Word: uffizi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from coast to coast up in outraged arms. The clause eliminates the tax-free status of art donated to museums-and thereby strikes at the heart of the way in which U.S. museums have been built. In Europe, the great museums, from the Louvre and the Prado to the Uffizi, house collections that were initially accumulated by kings and princes. Most are still supported by state funds. In the U.S., by contrast, museums began and have largely continued as communal institutions that relied on the generosity of private donors to make great art available to the public...
...restoration laboratories and storage areas and much of the work on the ground floor of the Uffizi Galleries was also destroyed. Among the works lost are some by Giotto, Botticelli, Filippo Lippi, Masaccio and Simone Martin. The photo library and archives were completely destroyed as well, although 130,000 negatives--covered with oil and thought irretrievably lost -- are now in the process of restoration with the help of Harvard restorers...
...Uffizi Gallery's basement, where art and records were kept in storage, is still a vile reservoir. Those of the ancient synagogue's 12th century scrolls that survived the Nazis are gone. The expert who arrived from Rome took a good look at the remains and dropped dead of a heart attack...
...raise $2,500,000 for salvage operations. One of its first acts: to dispatch 16 expert restorers to the site to help out. But the biggest requirement is helping hands. One California art historian, Eve Borsook of Pasadena, who rescued 130,000 negatives of art objects from the Uffizi, rushed them to Harvard's Villa I Tatti in Florence, the former hilltop home of Connoisseur Bernard Berenson. Then she carefully washed them one by one, saved them...
...water knocked out five panels of Ghiberti's "Doors of Paradise," the famed bronze reliefs on the doors of the Baptistery near the Duomo. It wrecked the priceless 13th century crucifix by Cimabue in the Museum of Santa Croce. In the basements and other galleries of the Uffizi, 1,200 paintings were spattered with mud and grease...