is a difficult and extraordinary technique of high craftsmanship, still practiced today by very few workshops. Here is its history. To support this second hypothesis, it should be recalled how Giorgio ...

His trademark sfumato technique, in which (by his own definition ... In the mid-16th century, when the pioneering art historian Giorgio Vasari wrote his influential Lives of the Artists ...

The Vasari Corridor (Corridoio Vasariano)—the secret passageway over the Arno River in Florence that connects the Uffizi Galleries to the Pitti Palace—has reopened following an eight-year ...

A secretive Renaissance-era passageway in Florence connecting the Uffizi Galleries to the Palazzo Pitti, the Medicis’ former residence, has opened to the public for the first time in its nearly ...

Florence's Vasari Corridor, a 750-meter-long elevated passageway that connects the Uffizi Galleries to the Pitti Palace, officially reopened on Saturday (21 December) after a monumental eight-year ...

Now, for the first time in history, the Corridoio Vasariano, or Vasari Corridor, has opened to the general public. Less a corridor, more a private walking trail through the center of Florence ...

space was designed for the ruling Medici dynasty in 1565 by artist and architect Giorgio Vasari. The trail — built in just five months for Cosimo I de’ Medici — connects Florence’s three ...

FLORENCE, Italy — For centuries, Florence’s 16th-century Vasari Corridor was only accessible to dukes and lords. Now, the raised passageway that connects the city's Uffizi Galleries to the ...

For centuries, Florence’s 16th-century Vasari Corridor was only accessible to dukes and lords. Now, the raised passageway that connects the city's Uffizi Galleries to the former residence of the ...