(20 Dec 2024)
ITALY HISTORIC CORRIDOR
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Florence, Italy – 19 December 2024
1. Various of the Vasari Corridor passing over Ponte Vecchio
2. Various of the Corridor filmed from Ponte Vecchio
3. Various of people walking under the Corridor
4. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Simone Verde, Director of the Uffizi Gallery:
“This reopening is extremely important for us because for the first time in history the corridor will be accessible to all Uffizi visitors. It’s a reopening that allows us to connect the two fundamental poles of the (art) collections from one side of the Arno River to the other, the Uffizi Palace with the Pitti Palace and Boboli Gardens, and to make it accessible to all visitors.”
5. Wide of the Corridor
6. Various of the view of the Arno from a window in the Corridor
7. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Simone Verde, Director of the Uffizi Gallery:
“Following the philosophy we have chosen from the beginning of this adventure, the corridor allows us to turn overtourism from a problem into an opportunity, a way for visitors to see the connection between these two poles of the Medici and then Lorena collections, this sort of city within the city that is represented by the Uffizi galleries as a whole, and to move from one pole to the other, distributing themselves, disrupting the more anthropised, more crowded areas, while discovering the other souls of these collections."
8. Various of people walking on Ponte Vecchio
9. Various of people posing for a photo on Ponte Vecchio
10. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Simona Pasquinucci, head of the Uffizi Gallery’s team of art historians
“The Vasarian corridor had a defensive function. We must imagine that Cosimo’s seizure of power at just seventeen years of age was not an easy one. Essentially there was a military re-entry into the city by this young man, son of a mercenary captain Giovanni dalle Bande Nere and a Florentine noblewoman Maria Salviati. There were many enemies who, through a system of revenge and physical elimination, could threaten his personal safety or who could oppose the establishment of a lordship, of a totalitarian regime over Florence. Cosimo therefore certainly did not have the freedom to move easily in the streets without danger and a corridor such as this certainly allowed him to go safely from the Palazzo Vecchio to the Palazzo Pitti, which once purchased and restored became his private residence. A safe home-office route.”
11. Pan left of the Corridor
12. Wide of the windows looking into the Church of San Felicita from the Corridor
13. Top shot of the Church of San Felicita filmed from the Corridor window
14. Wide shot of a staircase in the Corridor
15. Various of Titian’s painting ‘Venus of Urbino’ inside the Uffizi Museum filmed through a Corridor window
16. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Simona Pasquinucci, head of the Uffizi Gallery’s team of art historians
17. Various of the goldsmiths‘ and jewellers’ workshops on Ponte Vecchio
18. Wide people walking on Ponte Vecchio
19. SOUNDBITE (Italian) Simone Verde, Director of the Uffizi Gallery:
“The return of the Vasarian corridor to its empty state allows us, in the months in which it remains empty, to restore the atmosphere of these passages to their original dimension, as they were conceived and emulated around Europe. We are working on an exhibition design that we will unveil in due course.”
20. Mid of the exit of the Corridoio in the Boboli Gardens
21. Wide of the Boboli Garden
22. Wide of the Pitti Palace
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