Title: Firenze e gli Uffizi 3D/4K (Florence and the Uffizi)
After the international success of the art movie ‘Musei Vaticani 3D,’ on the Vatican Museums, Sky Arte HD, Nexo Digital and Magnitudo Film partnered once more to unveil the enchantment of Florence’s Renaissance treasures.
The documentary with some contaminations of fiction, ‘Firenze e gli Uffizi 3D/4K’ (Florence and the Uffizi) combines the most refined 3D technologies to bring audiences to the heart of the Uffizi and the Tuscan capital’s landmarks.
This multidimensional and multi-sensorial experience gives voice to the artwork, also by evoking the emblematic figure of Lorenzo de’ Medici; known as Lorenzo The Magnificent, embodied by British actor Simon Merrells, who has worked both in cinema and television and has a theatrical training.
The film traverses ten of the museum locations in Florence. More than 150 works of art land on the silver screen, in a very effective manner. The Cappella Brancacci, with Masolino’s and Masaccio’s frescos exemplify the landscape of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. The Bargello Museum hosts Donatello’s David. Santa Maria del Fiore is glorified with its glowing glass windows, as the visit continues through Brunelleschi’s Cupola, Palazzo Medici, Piazza della Signoria, Palazzo Vecchi, Galleria dell’ Accademia and the iconic Uffizi.
The building of Uffizi was begun by Giorgio Vasari in 1560 for Cosimo I de’ Medici to accommodate the offices of the Florentine magistrates, hence the name uffizi, “offices”. Over the years, more sections of the palace were recruited to exhibit paintings and sculpture, collected or commissioned by the Medici family.
This emotional narrative, made up of overwhelming Renaissance images captured by the high technology cameras, creates a powerful and breathtaking cinematic voyage through a time and place that marked history of art.
Technical: A
Acting: B-
Story: B+
Overall: B+
Written by: Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi
