Eike Dieter Schmidt, the current
director of the Uffizi Galleries in Florence and a possible
candidate in mayoral elections in the Tuscan regional capital
next year, has been chosen by Culture Minister Gennaro
Sangiuliano to be the new director of the Capodimonte Museum and
Real Bosco in Naples, it emerged late Friday.
The German-born museum director who recently obtained Italian
citizenship will be replaced at the Uffizi by Simone Verde, who
moves to Florence from the Pilotta monumental complex in Parma.
In addition to Schmidt and Verde, two other new directors of
top-tier museums in Italy have also been appointed: Renata
Cristina Mazzantini at the Gallery of Modern and Contemporary
Art in Rome and Angelo Crespi at the Pinacoteca di Brera in
Milan.
Mazzantini is the current curator of the 'Contemporary
Quirinale' project and acts as a consultant to the General
Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic for artistic and
architectural profiles.
Crespi is the current president of the Maga Museum in Gallarate.
"When I heard the news of the appointment, we were on our way to
toast the presentation of an exhibition, and the toast at that
point became for this new appointment. I was really very moved,"
said Schmidt.
The appointments are the result of an international public
selection, even though the candidates were predominantly
Italian.
All the new directors appointed to thetop-tier museums have
Italian citizenship.
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