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
NewsMuseums
Italy extends Eike Schmidt’s leadership of Uffizi for four years
Sylvain Bellenger is reappointed in Capodimonte, Cristiana Collu remains at Rome Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna
NewsAppointments & departures
Uffizi's Eike Schmidt reveals why he cancelled move to Kunsthistorisches Museum at the eleventh hour
Uffizi director says he is able to pursue reforms at Florence museum under Italy's new centre-left government
NewsAppointments
Uffizi’s Eike Schmidt cancels move to Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna
Move comes just one month before the German art historian was due to take the reins of the prestigious museum
NewsRestitution
Uffizi recovers Nazi-looted painting from Germany
The Dutch still life heads back to the Florence museum after bold campaign by director
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
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
Podcast
Antony Gormley at the Uffizi, plus portrait miniatures
We talk to the British artist as he shows his sculptures with ancient works in the Florentine museum, and we zoom in on the tiny art works that are the subject of a major show London's National Portrait Gallery. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.
NewsOld Masters
Heart-stopping: man has heart attack in front of Botticelli
Another tourist had an epileptic fit in front of the artist's Venus in 2016
NewsLeonardo da Vinci
Uffizi launches Leonardo da Vinci 500th celebrations across Italy
New exhibition in Florence decodes the “startlingly radical” scientific ideas of the Codex Leicester
NewsExhibitions
Chinese artist and Netflix star Cai Guo-Qiang gets major show at Uffizi
Exhibition to include works made using signature pyrotechnic technique inspired by Renaissance flora in the Florence museum’s collection
NewsConservation & Preservation
Mauritshuis invites visitors to watch conservators clean its oldest painting
Dutch museum will remove yellowed varnish from Van der Weyden's The Lamentation of Christ
NewsLeonardo da Vinci
Bill Gates to send his Leonardo manuscript to the Uffizi
Codex Leicester will go on show in Florence for the first time in almost four decades
News
How Uffizi 'super-director' Eike Schmidt transformed Florence's tourist magnet
The museum's first foreign leader is halfway through his tenure and heading to Vienna in 2019
NewsAppointments & departures
Uffizi director Eike Schmidt to lead Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum
German-born sculpture specialist was first non-Italian to lead prestigious Florentine institution