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Chazen gets exceptional ‘Offering of the Angels’

Forty-five artworks traveling from the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, will be featured in “Offering of the Angels: Painting and Tapestries from the Uffizi Gallery,” a historically important exhibition that opens Friday Aug. 24 at the Chazen Museum of Art, 750 University Ave. “It?s thrilling and a very rare opportunity to be able to show works of art from this period of such high quality ? and from the museum that is really at the foundation of our idea of museums,” said Chazen curator of paintings and sculpture Maria Saffiotti Dale, whose expertise is in Italian Renaissance art.