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An eight-year restoration campaign has been completed in the New Sacristy of the Medici Chapels. The tombs and wall coverings have undergone a conservative restoration by ...
Restoration work has been completed on a portrait of sixteenth-century poet Laura Battiferri, painted by Agnolo Bronzino. The painting, which is kept in the Palazzo Vecchio, is about to go on loan to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The works were undertaken by the Bargello Museums and the Opificio delle Pietre Dure, with the financial support of Friends of Florence.
In Florence Cathedral, steps and a viewing platform have been added to enable an up-close look at Domenico di Michelino’s 1465 painting, Comedy Illuminating Florence. Part of the celebrations to ...
The Galleria dell’Accademia reopens to the public on Thursday, May 6 with a striking new layout. Over 600 artworks were moved during the closure, which the museum used ...
On Tuesday, May 4, the Uffizi reopened its doors to the public. The first two people to return to the hallowed halls were Giacomo, 40, and Monica, 48, a couple ...
For seven hours, each day for seven days, Marisa Garreffa sits and sews, listens and remembers, stitching together the emotional landscape of Florence in May 2021, enacting a ritual of healing.
The David’s “twin” was conceived via a complex digitalization process that involved roughly 40 hours of scanning Michelangelo’s original in the Galleria dell’Accademia.
The conservation and restoration of the Archangel Raffaele e Tobiolo, which Giovanni Baratta sculpted between 1696 and 1698, has proven a months-long labour of love for the Mircea Maria Gerard ...
Now that Tuscany has returned to yellow zone status, Florence’s museums and cultural centres are reopening their doors to the public. Please note that booking is mandatory at weekends to ...
Visitors who return to the Uffizi this summer will find changes as Florence’s foremost museum expands its cultural offering. When the Uffizi reopens its doors ...
The crumbling former premises of the Oriuolo Theatre in front of the Oblate Library have been demolished to make way for a new cultural space. ...
The work by Giulia Peyrone makes use of construction grade textiles and specialized printers to create a distinctive artwork within footsteps of Palazzo Pitti.
The frescoed lunette from Porta alla Croce, the city gate in piazza Beccaria, has been restored and moved permanently to the conference room at the Oblate Library. Originating in the ...
A restoration conducted by the Opificio delle Pietre Dure has given Andrea del Castagno’s portrait of Dante a new lease of life. The fresco, which dates to between ...
The aim is to reopen the Vasari Corridor on May 27, 2022, on the anniversary of the Georgofili bombing.
The room vaunts the most important collection of Fra Angelico panel paintings in the world.
Florence’s foremost art gallery may be closed due to the pandemic, but its windows continue to feed the art hungry this Christmas. Marco Lodola’s Luminous Nativity ...
The museum will celebrate the long history of the Italian language, from 960 to Dante and Petrarch and the modern day.
At a time of general uncertainty, in which even the simplest Christmas traditions are called into question, the Andrea Bocelli Foundation is lighting up Florence once more, starting in piazza ...
Back in May 2016, I wrote an article for this newspaper about the restoration of Pietro Lorenzetti’s Arezzo altarpiece from 1320 by RICERCA Restauro, a group of three women who ...
Creative community space Numeroventi is sparking a conversation between Florence and its communities after the Covid-19 lockdown with the collaborative new exhibition titled Past Florence Future – So Close So ...
The gallery will only be open from 2-6.30pm on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, and Saturday and Sunday from 9am-6.30pm, (last entrance 5.30pm) to allow for regular sanitization. Other measures include "distance markers" in front of masterpieces and a maximum of 450 people present at any one time in the museum.
