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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…

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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…

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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.

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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

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