Arts - 5 Febbraio After Celebrating Food in Famous Paintings, the Uffizi Galleries Turned to Married Love The Uffizi’s celebration started on January 29, when the Museums posted “The Doni Spouses,” narrated by the retired head art historian at the Uffizi, Marzia Faietti, on Facebook. As for Massari’s three-part sweet, “crema di bianca mangiare”, it’s a work of art in itself. Only an expert pastry chef like Massari could possibly skillfully combine the long list of ingredients and make it look like art as well…
Arts - 1 Febbraio Dining and Drinking with the Artists at the Uffizi Galleries, but Only Virtually “With these short videos, each lasting approximately five minutes, we aim to create an even stronger bond with our public thanks to these artworks by including them in a contemporary and vital context”, says Director Eike Schmidt… Fabio Picchi, owner of Cibrèo, Dario Cecchini, butcher and restaurateur of “Antica Macelleria Cecchini,” and pastry chef, Debora Massari teach you how to prepare the delicacies…
Arts - 4 Giugno 2020 State vs. Church: Uffizi Director Provokes Controversy Over Who Owns Sacred Art? “I believe the time has come,” Schmidt said, “for state museums to perform an act of courage and return paintings to the churches for which they were originally created… " . However, this decision is neither popular nor logistically simple for many reasons. For some experts, it's unimaginable.
Arts - 20 Maggio 2020 The Uffizi’s Latest Purchase: A Rare Panoramic Print of Renaissance Florence At the end of April, about a week after his press conference with Stampa Estera on Facebook, Eike Schmidt, Director of the Uffizi Galleries, announced the purchase of a very rare print: a panoramic view of Renaissance Florence dating to 1601. “The Uffizi”,” he explained, “had recently bought it from an antiquarian map dealer in […]
Arts - 27 Aprile 2020 Gli Uffizi Galleries in Florence: How We’re Coping with the Covid-19 Pandemic A virtual tour can never replace a real-life one. “It’s the same for sports events or movies,” Schmidt explained. “Watching a game on TV is not the same emotionally as going to the stadium.....” Schmidt doesn’t expect a deluge of foreign visitors during 2020. He speculates that the visitors will be Florentines and Italian nationals. Hopefully, the foreign visitors will be able to return in 2021 and it’s at that time that Schmidt thinks there will be a huge increase in visitors, just as there was after the 1966 flood (an increase of more than 1.5 million visitors) and the 1993 bomb.
Arte e Design - 15 Dicembre 2018 Antonello da Messina a Palermo: interviste a Sgarbi, Orlando, Schmidt e Villa Vasari lo raccontava nelle sue celeberrime Vite come colui che aveva ricevuto il segreto della pittura a olio, l’alchimia meravigliosa di Giovanni di Bruggia, un Jan van Eyck ammaliato dalla grazia del giovane siciliano, che quella tecnica di misture e infinite stesure di colore traslucido aveva appreso, e dal Nord portato nel Mediterraneo
Politica - 19 Agosto 2015 Italia ‘colonizzata’: dopo la cessione degli asset economico-strategici tocca ai musei Prima la vendita dei “gioielli di famiglia” (le aziende migliori) iniziata durante il governo Monti. Poi la scalata da parte di investitori cinesi (che hanno già fatto capire che è loro intenzione assumerne il controllo) ad alcune imprese italiane del settore energetico. Ora è arrivato il momento di cedere agli ‘stranieri’ il controllo dei beni culturali italiani. Cominciando dai musei