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In this photo made available Thursday, April 22, 2021, a full-length and life-size fresco depicting the young Cosimo II de 'Medici, with the allegories of Florence and Siena, to be attributed to the painter Bernardino Poccetti (1548-1612) is seen on a wall after renovation works in the underground of the Uffizi Gallery, in Florence, Italy, Friday, April 16, 2021 . Recently discovered frescoes and new rooms filled with statuary will give visitors “a glorious introduction” Florence’s Uffizi Galleries when the museum reopens after months of COVID closure. Starting with the reopening, visitors will enter the museum from the west wing, facing the Arno River, where workers restoring galleries have discovered hidden beneath plaster and on ceilings frescoes dating from the 17th and 18th centuries. (Uffizi Gallery via AP)

Italy’s Uffizi discovers lost frescoes during COVID shutdown

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

This image made available on Thursday, Dec. 31, 2020, shows Lucifer, one of the original 88 drawings that went with Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy by artist Federico Zuccari. Florence’s Uffizi Gallery is making available for viewing online 88 rarely displayed drawings of Dante’s Divine Comedy to mark the 700th anniversary in 2021 of the famed Italian poet’s death. The virtual show of high-resolution images of works by the 16th Century Renaissance artist Federico Zuccari will be accessible from Friday “for free, any hour of the day, for everyone,’’ said Uffizi director Eike Schmidt. (Roberto Palermo/Uffizi Gallery via AP)

Italy’s Uffizi opens Dante anniversary with virtual exhibit

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FILE - In this July 19, 2019 file photo, director of the Uffizi Gallery Eike Schmidt speaks during the unveiling ceremony of the &quot;Vase of Flowers&quot; painting by Jan van Huysum, at the Pitti Palace, part of the Uffizi Galleries, in Florence, Italy. On Monday, April 20, 2020, Italy was completing its sixth week of nationwide lockdown with at least two more weeks to go, as part of government efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19. Schmidt expects a boom in visitors after pandemic restrictions end, judging by the experience after previous emergencies closed down one of the world’s most popular museums. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia, file)

Uffizi, accustomed to taming crowds, looks to outbreak’s end

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

Visitors closely admire early Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli's &quot;Spring&quot;, at the Uffizi Gallery museum, in Florence, Italy, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019. To protect the masterpieces in the Uffizi Gallery’s collection, the Florence museum’s director climbed a ladder and hurled an employee’s bicycle down at a sheet of glass specially made to keep prized pieces such as Botticelli’s “Spring” and “Birth of Venus” safe from vandals. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Will populist politics undo a renaissance at Italy’s Uffizi?

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

In this photo made available on Jan. 1, 2019 by the Uffizi gallery press office, Eike Schmidt, director of the Uffizi Gallery, poses for a photo as he holds onto a copy of a still-life &quot;Vase of Flowers&quot;, by Dutch artist Jan van Huysum, with writing in red reading &quot;stolen&quot;, inside the Uffizi gallery, in Florence, Italy. Schmidt is urging Germany to return the Dutch masterpiece stolen by the Nazi troops during World War II, which is in the hands of a German family who hasn’t returned it despite numerous appeals. (Uffizi Gallery press office via AP)

Uffizi urges Germany to return painting stolen by Nazis

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press

German art historian and director of the Uffizi galleries, Eike Schmidt, poses for portraits at the foreign press club in Rome, Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2018. The Uffizzi Galleries in Florence aims to discourage visitor overcrowding and ticket scalpers. Director Like Schmidt says Italy's most-visited art museum is meeting with Italian privacy guarantors to devise ways to use purchasers' photos to thwart scalpers looking to resell tickets at exorbitant prices. (AP Photo/Domenico Stinellis)

Uffizi aims to slash tourist crowds, stop ticket scalpers

By FRANCES D'EMILIO - Associated Press

In this photo taken on Friday, March 31, 2017, Uffizi Gallery director Eike Schmidt looks at the painting ‘’The Miracle of San Filippo,’’ depicting the future pope Benedict XIII surviving an earthquake in 1688, at the Uffizi Gallery, in Florence, Italy. The Uffizi Gallery is showing solidarity with the art-rich, quake-stricken Marche region with an exhibit of treasures saved from a series of earthquakes last year. Eike Schmidt said during a walk-through Friday after the first meeting of culture ministers form the Group of Seven industrialized nations that the 29 selected works were from churches, museums and other buildings either damaged or destroyed in powerful quakes last August and October. (AP Photo/Colleen Barry)

Uffizi Gallery shows treasures saved from last year’s quakes

By COLLEEN BARRY - Associated Press