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It is the largest, oldest and most important collection of selfportraits in the world: over 2000 paintings, sculptures and drawings. The rooms of the new exhibition, on the first floor of the Gallery, are bright pink, as an allusion to Cardinal Leopold's robes (his statue, by the great Baroque sculptor Giovanni Battista Foggini, welcomes visitors in the first room), and are organised chronologically from the oldest portrait, the 15th-century portrait of the painters Gaddo, Agnolo and Taddeo Gaddi, up to the last room, where we find the cast-iron sculpture by Antony Gormley, the self-portrait on a mirror by Michelangelo Pistoletto
At a glance
- Typical visit: about 1 hour 30 minutes