Renaissance Man
<p>Schmidt has led the Uffizi since 2015, guiding the venerable museum onto <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@uffizigalleries?lang=en" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Tik Tok</a> and into <a href="https://news.artnet.com/art-world/uffizi-gallery-michelangelo-botticelli-nfts-1969045" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">NFTs</a>, and for the past few years he and his staff have collaborated with Mia to create <a href="https://new.artsmia.org/exhibition/botticelli-and-renaissance-florence-masterworks-from-the-uffizi" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">“Botticelli and Renaissance Florence: Masterworks from the Uffizi,” </a>a major exhibition opening this month in Minneapolis — its only destination. Many of the works in the show have rarely traveled, and the Botticelli paintings and drawings that form its nucleus amount to one of the largest displays of the artist’s oeuvre ever staged on this side of the Atlantic. “The Florentines are very jealous of their masterpieces,” Schmidt tells me, “as is the government in Rome.” Nevertheless, they were persuaded to share.</p>
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