A postcard from The Uffizi Gallery
Thinking about the last visit we made to the Uffizi Gallery
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You have probably heard the news about two young activists who threw tomato sauce on one of the paintings from Van Gogh's 'Sunflowers' series at the National Gallery in London.
The canvas was fortunately protected by glass and the painting was returned to its place after only six hours.
Everyone is free to think as they like, but should such an aggressive action really serve to make the World aware of climate change? In my opinion, no, in fact, it damages our chances of access to Culture even more. Climate change is a serious matter. Are we underestimating it? Yes. But, as Gandhi said, 'be the change you want to see in the world', so let's roll up our sleeves!
Anyway, this event made me think of the last visit we made to the Uffizi Gallery, today's postcard.
It was 17 January 2019 and we had booked the first entrance, the 8:15.
We were practically alone in the museum, we could enjoy all the masterpieces in a very unusual calm and empty museum.
What is your favorite museum? Which masterpiece would you stand in front of for hours?
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We lived down the street from The Met in NYC for 8 years, so of course we had a membership. There was an enormous Joan of Arc painting by Jules Bastien-Lepage that I took the opportunity to look at every time we went in. I am no art connoisseur, but I loved how messy and layered the garden was, and how the longer you looked at it, the more into focus the barely-there images of the saints in the background became.
I’ve had the privileged to visit many world class museums but I have to say my favorite is Art Institute of Chicago. My favorite painting hangs there, Renoir’s Two Sisters (on the terrace). I’ve had a print of it hanging in my bedroom for 47 years!!! I even had to replace it a decade ago after the one we first purchased at the museum in 1975 faded!! My next favorite is the Uffizi 💗