DOI issue:
No. 327 (June 1920)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21360#0163
STUDIO-TALK
STUDY FOR "LA FONTAINE
DE JOUVENCE.” BY E.RAVEL
FLORENCE.—After being closed for
a long interval, during the war, that
its treaures might be stored in safer places,
the Ufflzi Gallery is once more open to the
public. The opportunity has been taken
under the able directorship of Signor Poggi,
of redistributing and rearranging the pic-
tures ; and the many halls which have been
reopened show an immense improvement
upon the former arrangement. 0 0
The changes made consist chiefly in a
more intelligent grouping together of the
works of each master, and a more helpful
co-ordination of the sequence of masters
and schools; also in a wider distribution,
which leaves the pictures ample space.
Moreover, pictures have been brought
from other galleries to complete the groups,
so that one may study side by side the
works of one master, so far as may be
possible ; while pictures from the Ufflzi
have been sent away when there was good
reason to regard some other as their more
rightful place. No longer, for instance,
are any works by Fra Angelico to be seen
here. They have been carried across to
his own convent of San Marco, where so
many of them were painted ; fitting back,
in some cases, into the very niches for
which they were designed. Thus, that
beautiful old building, with its white
cloisters and wide halls and little quiet
cells, the scene of so many years of the
happy activities of the u Angelic Painter's ”
157
STUDY FOR "LA FONTAINE
DE JOUVENCE.” BY E.RAVEL
FLORENCE.—After being closed for
a long interval, during the war, that
its treaures might be stored in safer places,
the Ufflzi Gallery is once more open to the
public. The opportunity has been taken
under the able directorship of Signor Poggi,
of redistributing and rearranging the pic-
tures ; and the many halls which have been
reopened show an immense improvement
upon the former arrangement. 0 0
The changes made consist chiefly in a
more intelligent grouping together of the
works of each master, and a more helpful
co-ordination of the sequence of masters
and schools; also in a wider distribution,
which leaves the pictures ample space.
Moreover, pictures have been brought
from other galleries to complete the groups,
so that one may study side by side the
works of one master, so far as may be
possible ; while pictures from the Ufflzi
have been sent away when there was good
reason to regard some other as their more
rightful place. No longer, for instance,
are any works by Fra Angelico to be seen
here. They have been carried across to
his own convent of San Marco, where so
many of them were painted ; fitting back,
in some cases, into the very niches for
which they were designed. Thus, that
beautiful old building, with its white
cloisters and wide halls and little quiet
cells, the scene of so many years of the
happy activities of the u Angelic Painter's ”
157