A census of the more than 180,000 works in the Uffizi Drawings and Prints Cabinet begins in June

Starting in June, for about two years, a team of ten technicians and specialists will carry out a general census to check the state of conservation and acquire new information on the more than 180,000 works housed in the Uffizi Drawings and Prints Cabinet. A delicate and complex operation that had not been carried out since 1973.

“It is an operation that has become necessary in view of the great increase in the collection that has occurred in recent decades in 1973, in fact they were about 133,000, today they are more than 45 thousand more. So the time has come to take stock of the situation,” said the coordinator of the Prints and Drawings Cabinet, Laura Donati.

In order to allow for the census, the hours for accessing the services will be reduced: from June 1, the Prints and Drawings Cabinet will be open on Wednesdays and Fridays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. and on Thursdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and it will always be necessary to make an appointment to visit beforehand.

The graphic art collection housed in the Prints and Drawings Cabinet of the Uffizi in Florence is among the oldest, most substantial and valuable in the world, along with those of the British Museum, the Louvre, and the Albertina in Vienna. It contains folios dated from the 1300s to contemporary times, tracing the history of the graphic arts ranging from figure and landscape drawings to architectural plans, from burin engravings to woodcuts. Among the artists represented are some of the greatest names in art and architecture: in addition to Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo, there are works by Mantegna, Botticelli, Bernini, Rembrandt, Balla, Morandi, and other great masters of the 20th century.

Source: release

A census of the more than 180,000 works in the Uffizi Drawings and Prints Cabinet begins in June

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