At last you can visit the Uffizi without leaving home
Discover Arts is a season of cinema events giving access to some of the world’s most captivating galleries. The season, exclusive to cinemas, begins 14 December with Florence and the Uffizi Gallery, which will feature the first unveiling of the newly restored Adoration of the Magi by Leonardo Da Vinci.
The spectator will be taken on a tour of Florence and its beautiful works of art and architecture, en route to the pulsating core of the film, the Uffizi Gallery.
The narrative follows a trail of over 10 museums and 150 artworks amongst the most well known in the world. It is an artistic foray into the city taking in everything from the Brancacci Chapel to the Bargello National Museum, from Palazzo Medici, to the narrow city streets and Brunelleschi’s Dome, from Palazzo Vecchio to the Uffizi Gallery and the Accademia Gallery, without neglecting picture postcard places such as the Ponte Vecchio and Piazza della Signoria.
It begins with a work of art that symbolizes the transition between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (the Brancacci Chapel with its frescoes by Masolino and Masaccio) and the young artists who contributed to that great revolution (Donatello and Brunelleschi) and were also stimulated by the patronage of the Medici Family. The journey continues into the city’s iconic buildings and palaces: The Bargello Museum, Santa Maria del Fiore, Palazzo Vecchio and Piazza della Signoria, the Uffizi Gallery and the Accademia Gallery, with in-depth features dedicated to Leonardo and Botticelli, to Michelangelo’s masterpiece, the David, and to the more obscure works of art housed in the Uffizi.
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