For the first time in its history, the “seventh art”—filmmaking—comes to Florence’s Uffizi, in the exhibition EISENSTEIN—THE IMAGE REVOLUTION.

In addition to exploring his movies, which were “to the world of images what the uprising of 1917 was to the social, political and economic organisation of the Russian Empire,” the show takes a look at the drawings of this master draughtsman.*

 

EISENSTEIN—THE IMAGE REVOLUTION, through January 7.

UFFIZI, Piazzale degli Uffizi, 6, Florence.

* uffizi.it/en/events/ejzenstejn-la-rivoluzione-delle-immagini

See Peter Bradshaw, “Hallucinating History—When Stalin and Eisenstein Re-Invented a Revolution”:

theguardian.com/film/october-revolution-stalin-sergei-eisenstein

Sergei Eisenstein, drawings, and still from October (1928).