Capital city awaits Uffizi treasures

Eighty-two masterpieces from the Uffizi Gallery of Florence, Italy, have been touring Chinese cities since March 2010.

The last stop is Beijing. The travel exhibition The Genres of Painting: Landscape, Still Life and Portrait Paintings will run from March 12 - June 5, at the Cafa Museum of Central Academy of Fine Arts.

The exhibits, arranged in chronological order, from the late 15th to the second half of the 20th century, display not only the works of Florentine artists, like Sandro Botticelli (1445-1510), but masterpieces by artists from other parts of Italy, like Jacopo Tintoretto (1518-1594) and Titian Tiziano Vecellio (1490-1576), as well as classical works from leading artists in German, France and the Netherlands, according to Uffizi Gallery director and exhibition curator Antonio Natali.