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From kitchen wall to the Louvre: Cimabue show sheds new light on ‘father of Western painting’
A long-lost Cimabue panel discovered on a kitchen wall north of Paris in 2019 is at the heart of a landmark exhibition on the ...
Artnet1mon
A Secret Corridor Once Used by the Medicis Opens to the Public
Named the Vasari Corridor after Giorgio Vasari architect ... to its original 16th-century appearance (i.e. without the 1,000 paintings that had lined it in the 20th-century).
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Uffizi’s secret Vasari Corridor reopens over Florence’s Ponte Vecchio
The 1km-elevated passageway was built by the architect Giorgio Vasari for Cosimo ... Around a quarter of the paintings in the Vasari Corridor were damaged, with Gerard van Honthorst’s Adoration ...
Smithsonian Magazine17d
See the Sprawling Secret Passageway Built for Florence’s Elite 450 Years Ago
The corridor is named for its designer, Giorgio Vasari, a Renaissance artist, architect and writer. Vasari modeled the passage on a similar structure in Rome. Entrants descend 58 steps from the ...
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Renaissance Man: The Last Judgement of Giorgio Vasari
Tom Conti stars as Medici court artist Giorgio Vasari in a story of pride, love and legacy combined with an epic journey through the art of the Renaissance. Written by Eileen Horne.
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Florence's Secret 16th-Century Passageway Opens To Public After 450 Years
The passage was commissioned by Cosimo I de' Medici, the Duke of Florence, and designed by the renowned Renaissance painter and architect Giorgio Vasari ... 1,000 pieces of art from the 18th ...