The 2016 Christmas exhibition inaugurated the Aula Magliabechiana, which will be reserved for Uffizi's temporary exhibitions, located under the Library bearing the same name.

The tricolour protection - The guardians of cultural identity

An encounter with great Western art: an everlasting wonder

The Uffizi

The exhibition brings together forty-eight works from the collections of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford and the Florentine institution hosting it, in continuity with the previous show held at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford last year.

The Collection of Master Drawers. The Hotbed of Invention

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 Revenge of Colour over Line. Venetian Drawings from the Ashmolean Museum and the Uffizi Galleries

The exhibition is dedicated to a particular class of artefacts of high artistic value, albeit small in size: small sculptures in the shape of roundels made of precious stones, dating back to the Hellenistic-Roman period. For centuries, such objects were the core of the Medici's collecting interest and today constitute a large part of the Tesori dei Granduchi museum's heritage in the Uffizi Galleries.

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.

Splendida Minima - Small Precious Sculptures in the Medici Collections: from the Tribuna of Francesco I de' Medici to the Grand Ducal Treasure

The exhibition dedicated to Ardengo Soffici, a figure who played a central role in the artistic and cultural debate of the early 20th century, highlights the important critical and artistic contribution of the Tuscan painter, writer and polemicist.

Discoveries and Massacres. Ardengo Soffici and the Avant-Garde in Florence

The exhibition is a tribute to the Medici collections of clocks, which constitute one of the largest collections of this kind in existence today, and their home, the Pitti Palace, whose sumptuous decorations frequently reflect the theme of the passing of time.  

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.

Real time and reality time: the clocks of the Pitti Palace from the 17th to the 19th century

The exhibition features drawings and prints, mainly unknown to the general public and dating from the first 30 years of the 20th century, which constitute a significant selection of acquisitions obtained through donations or purchases from the Gabinetto Disegni e Stampe between 2004 and 2015.

Glimpses of the 20th century. Drawings by Italian artists between the two wars

The exhibition shows, through genre painting, a varied and unexpected sample of characters from the Medici court embodying the ambivalent world of buffoonery, rusticity and games and who were responsible for the entertainment and amusement of the Lords: an antidote to the always lurking boredom.

Jesters, villains and gamblers at the Medici court

Where Nature, Art, Science and Alchemy meet

Boboli Gardens

Through a group of about fifty artworks, the exhibition presents for the first time to the public the 15th-century Florentine painted wood sculpture; a theme passionately studied by Margrit Lisner and Alessandro Parronchi but which is still a niche and known almost only to insiders, although filled with works of great artistic value.