Uffizi’s Raphael To Be Cleaned
The portrait of Pope Julius II in Florence's Uffizi Gallery said by the British National Gallery to be a copy of a Raphael ■painting it possesses—is also .the work of the Italian renaissance master. This claim was I made by Professor Luciano I Berti, director of the Uffizi, and adds to recent controversy over the painting. Professor Berti said the Uffizi portrait of the sixteenth - century Pope, a patron of Raphael, would be cleaned at the end of the tourist season. Only then would it be possible to com-
pare it with the National Gallery portrait. No-one in Florence had in the least under-rated the importance of the discoveries in London, Professor Berti said. But he added that even in the National Gallery statement claiming to possess the original, “the possibility is not excluded that the one in the Uffizi could be a second original, although perhaps with more studio participation.’’ The professor said it had never been claimed that the Uffizi Julius II was the “indisputable original of Raphael.’’
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Press, Volume CX, Issue 32384, 25 August 1970, Page 8
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