A newly recovered 'secret' treasure is exhibited in the rooms adjacent to the Cappella Palatina in Palazzo Pitti: a collection of not very well known artworks, painted by great 17th-century Florentine artists and carefully restored, is made accessible to the general public.

A rich collection of decorative arts in the Medici’s sumptuous Summer Apartments

Between public and private court life: a Palace for three dynasties

Pitti Palace

Treasury of the Grand Dukes

Formerly known as the Silver Museum, the Treasury of the Grand Dukes&nbsp;is located on the ground and mezzanine floors of Pitti Palace, and comprises the rooms that were once the summer apartments of the Medici family. Its walls, entirely frescoed on the occasion of the wedding&nbsp;between&nbsp;Grand Duke of Tuscany Ferdinando II de&rsquo;Medici and Vittoria della Rovere (1637), are one of the first examples of quadrature and trompe-l&rsquo;oeil perspective in Florence. It houses the precious &ldquo;Medici&rsquo;s Treasure&rdquo;: semi-precious stone vases, rock crystals, ambers and ivories. The silverware comes from the &ldquo;Treasure of Salzburg&rdquo; - the collections of the Bishops of Salzburg - and was brought to Florence by Grand Duke of Tuscany Ferdinand&nbsp;III of Habsburg-Lorraine. The Museum also houses an important collection of jewellery realized&nbsp;between the 17th and 20th centuries and has a large section dedicated to contemporary jewellery.

Austerity and Graciousness. The Brotherhood of San Benedetto Bianco in 17th-century Florence

The Gallery of Modern Art of Palazzo Pitti decided to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Florence as the capital city of Italy with an exhibition dedicated to the presence of the King, and specifically to his stay in the Florentine royal Palace, which from 1865 also welcomed the Savoy family, the third great ruling dynasty after the Medici and the Lorraine.

Paintings and sculptures from Neoclassicism to the 1930s: the greatest exponents of Italian art in the sumptuous residence of the Grand Dukes of Habsburg-Lorraine

Gallery of Modern Art

The Gallery of Modern Art is located in the rooms once inhabited by the Habsburg-Lorraine family on the second floor of Pitti Palace, from which there is a magnificent view over Florence and the Boboli Gardens. Its collections of paintings and sculptures, ranging from the end of the 18th century until the first decades of the 20th century, are still being added to through donations and purchases. Once inhabited by the Grand Dukes of Habsburg-Lorraine, these sumptuous rooms host Neoclassical and Romantic artworks and numerous important paintings by the Macchiaioli school, mainly from Diego Martelli&rsquo;s collection. There is indeed a considerable number of historical paintings in the Gallery, including the well-known landscapes of the Maremma area by Giovanni Fattori, leading artist of the Macchiaioli movement. The 19th-century itinerary concludes with works of Symbolist&nbsp;and Divionist movements. Among the various painters on display: F. Hayez, S. Lega, T. Signorini, G. Fattori, C. Pissarro, M. Rosso, G. Boldini, P. Nomellini.

Florence as the Capital of the Kingdom of Italy 1865-2015. The King's bounties and collections

This remarkable exhibition constitutes one of the periodic scientific initiatives promoted as part of the Euploos Project, born in 2006 from the collaboration between the Department of Prints and Drawings of the Uffizi Galleries, the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz Max-Planck-Institut and the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa. 

The Collection of Master Drawers. The Hotbed of Invention

An encounter with great Western art: an everlasting wonder

The Uffizi

Department of Prints and Drawings

Located on the first floor of the Gallery of the Statues and Paintings of the Uffizi, the Department of Prints and Drawings occupies one of the stately spaces which housed the Theater built in the second half of sixteenth century by Bernardo Buontalenti under the Medici family&rsquo;s rule. Between 1952 and 1960 a series of important maintenance works to systematically restore the interior was entrusted to Florentine architect Edoardo Detti (1913-1984), a leading advocate of the Italian Rationalism movement who worked according to the most avant-garde museographic criteria. More recently a new Study Room with over 30 equipped workstations has been installed, designed to offer the many Italian and foreign students who visit the Galleries an atmosphere which is more conducive to research. The Institute houses one of the most important collections of images in the world. Composed of over 177,000 drawings and prints, the collection was started around the mid-seventeenth century by Cardinal Leopoldo de&rsquo; Medici and continues to grow thanks to direct acquisitions and donations. Its huge paper archive dates from the end of the fourteenth century to present day, with a predominance of works from the Italian Renaissance and Tuscan seventeenth century Tuscany. As well as offering academics and researchers access to a photograph gallery and a specialist library, the Department also curates periodic exhibitions and restores its own assets in a highly specialized laboratory.

The draughtsman Federico Barocci. The hive of images

The Sala delle Reali Poste of the Uffizi hosts the fifteenth edition of the exhibition series " I mai visti", offering the visitor 51 artworks depicting the history and identity of the famous hero and demigod of Greek mythology.

The City of Hercules. Mythology and Politics

In line with the World Exposition being held in Milan and whose theme is "Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life", the Modern Art Gallery of Palazzo Pitti is dedicating an event to the Lombard painter Arturo Tosi and the depiction of the fruits of the earth: images that, through sight, can nourish the needs of the mind through that longing for nature that is permanently alive in each of us.

Arturo Tosi. The Fruits of the Earth

An extraordinary collection of engraved lapis lazuli vases with astonishing shapes inspired by the artists of Florentine Mannerism.

Lapis lazuli. The magic of Blue

1968 comes to the Uffizi with an exhibition of 34 works, including paintings and other techniques, representing a timespan from 1956 to 1998.

The Light of Solitude. Gianfranco Ferroni at the Uffizi

The exhibition stems from the banquet held in Palazzo Vecchio on the evening of 5 October 1600 for the Florentine nuptials of Maria de' Medici to Henry IV of France.

The Medici’s collections of paintings on display with a vast array of sumptuous frames, furnishings, stuccoes, silks and Baroque frescoes

Palatine Gallery

The Palatine Gallery and Royal and Imperial Apartments occupy the entire first floor of Pitti Palace, which was the residence of the Medici dynasty, then of Habsburg-Lorraine one and lastly of the House of Savoy, hosting the King of Italy from 1865&nbsp;to 1919. The lavish Gallery was founded between the end of the 18th century and the first decades of the 19th century by the Habsburg-Lorraine family, who hung about 500 masterpieces in the ceremonial rooms chosen from the main Medici&rsquo;s collections. It is an impressive selection, which includes the largest concentration of paintings by Raphael in the world of, as well as invaluable works by Titian, Tintoretto, Caravaggio and Rubens. The paintings in their lavish frames entirely cover the walls of the rooms which are enriched by sculptures, vases and tables with semi-precious stone inlays, typical of 17th-century galleries.&nbsp;The sensational series of frescoes by Pietro da Cortona for Grand Duke of Tuscany Ferdinando II de&rsquo; Medici, realized between 1640 and 1647 in the &ldquo;Planet Rooms&rdquo;, adds to the unique charm of the Gallery, where every work of art is enhanced by the setting and the furnishings

Sweet triumphs and exquisite foldings. Sugar sculptures and napkins for the Florentine nuptials of Maria de' Medici

The Uffizi Gallery inaugurates the 2015 exhibition season with the first monographic show dedicated to the Dutch-born Caravaggesque painter Gerrit van Honthorst, better known to the Italian public as Gherardo delle Notti