How they wanted to be seen

摘要

Every year millions of people cross the Ponte Vecchio in Florence not knowing that above them is a corridor displaying the world's greatest collection of self-portraits. Even those who do know, may well be unable to see them. The Vasari corridor, built in 1565, connects the Pitti Palace with the Uffizi Gallery. Although it has been spruced up and re-hung, most recently in 1996, the corridor is closed to all save the most persistent or well-connected because of a chronic shortage of guards.