Uffizi, new online lectures kick off. Schmidt: "We will deal with original and hot topics."

The Uffizi Art and Culture Dialogues are restarting: from January 13 to May 26, 2021, every Wednesday at 5 p.m. on the Uffizi Galleries’ Facebook channel, lectures in which art, from Egyptian to contemporary, will be narrated will be live streamed. Twenty appointments curated by Fabrizio Paolucci (head of classical art and coordinator of the Uffizi’s scientific initiatives) during which weekly aspects of art and culture will be addressed from new and unprecedented points of view, divided into five sections: Behind the Scenes, Treasures from the Depots, Masterpieces on Paper, Universal Workshop and The Uffizi and the Territory.

The lectures will range from the collections of the Florentine museum headquarters and the heritage of Tuscany to universal themes, such as the psychology of artists, museology, and artistic currents. Numerous specialists and scholars will speak, including the director of the Egyptian Museum of Turin Cristian Greco, Professor Alexander Heinemann of the University of Tübingen, Florence Superintendent Andrea Pessina and Mantua Superintendent Gabriele Barucca, the director of the Royal Palace of Naples Mario Epifani, the director of the psychiatric clinic at theUniversity of Pisa, Liliana Dell’Osso; Professor Lorenzo Gnocchi of the University of Florence; and Professor Fabrizio Lollini of the University of Bologna.
Opening the new series of online meetings will be Marco Riccomini with a lecture on the theme of the journey in the Uffizi paintings.

“We have asked luminaries in art history and from different disciplines,” said Uffizi Galleries Director Eike Schmidt, "to present original, even hot topics that fascinate and cause discussion. Millennia of art and culture will be addressed, and live streaming is an effective and dynamic way to bring these topics to an increasingly global audience, because it spans the entire planet. If visitors can no longer come to the Uffizi, then it is our job to connect with them."

Questions can be asked of the speakers during the live streaming lectures.

Below is the full program.

Jan. 13
Universal workshop
Journey in a Room. Itineraries in the paintings of the Uffizi
Marco Riccomini

January 20
Universal Workshop
When Florence Challenges Modernity. From Brunelleschi’s Old Sacristy to Michelucci’s Highway Church: from rejection to consent
Claudia Conforti

January 27
Behind the scenes.
The Artemio Franchi stadium, Pier Luigi Nervi’s Florentine masterpiece
Andrea Pessina

Feb. 3
Universal Laboratory
Genius and Madness. The psychological autopsy of Edvard Munch
Liliana Dell’Osso

Feb. 10
The Uffizi and the territory
The Ambrogiana villa under Cosimo III: a Spanish model for the Medici
Francesca Funis

February 17
Masterpieces on Paper
Painting and miniature in Bologna before Raphael
Fabrizio Lollini

February 24
Masterpieces on paper
Drawing or “painting”? Drawings of the Neapolitan school in the Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe degli Uffizi
Mario Epifani

March 3
Behind the Scenes.
Words of the Gods. Written material culture at the Egyptian Museum
Cristian Greco

March 10
Behind the Scenes.
Franco Ionda and his world in images
Chiara Toti

March 17
Behind the Scenes.
Digital cataloging of cultural heritage
Antonella Negri

March 24 (On the occasion of Dantedì)
Lectura Dantis
For Dante and for Florence. Literary and artistic programs between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries
Paolo Procaccioli

March 31
Treasures from the storerooms
Seventeenth-century German glass in the Pitti Palace
Silvia Ciappi

April 7
Universal workshop
The Flagellation and the Dream of Constantine by Piero della Francesca between perspective and cosmography
Claudio Strinati and Sandra Marraghini

April 14
The Uffizi and the Territory
Humanism between Careggi and Poggio a Caiano
Lorenzo Gnocchi

April 21 (on the occasion of Rome’s birthday)
Universal workshop
Political content, private language. The relief with scene of sacrifice in the Uffizi and related monuments in imperial Rome
Alexander Heinemann

April 28
The Uffizi and the territory
Discoveries at the Ambrogiana
Alessandra Griffo

May 5 (on the occasion of Peter Leopold of Habsburg-Lorraine’s birthday and the 200th anniversary of Napoleon Bonaparte’s death)
Behind the scenes
Table settings between the Habsburg-Lorraine and the Bonapartes in Tuscany
Rita Balleri

May 12
Behind the Scenes.
The Cardinal’s Legacy. An Inventory of Ippolito de’ Medici
Beatrice Paolozzi Strozzi

May 19
The Uffizi and the territory
The Florentine galleries and the birth of the civic museum of Pescia: a new political and cultural model for Tuscan municipalities
Elvira Altiero, Emanuele Pellegrini and Claudia Massi

May 26
Masterpieces on paper
Drawings of sacred and secular goldsmithing by “Monsù Luigi Valadier silversmith in San Luigi de’ Francesi” and other eighteenth-century Italian makers
Gabriele Barucca

Uffizi, new online lectures kick off. Schmidt: "We will deal with original and hot topics."

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