Enfilade

This is the fourth of ten planned exhibitions to emerge from a 2021 partnership between the Uffizi and the Bund One Art Museum (with thanks to Art History News for noting it). From coverage in Shine, an affiliate of Shanghai Daily:

18th-Century Masterpieces from the Uffizi
Bund One Art Museum, Shanghai, 11 April — 25 August 2024

The exhibition reveals the artistic evolution brought by the political and social changes in the 18th century through the presentation of the Uffizi’s 18th-century collection of treasures, varying from grand historical themes to detailed common customs, showing a panoramic view of the splendid artistic development during that pivotal period in Western history.

Many modern and even contemporary features began to take shape at this time. It was also the Age of Enlightenment, illuminated by the light of reason, a new secular way of thinking that broke through prejudice and brought an irreversible and progressive change that encompassed culture, economy and society.

The Uffizi’s collection of 18th-century art comes mainly from the customizations and collections of the last descendants of the Medici family (rulers of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany until 1737) and of the Habsburg-Lorraine family, the successors of the Grand Duchy. The exhibition features 80 masterpieces . . .