By Giorgio Vasari’s account of the artist’s life ... and the Blindness of Art History”: What makes Michelangelo’s fresco so arresting is its tension—the sense of an event that will ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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For centuries, the Italian painter Cimabue has been overshadowed by his more famous pupil Giotto, who—with his attention to naturalism and perspective—is widely credited with ushering in the ...

From cavernous underground cities and age-old subterranean passageways to secret sacred hideouts and wartime bunkers, a whole host of atmospheric abandoned spaces unfold beneath the Earth's surface.