![]() ![]() Thanks to the juxtaposition of paintings from Florence and the rest of Italy with pictures from northern Europe, we have recovered the international spirit informing the taste of the period, which was open to influences from every country." The idea is to create an intellectual experience both for the non-specialist and for the expert. Uffizi Galleries' Director Eike Schmidt stated: "The new layout is based on a thematic and artistic approach designed to inspire and to stimulate the visitor's curiosity, carrying him or her back into the atmosphere of the time and into the history of the Medici's collections. Not a flaming, over-the-top red but a red that is often found in the fabrics and decor depicted in the paintings of those years, developed on the basis of a textile sample of the period and manufactured with natural pigments already in use in the 17th century: a real yet almost “filtered” red, as one might say. The age’s passionateness determined the colour choice of red for the panels in the rooms along the corridor (in order to avoid intervening directly on Vasari's original colour scheme) and for the walls of the inner rooms (from 96 to 99). The lion's share obviously goes to Caravaggio, the unquestioned pivot of painting in a century characterised by strong passions, symbolism and often extreme innovation. The names of the eight rooms are evocative: Between Reality and Magic Caravaggio and Artemisia Caravaggio: Medusa Caravaggio: Bacchus By Candlelight Rembrandt and Rubens Galileo and the Medici and Florentine Epic. ![]() The eight rooms on the first floor of the eastern wing of the Uffizi opened with a new layout devoted to Caravaggio and the painting of the 17th century on February 19, 2018.
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