Uffizi Galleries Reinstalls Roman Portrait Busts in Vasari Corridor as Part of Archaeological Initiative
The Uffizi Galleries has reinstalled fifty ancient Greco-Roman busts in the Ponte Vecchio section of the Vasari Corridor. The portraits depict figures including Cicero, emperors Augustus and Antoninus Pius, and empresses Faustina and Sabina. The sculptures, regarded as masterpieces of Roman portraiture, were removed from the museum's second-floor corridors in 1993 and placed in storage. They were selected in the eighteenth century by deputy director Luigi Lanzi and form part of the Medici archaeological collections.
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The reinstallation advances the 'Future in the Ancient' initiative under director Simone Verde and returns the works to an arrangement matching eighteenth-century iconographic sources. It follows the earlier re-establishment of the Hall of Ancient Marbles and positions the Uffizi's holdings alongside those of the Capitoline Museums. The project also includes ongoing efforts to recreate the historical layout of inscriptions in the corridors.
- People: Simone Verde, Luigi Lanzi
- Museums: Uffizi Galleries
- Locations: Florence
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