Raphael Rome exhibition, here are the new dates: reopens June 2 and closes Aug. 30

New dates have been announced for the Raphael exhibition in Rome(here is our brief review). The major exhibition on the Urbino painter reopens June 2 (which was initially the closing date) and will run until August 30, 2020, thanks to the willingness and solidarity of the museums involved. In order to ensure the protection of the health of visitors and employees, on the occasion of the reopening the Scuderie del Quirinale will apply extraordinary security measures, outlined in a specific technical-health project drawn up by an expert from the Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases of Sapienza University and harmonized with the guidelines of the Technical Scientific Committee.

“We are starting over,” said Mario De Simoni, President and CEO of Ales - Scuderie del Quirinale. “We reopen the doors of the Scuderie del Quirinale ready to welcome visitors under the most scrupulous security conditions, while at the same time offering the opportunity to enjoy so much beauty and find in it the strength to restart. We are grateful to the Uffizi Galleries, its director Eike Schmidt and all the lenders who generously granted the opportunity to extend the dates of such an important exhibition for our country.”

“The ’Raphael’ exhibition is invaluable from an artistic point of view and offers the opportunity to admire a concentration of works by the Urbino master in the same context as never before,” explains Uffizi director Eike Schmidt. “Every effort to ensure that as many people as possible can enjoy such a marvel is a must: the Galleries are therefore delighted to extend their loan of some 50 masterpieces to this unique and epoch-making exhibition for as long as necessary.”

Image: Raphael, Portrait of a Woman in the Clothes of Venus (“Fornarina”), detail (c. 1519-1520; oil on panel; Rome, National Galleries of Ancient Art, Barberini). National Galleries of Ancient Art, Rome (MIBACT) - Hertziana Library, Max Planck Institute for Art History/Enrico Fontolan

Raphael Rome exhibition, here are the new dates: reopens June 2 and closes Aug. 30

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