Few people know the name of the artist Jona Ostiglio, but in the late Italian Renaissance he was compared to Caravaggio. The painter lived and worked in Florentine artist Onorio Marinari’s studio and ...
Workers renovating the Uffizi Galleries in Florence have discovered two centuries-old hidden frescoes while expanding the museum’s galleries. The hidden gems, which depict former Grand Dukes ...
Old Masters enthusiasts will now be able to pore through the expansive collection of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy from the comfort of their own home. Thanks to a collaboration between the ...
A visitor has damaged a 17th-century painting at the Uffizi Galleries in Florence after stumbling back into it while posing for a photo, the museum told CNN in a statement. The visitor was visiting ...
ROME (AP) — Italy’s Uffizi Galleries and Hong Kong cultural authorities agreed on Thursday to partner over the next five years on art exhibitions in the Asian city. The first show, to run from ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Eike Schmidt shudders when he remembers how bad the crowds were in Florence before the pandemic. “To cross over ...
The Uffizi Galleries in Florence will show more work by female artists starting this spring, as one of the world’s oldest art museums seeks to redress a historic gender imbalance in a long-term ...
Each year, millions of people flock to the Uffizi Gallery in Florence to see Raphael, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Titian and Botticelli—all giants of the art world, and all, perhaps unsurprisingly, men.
Eike Schmidt, the director, says it is “very important to get the dust off and to show what is relevant.” The museum has been working toward that end. By Robin Pogrebin FLORENCE, Italy — Walking past ...