Forgotten Paintings at the Uffizi?
A short item (Tableaux "oubliés" aux Offices [Forgotten paintings in the Uffizi], January 26) from France Télévisions Infos tipped me off to a special exhibit at the Galleria degli Uffizi in Florence. I mai visti: Inventario di affetti, sponsored by the Amici degli Uffizi (Friends of the Uffizi), is a show of 25 paintings normally held in the museum's storage spaces and rarely shown; it will be on display until February 28 in the Sala delle Reali Poste, a separate space on the museum's ground floor that was once a royal post office. It is, I understand, the third such exhibit of "never before seen" paintings at the Uffizi (here is an article on last year's exhibit). Information so far is pretty scarce, but here is a partial list of the works that are on display:
Titian, Portrait of Sixtus IV (recently restored and attributed to Titian)
Canaletto, View of the Doge's Palace, Venice
Lorenzo Larciani, Allegory of Fortune
Beccafumi (Domenico di Giovanni di Pace), Holy Family with St. John
Giovanni Paolo Pannini, Pool of Betsaida
Gherardo delle Notti, Adoration of the Shepherds (damaged in 1993 bombing)
Federico Barocci, Madonna della Gatta
Giorgio Morandi, Self-Portrait (1921)
Henry Moore, Reclining Figure (drawing)
Giacomo Balla, Portraits of Luce and Elica, his daughters
Michelangelo Pistoletto, Self-portrait with collector
Mimmo Paladino, Saladino Paladino (Self-Portrait)
Igor Mitoraj, Double Self-Portrait
Understandably, given the nature of the show, images of these works are difficult to locate. One Italian blogger who saw the show (Alias Libera/Mente on January 6) remarked, "Molto interessante e soprattutto...con pochissima gente. Da vedere" (Very interesting and, above all, with very few people. Worth seeing).
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