These gardens, a short walk from the Uffizi, are a perfect lovers' escape (learn more on the official website).
He would simply build an overground passageway above one side of the Ponte Vecchio, reaching from the Palazzo Pitti to the Uffizi offices.
The Uffizi's director, Antonio Natali - who has consistently opposed the loan - was not there to watch the painting leave.
And nowhere elicits lovelorn sighs more than the Uffizi, with emblems of love like Botticelli's "The Birth of Venus" gracing its walls.
The Uffizi Gallery oversees the passage and it can only be visited on small group tours offered by private operators such as Context Travel.
No photos are allowed and groups are escorted by Uffizi staff.
But the Uffizi and the David are mentioned only in passing in "Inferno, " and Mr. Brown never intended to use them to much effect.
Since the property is near Florence, singles can take in the historic sights in the city like the Uffizi Gallery and the Duomo on their downtime.
The Chimera eventually moved to the Uffizi, and then again to the National Archaeological Museum of Florence, where it can be seen today, a splendid example of the imaginary turned nearly real.
WSJ: The Imaginary Made Nearly Read | The Chimera of Arezzo | Masterpiece by Judith H. Dobrzynski
Such exposure is apparent in Rosso's Mannerist "Moses Defending the Daughters of Jethro" (1523) in the Uffizi museum in Florence, which resembles nothing so much as a brawl on an American river barge.
WSJ: Il Rosso Fiorentino | Deposition | A Maelstrom of Grief | Masterpiece by Peter Plagens
Supporters of the Mafia theory note that it has been blamed for the burning down of the Petruzzelli theatre in Bari in 1991 and the bombing of the Uffizi art gallery in Florence in 1993.
The work has travelled on three previous occasions - to Paris and Milan in the 1930s and for safekeeping during World War II - but this will be the first time it has left the Uffizi since 1945.
When it was discovered in late 1553 near Arezzo, southeast of Florence, along with some smaller bronzes, it was quickly claimed by Cosimo I de' Medici, then the Duke of Florence, later the first Grand Duke of Tuscany, and the founder of the Uffizi.
WSJ: The Imaginary Made Nearly Read | The Chimera of Arezzo | Masterpiece by Judith H. Dobrzynski
There are no sketches or documents relating to the Sistine Madonna's composition, but the museum fills this gap by exhibiting several other Raphaels, including the famous portrait (on loan from the Uffizi) of a melancholy Julius II slumped in his red throne and a portrait of the noblewomen Donna Velata, whose noble features may have inspired Raphael's depiction of Mary in the Sistine Madonna.
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