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Firenze, April 27, 2020 Exceptional acquisition by the Uffizi - Rare ancient view of Florence A rare print by Hieronymus Cock dating back to 1557, representing a complete view of Renaissance Florence surrounded by its intact ancient walls and fields, was bought in California by the Uffizi and added to the Department of Prints and Drawings collection. The print is a snapshot of Florence in the mid-1500s with its main monuments all perfectly visible and recognazible today, even if not with their present aspect: the Duomo and Baptistery, Palazzo Vecchio, the Bargello, Santa Maria Novella, Palazzo Pitti, the Fortezza da Basso. Next to Palazzo Vecchio there is the structure of the ancient church of San Pier Scheraggio, which later became part of the Uffizi, not yet commissioned by Cosimo I to Giorgio Vasari. This is the second oldest existing printed view of Florence, and the most complete. Composed of three sheets of paper, the print is 36 centimeters high and 1.30 meters wide. A combination of engraving and etching, it was executed in 1557 at the Antwerp printing house of Hieronymus Cock and republished in Paris in 1601. From the original plate only one other print survives, that previously belonged to the pub- lisher Leo Olschki and is now conserved in the Kungliga Biblioteket in Stockholm, Sweden. ''The galleries are happy to have succeeded in buying this extremely rare print'', said Uffizi director Eike Schmidt, who called the artwork ''extremely refined'' as well as ''a document of great sentimental value: in fact it shows us, in all its splendor, the aspect of Medieval and Renaissance Florence''. Uffizi Galleries Eike Schmidt and Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe curator Laura Donati with the new acquisition Detail from the Duomo to Palazzo Vecchio Detail with Palazzo Pitti and Boboli Detail with Fortezza da Basso .

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