{"id":597,"date":"2009-10-22T13:17:53","date_gmt":"2009-10-22T19:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tuscanyvillas.com\/blog\/597\/from-florence-news-for-art-lovers.htm"},"modified":"2010-03-18T10:49:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T16:49:21","slug":"from-florence-news-for-art-lovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tuscanyvillas.com\/blog\/from-florence-news-for-art-lovers\/","title":{"rendered":"From Florence &#8211; News for Art Lovers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tuscanyvillas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/FoUGlogo3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"FoUG logo 3\" border=\"0\" alt=\"FoUG logo 3\" src=\"https:\/\/tuscanyvillas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/FoUGlogo3_thumb.png\" width=\"66\" height=\"117\" \/><\/a>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>Ongoing Restoration at the Uffizi Gallery!&#160; The Uffizi Gallery will soon double in size with the opening of the newly revived first floor.&#160; Work is now underway to expand what is being called the \u201cNew Uffizi\u201d, which will allow the museum to bring out hundreds of masterpieces now being kept in storage.&#160; The number of works of art on display will expand to 2000 from the present 1200.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>The giant Laocoon marble restoration that has just been unveiled will be able to be viewed by visitors once again.&#160; Because the marble group could not be moved the process was very complex, requiring a temporary worksite and sophisticated tools.<\/p>\n<p>&#160;<\/p>\n<p>Restoration of seven huge tapestries woven of wool, silk, silver and gold threads depicting the Valois Festivals staged at the French court of the Queen Catherine de Medici is underway.&#160; The new Uffizi project is allocating a room with proper light, humidity and temperature for a rotating exhibition of these seven splendid tapestries, as each one is restored.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tuscanyvillas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/200px-Laoconte.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"200px-Laoconte\" src=\"https:\/\/tuscanyvillas.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/200px-Laoconte_thumb.jpg\" width=\"204\" height=\"204\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#160; Ongoing Restoration at the Uffizi Gallery!&#160; The Uffizi Gallery will soon double in size with the opening of the newly revived first floor.&#160; Work is now underway to expand what is being called the \u201cNew Uffizi\u201d, which will allow the museum to bring out hundreds of masterpieces now being kept in storage.&#160; The number &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tuscanyvillas.com\/blog\/from-florence-news-for-art-lovers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From Florence &#8211; News for Art Lovers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tuscanyvillas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tuscanyvillas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tuscanyvillas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tuscanyvillas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tuscanyvillas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tuscanyvillas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":652,"href":"https:\/\/tuscanyvillas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions\/652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tuscanyvillas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tuscanyvillas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tuscanyvillas.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}