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Long journey home
By Xinhua Published: May 19, 2021 05:38 PM
Visitors view Piero della Francesca s 1472-75 Portraits of the Duke and Duchess of Urbino on January 21 at the reopening of the Uffizi Galleries in Florence, Tuscany. Photo: AFPArt galleries across Italy marked International Museum Day on Tuesday in a low-key manner, overshadowed by the COVID-19 pandemic and yet confident about the future.
One thing above all supported them through the difficult 15 months since the coronavirus first ravaged the county in late February 2020, prominent directors said. Innovation has inspired us, helping not only to preserve a close relationship with our audience but to broaden and reinvent it, Eike Schmidt, director of the Uffizi Galleries in Florence, told the Xinhua News Agency.
2021-05-18 22:36:13 GMT2021-05-19 06:36:13(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
by Alessandra Cardone
ROME, May 18 (Xinhua) Art galleries across Italy marked International Museum Day on Tuesday in low-key manner, overshadowed by the COVID-19 pandemic and yet confident about the future.
One thing above all supported them through the difficult 15 months since the coronavirus first raged here in late February 2020, prominent directors said. Innovation has inspired us, helping not only to preserve a close relationship with our audience but to broaden and reinvent it, Eike Schmidt, director of the Uffizi Galleries in Florence, told Xinhua.
This was in tune with the theme of this year s International Museum Day The Future of Museums: Recover and Reimagine.
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The Uffizi Gallery Just Sold a Michelangelo NFT for $170,000, and Now Is Quickly Minting More Masterpieces From Its Collection
The Florence museum has Botticelli and Titian NFTs in the works.
Doni Tondo (1505-06).
The Uffizi Gallery in Florence is turning some of its most prized artworks into NFTs and selling them to raise funds after a cash-strapped year. And it’s starting off with a bang: an encrypted Michelangelo painting of the holy family,
Doni Tondo (1505–06), just sold for €140,000 ($170,000).
The museum will split the proceeds with Cinello, an Italian company that has patented a new way to make digital facsimiles of famous paintings, as part of a new partnership announced today. Cinello’s digital artworks, which it calls DAWS, are produced in the dimensions of the original piece, and purport to be completely unique and theft proof. An NFT token is created on the blockchain for each DAW, certifying ownership.
EFERome
Italy’s ‘slow’ return to post-pandemic tourism
Tourists visit the Trevi Fountain in Rome amid country s slow return to tourism. EFE/Mercedes Ortuño Lizarrán
Foreign and local tourists enjoy the beach in the province of Rome. EFE/Mercedes Ortuño Lizarrán
Tourists are slowly returning to Italy after an easing of restrictions following a decrease in coronavirus cases but despite the country’s reopening, figures don’t compare to the usually flooded streets of one of the most visited countries in the world.
The “slow” return of tourism is seeing more local tourists than foreigners, but those who did choose Italy as their holiday destination this spring are pleased to visit the country post pandemic.