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Uffizi masterpieces show Black culture's role in the Renaissance

The painting "Perseus frees Andromeda" by Piero di Cosimo is seen at the Uffizi gallery, Italy [Photo: Reuters]

Italy’s Uffizi gallery said on Thursday it was planning to pick out nine of its masterpieces for a project to highlight the part that Black people and culture played in the Renaissance.

Under the “Black Presence” initiative, images of works including Cristofano dell’Altissimo’s “Portrait of the King of Abyssinia” will be posted online from this weekend for a series of discussions and other events.

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