation), Trajan’s Column. A Photographic Atlas. From the 1988 photographic campaign to its publication;

Nov. 6 - Ester Tronconi, San Pier Scheraggio. Sources, texts, material traces of a medieval church in the Uffizi;

“Universal Laboratory”: Nov. 13 - Luciano Canfora, War and Slavery in Euripides;

Nov. 20 - Paolo Procaccioli, ’Compari’, ’triumviri’, ’sister’ arts. The artistic familia of Pietro Aretino (meeting organized on the occasion of the exhibition dedicated by the Uffizi Galleries to the great man of letters);

Nov. 27 - Angelo Tartuferi, Muriel Vervat, Roberto Buda, Andrea Orcagna, The Pentecost Triptych. History and Restoration;

“Universal Workshop”: Dec. 4 - Marco Masseti, Before and After “Contact”. The zoomorphic iconography of the Italian Renaissance at the time of the discovery of America;

Dec. 11 - Maximillian Hernandez, Andrea del Castagno’s Casa Pazzi fresco: the suspended context and twentieth-century collecting;

Dec. 18 - Anna Bisceglia, The Vagueness of Seeing. Pietro Aretino between word and visual arts (meeting organized on the occasion of the exhibition dedicated by the Uffizi Galleries to the great man of letters).

A series of meetings to tell the Uffizi behind the scenes

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