Uffizi, new layout for the Northern Renaissance Hall with works drawn from the deposits

At the Uffizi Gallery, the face of the Nordic Renaissance Room, also known as the Room of Adam and Eve because of the presence of the famous couple painted by Lucas Cranach the Elder (Kronach, 1472 - Weimar, 1553), is changing. This is Room 45, on the second floor, and it has been rearranged in order to accommodate nine more paintings in addition to the fourteen currently on display: the new arrangement of the room thus allows for the display of another Adam and Eve pair, the one painted by Hans Baldung Grien (Schwäbisch Gmünd, c. 1485 - Strasbourg, 1545), which had been in the Florentine museum’s storage rooms for ten years.

In the room are works by German and Flemish masters of the late 15th and early 16th centuries: other works include a portrait of Martin Luther by Cranach, and all the canvases by Albrecht Dürer (Nuremberg, 1471 - 1528) owned by the Uffizi, namely St. James the Apostle, St. Philip the Apostle, Madonna and Child, Portrait of the Father, and the famous Adoration of the Magi.

"After many years, Hans Baldung’s splendid Adam and Eve return to be admired by visitors," said the director of the Uffizi Galleries, Eike Schmidt, “mirrored in the same characters painted by Cranach the Elder. Thus an evocative artistic and visual confrontation is reborn, desired for the first time by the historic director Roberto Salvini; moreover, the Northern Renaissance Room is now enhanced by 9 more works than before, and all our Dürer masterpieces finally have the space they were entitled to in the gallery.”

Uffizi, new layout for the Northern Renaissance Hall with works drawn from the deposits

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