The Art of Museums – The Uffizi, Florence, with Wolfgang Joop

THE ART OF MUSEUMS presents uniques portrait of the world’s most distinguished galleries through the eyes of a stellar cast of creatives. In the empty halls of eight monumental museums, we experience the raw power of art. Our museums span Europe and reach across the Atlantic| housing paintings from the Middle Ages to the present day. We do this through the eyes and hearts of world renowned creatives. Celebrities like Vivienne Westwood, Marina Abramovic and Karl Ove Knausgaard explore artists from Caravaggio to Kandinsky, from Gentileschi to Goya, showing us how just how relevant and important their artworks continue to be, both to themselves and within the public imagination. In this film we accompany Wolfgang Joop, world famous fashion designer—who has worked in New York, Paris and London to name but a few—around the hallowed halls of one of Europe's oldest art galleries: the Uffizi galleries in Florence. He encounters some of the most famous old-master paintings such as the Venus by Boticelli, and some more esoteric masterpieces like Michelangelo's Doni Tondo.