On the first floor of the Uffizi, in the rooms frescoed by Luigi Ademollo, the presentation of self-portraits on paper by great masters, selected from the collections of the Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe, continues.
The new exhibition is dedicated to the 19th century, a century in which self-awareness and the urge to spread one's own likeness became stronger among artists, who therefore used all available means, such as drawing and engraving.
The exhibition highlights the different techniques and forms of self-representation, starting with the artists who taught at the Accademia di Firenze or who frequented it - such as Baldassarre Calamai - up to personalities with controversial histories - such as the forger Egisto Rossi, whose three drawings are exhibited.
Among the most significant drawn self-portraits from the end of the 19th century are those in pen by the Florentine sculptor Adriano Cecioni and in pencil by the Ticinese painter Antonio Ciseri, who moved to Florence at a very young age.
