Vasari Corridor, after vandalism the cleanup. Schmidt: Now armed vigilance

After thedefacement, at the Uffizi it is the day of the cleaning of the pillars of the Vasari Corridor vandalized last night by unknown persons. Following the conclusion of investigations conducted by the Carabinieri, the Uffizi Galleries kicked off operations this morning to clean and restore the surface of the pillars of the Vasarian Corridor. The work, supervised directly by the museum complex’s architects, will last several days.

About 10,000 euros is the amount of expenditure to repair the damage done to the monument, Uffizi Galleries technicians calculate. “We will constitute ourselves as a civil party,” explains director Eike Schmidt, “and we will demand from those responsible not only this sum, but under the Urbani Code also the damage for the unauthorized advertising of a commercial brand, that of the inscription, quantifiable on the basis of the market in a figure of up to an additional 100 thousand euros. It does not matter in this context whether or not the defacees acted in the name of the brand they were trying to promote.”

Starting in September, Schmidt let Schmidt know, under the loggias of the Uffizi and Vasari Corridor, there will be “an armed guard service that will cover all hours of the day and night, to protect our monuments from shameful episodes of this kind. We introduced armed guards at Boboli and Pitti Square last spring, with excellent results. The future guard outside the Uffizi will also be connected directly to the museum’s video surveillance control room and the Carabinieri barracks inside the Uffizi. These measures are unfortunately necessary to deter vandals and against abuse toward our cultural heritage.”

Vasari Corridor, after vandalism the cleanup. Schmidt: Now armed vigilance

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