Raphael’s Madonna del Baldacchino Returns to Uffizi Galleries Following Loan and Technical Analysis
Uffizi Galleries has returned Raphael's Madonna del Baldacchino to the Saturn Room of the Palatine Gallery at Pitti Palace in Florence, where the work has hung since the gallery opened to the public in 1828. The painting had been lent to an exhibition at the Duomo of Pescia in Tuscany and was installed in the family chapel of Baldassarre Turini, who purchased the unfinished canvas in Florence before Raphael departed for Rome. Before and after the loan, the panel received technical surveys and diagnostic analyses at the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence.
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The Saturn Room now displays eight Raphael works, including the portraits of Francesco Maria della Rovere, Fedra Inghirami and Cardinal Bibbiena, the Vision of Ezekiel, the Madonna of the Grand Duke and the Madonna della Seggiola. The reinstallation underscores the Uffizi Galleries' strategy of maintaining dense, historically contextual groupings of Renaissance holdings that attract scholars and collectors focused on Raphael's Florentine and Roman periods.
- Artists: Raphael
- People: Baldassarre Turini
- Museums: Uffizi Galleries, Pitti Palace, Palatine Gallery
- Locations: Florence, Pescia
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