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painting of christ with a halo and dove above his head with several angels, outside with a blue sky and trees
Should the Uffizi's Religious Art be Returned to Churches?
Eike Schmidt, the director of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence since 2015, recently bemoaned the fact that so many great works of religious art are languishing in museum storage.
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