The Vasari Corridor is closed to the general public, so gaining access involves some pre-planning.

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On the evening of 26 May 1993, a car packed with explosives detonated near the Vasari Corridor.

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The famous art historian and scholar Giorgio Vasari, writing in the second edition of his Lives of the Artists in 1568, mentioned that Pinturicchio's painting was "over the door of a room in the Apostolic Palace".

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While most international curators often arrange their collections according to style, artist, medium or location, the collection of art in the Vasari corridor is unique in that it hangs chronologically, often in the same spot where various members of the Medici family had originally displayed it.

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