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Religious Art Belongs In Churches, Not Museums, Says Director Of Italy’s Most Famous Museum

VISUAL Posted: June 4, 2020 11:01 am

“Eike Schmidt, the director of the Uffizi gallery in Florence, told the press [last week] that he thought many religious works of art currently in Italy’s museums and stores should be returned to the churches from which they came. … This idea is part of the Uffizi’s reaction to the coronavirus crisis, in which it is thinking about diversification and the distribution of its works of art in order to create a ‘wider’ [diffuso] museum beyond the immediate premises of the gallery.” – The Art Newspaper

VISUAL Published: 06.03.20

Read the story in The Art Newspaper Published: 06.03.20

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