NewsPhotography
Vast Fratelli Alinari photographic archive saved by Tuscan government
Tuscany has acquired agency collection and will create a new foundation in Florence to preserve its more than five million items
ReviewBooks
Born of hate and contempt, how the Bargello's extraordinary collection of medieval ivories came to be
Book tells the tale of how Italian museum amassed such a vast array of important sculptures thanks to Frenchman Louis-Claude Carrand
NewsUffizi galleries
Hong Kong plans 2020 Botticelli exhibition in unprecedented deal with Italy's Uffizi
This is the first time the Florentine museum has formed a long-term partnership with a foreign institution
NewsConservation & Preservation
Conservators to restore Michelangelo’s Florence Pietà in full view of visitors
Restoration will remove centuries of grime and stabilise the sculpture at the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo
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Renaissance woman Plautilla Nelli's Last Supper unveiled after restoration in Florence
Seven-metre painting offers "canvas proof" that self-taught nun ran an all-female workshop in her convent 450 years ago
ReviewExhibitions
As Prado becomes hub for Fra Angelico works, new show builds on museum's exceptional collection
Paintings by Florentine artist at Madrid institution are beautifully and sensitively displayed alongside an impressive range of works in other media
NewsPolitics
Plan to merge Uffizi and Accademia in Florence stokes row over Italian museums reform
Critics say the move by Italy's populist coalition government will compromise the autonomy of museums
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Alinari, world’s oldest photography agency, faces crisis
As Fratelli Alinari vacates its Italian headquarters, there are hopes that Tuscan government will rescue the historic collection
NewsMuseums & Heritage
X-ray of Uffizi's Artemisia Gentileschi reveals a tantalising underpainting
The portrait has striking similarities to a recent acquisition by the National Gallery in London
PreviewExhibitions
The Medici touch: exhibition shows how Florence fell for Islamic art
Six centuries of city’s connection to Muslim world explored in rare Uffizi and Bargello collaboration
News
Carsten Höller puts plant life to the test—with slides—at Palazzo Strozzi
The Belgian-born artist has devised experiment with Italian scientist Stefano Mancuso
PreviewExhibitions
From social realism to human waste: new exhibition looks at Italy’s post-war art scene
Show in Florence aims to bring "the complexity of the Italian art world” to an international audience
NewsBill Viola
Bill Viola reimagines the Renaissance with a retrospective in Florence
In 1974, fresh after graduating from the experimental studies programme at Syracuse University’s visual and performaning arts department, Bill Viola moved to Florence to work at Art/Tapes/22, one of the first video art production studios in Europe
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Bill Viola reimagines the Renaissance with a retrospective in Florence
The Palazzo Strozzi mixes Viola's videos and installations with the Old Masters that inspired them
ArchiveUffizi galleries
Uffizi draws the line at Leonardo loan request for Milan Expo show
Milan’s mayor fails to drag Italian minister of culture into row
ArchiveIsabella d'Este
Books: Isabella d’Este's hunt for a Leonardo painting
Isabella d’Este was not satisfied with an objet d’art and a drawing; she was determined to have Leonardo da Vinci paint her portrait
ArchiveLeonardo da Vinci
Now you see it, now you don’t: restorers wash Leonardo drawing away
Catastrophe strikes as restorers use routine conservation method
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Cavallini discovery reopens superiority debate between Quattrocento Roman and Florentine schools
Will Cavallini or Giotto reign supreme?
ArchiveLeonardo da Vinci
Palazzo Vecchio Leonardo discovery doubted
The unfinished fresco may lie under Vasari's contribution to the Palazzo
ArchiveMuseums & Heritage
The rebirth of Florence's Villa Stibbert
Director Cristina Aschengreen-Piacenti has pioneered the project, refusing to allow the residence of a great Anglo-Florentine collector to fade from memory
ArchiveLooted art
Florentine seizure of war-theft paintings on loan from New Zealand
It is alleged that they were stolen from the collection of Cino Vitta, head of the Jewish community in Florence during the war
ArchiveBooks
Furniture in the Palazzo Pitti, table tops take the palm
The second of the four volume series on the furniture of the Pitti Palace makes its debut
ArchiveExhibitions
Italy turns to Modernism as Warhol goes on show in Rome and Florence galleries are revitalised
Beautiful art in the Beautiful Country
ArchiveUffizi galleries
High-tech advances at the Uffizi to transform air conditioning, conservation, and data maintenance
Progress on the “Uffizi advanced technology project” in Florence is going well.