The Uffizi celebrates its 250th anniversary of opening to the public with a stamp

To celebrate the 250th anniversary of its opening to the public, the Uffizi Galleries issued a stamp: the latter depicts the Vasarian loggia with ample presence of human figures, commemorating that June 24, 1769, date when Grand Duke Pietro Leopoldo allowed with new rulesaccess to the citizens of Florence to let them admire the masterpieces of the Gallery free of charge.

Giuseppe Pelli Bencivenni, Director of the Imperial and Royal Gallery of Statues and Paintings from 1775 to 1793, said, “In the education of young people should enter a display of statues, paintings and other rarities that are deposited at the R. Gallery and the eye would be accustomed to find the beautiful and the rich would be tempted to a noble luxury that would be worth more than magnificence in liveries, horses and so many other frivolities,” convinced that it was fundamental to the art conserved at the Uffizi to educate the young.

The ordinary stamp belongs to the thematic series Le eccellenze del sapere, is printed by theIstituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato S.p.A., in intaglio, on white, neutral coated, self-adhesive paper in four hundred thousand copies. Sketcher and engraver is Maria Carmela Perrini.
Completing the stamp: “250th anniversary opening to the public Uffizi Galleries - Florence” the inscription “Italy” and the tariff indication B.

“I am very pleased to be able to recall Leopold’s reformism and still share that modern idea of a museum. A place of excellence, of study, of education, of welcoming citizens from all parts of the world who are surely enriched by the sight of so many masterpieces,” said the director of the Uffizi Galleries, Eike Schmidt.

The Uffizi celebrates its 250th anniversary of opening to the public with a stamp

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