New Caravaggio rooms at the Uffizi open tomorrow

On the morning of tomorrow, Monday, Feb. 19, the new rooms dedicated to Caravaggio and the seventeenth century will be presented by the director of the Uffizi Galleries himself, Eike Schmidt.

They will be eight rooms in which visitors will be able to admire not only the masterpieces of Caravaggio, but also works by great artists of the seventeenth century, such as Cecco Bravo, Artemisia Gentileschi, Otto Marseus, Gherardo delle Notti, Velazquez, Rembrandt, Van Dyck and Rubens.

The crimson color “obtained with artisanal colors, starting with cinnabar and then adding shades using original fabric shades from the 1600s as a model,” was chosen for the layout of these rooms.

“In honor of Anna Maria Luisa de’ Medici, who tied the Medici collections forever to the city of Florence, 275 years after her death,” Schmidt explains, “I wanted to invite not only the authorities, but also all Florentines and outsiders in the city, to participate on Monday, February 19, 2018, starting at 11:30 a.m., in the inauguration of the new rooms of the Uffizi dedicated to Caravaggio and seventeenth-century painting, so that we can admire these masterpieces together.”

Image: Caravaggio, Shield with the Head of Medusa (1597; oil on canvas; Florence, Uffizi)

New Caravaggio rooms at the Uffizi open tomorrow

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