Russell Crowe is in Florence and visited the Uffizi.

A visit to the Uffizi today for Russell Crowe: the famous New Zealand actor, who won an Oscar in 2001 as the lead actor in Ridley Scott’s very famous film The Gladiator, spent a morning in the Gallery in the company of some friends.

The interpreter of Maximus Decimus Meridius, who in the film is a Roman general later turned gladiator who challenges Emperor Commodus, was accompanied during the visit by museum director Eike D. Schmidt, and he was especially attracted by the ancient Roman treasures in the special archaeological exhibition All the Emperor’s Men: in particular, he appreciated the sculpture of thesleeping Ariadne, the cinerary urn of the freedman Aelius Proculus (recently purchased by the Uffizi) and the marble Niobe on the Run, under which he took a selfie together with Schmidt.

Then the visit continued to the new 16th-century rooms, where Crowe especially enjoyed Titian’s Venus of Urbino, Bronzino’sEleonora of Toledo, and Andrea Commodi’s Fall of the Rebel Angels, taking photos of the works and posting some of them on his social accounts. The actor did not deny himself to the many visitors who, recognizing him, asked him for photos and autographs, and at the end of the tour, which lasted about three hours, he also treated himself to a coffee on the museum terrace overlooking Piazza Signoria.

Russell Crowe is in Florence and visited the Uffizi.

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