Several rooms on the 'piano
nobile' of the Uffizi will house the central core of the
self-portraits now in the Vasari Corridor by the end of 2017,
Uffizi Director Eike Schmidt told ANSA Wednesday. At least 50 of
the most important works (Rembrandt, Raphael, Pistoletto) will
be moved, and will be followed on a rota basis by the other 730
in the Corridor, he said. Detached frescoes and Roman sculptures
are set to replace them in the Corridor. The transfer plan is
one of the operations linked to the opening up to the public of
the Corridor linking the Uffizi with Palazzo Pitti via the Ponte
Vecchio, which Schmidt announced recently. It will take around a
year to move the self-portraits.
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