From 26 May to 28 July 2024, an exhibition at the entrance to the Uffizi Gallery will feature the works destroyed by 1993 bombing: the two large canvases by Bartolomeo Manfredi, Concerto and Giocatori di Carte, together with their copies from the period, the study and observation of which were fundamental to their restoration. Thousands of fragments were collected in the hours after the attack, later they were catalogued and used to recompose, like a miraculous jigsaw puzzle, the partial integrity of the masterpieces destroyed by the Mafia.
Exhibiting today the works of Caravaggio's painter Bartolomeo Manfredi, almost completely disintegrated on the night of 27 May 1993, instils in the viewer a message of strong civil determination for the future.
The exhibition is accompanied by the projection of a video with period testimonies of the firefighters who provided first aid, and of the museum workers who intervened on the night of the bombing to try to limit the damage caused by the explosion.
