Dialoguing with art in the Museum of Costume and Fashion

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

Pitti Palace

Museum of Costume and Fashion

The collections of the Museum of Costume and Fashion will be exhibited again on a date to be determined and the &quot;Palazzina della Meridiana&quot; now is closed.The Museum of Costume and Fashion (formerly known as the Costume Gallery) is located in the Palazzina della Meridiana next to the southern wing of Pitti Palace. Started under Grand Duke of Tuscany Peter Leopold by architect Gaspero Maria Paoletti in 1776 and completed in 1830 by Pasquale Poccianti under Grand Duke Leopold II, the building takes its name from the astronomical instrument made by Vincenzo Viviani in 1699. The instrument is in the vestibule &ndash; with the gnomon pinhole &ndash; of Grand Prince Ferdinando de&rsquo; Medici&rsquo;s apartment. Anton Domenico Gabbiani depicted the Allegory of Time and the Arts (1693) in the vault of the vestibule. All the successive dynasties, from the Habsburg-Lorraine family to the House of Savoy, including the regency of Maria Luisa of Parma and the brief reign of Elisa Baciocchi, left their mark on furnishings and decorative wall paintings. Founded in 1983, it was the first State museum in Italy dedicated to the history of fashion and its social significance. Displayed in rotation for conservation reasons,&nbsp;its collections include clothes, jewellery and accessories from the 18th century to today, along with a captivating group of stage costumes worn by movie, theatre and opera stars in works helmed by reknowned&nbsp;20th-century directors. Among ancient garments, the 16th-century funeral clothes&nbsp;of Cosimo I de&rsquo; Medici, Eleanor&nbsp;of Toledo and their son Garzia de&rsquo; Medici have&nbsp;been completely restored and are&nbsp;part of the permanent collection on display.&nbsp;

Traces

 The captivating elevated passage which joins Palazzo Vecchio to the Uffizi has been open to visitors

Passage from Palazzo Vecchio to the Uffizi temporarily closed due to maintenance works

An encounter with great Western art: an everlasting wonder

The Uffizi

To mark the fourth centenary of Leopoldo's birth, the Gallerie degli Uffizi devote an exhibition to the Cardinal with some of the more significant examples of his taste in the various fields that benefited from his discerning expertise and connoisseurship.

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

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.

Leopoldo de' Medici, Prince of Collectors

The splendour of Japanese artistic culture and its close relationship with nature: 39 amazing painted screens on view. Among these characteristic expressions of Japanese art, on display also some artworks revealed for the first time  

The Japanese Renaissance. Nature on painted screens from the 15th to the 17th centuries

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

The King of Spain's Grandchildren

The Uffizi is hosting an exhibition entitled "Ejzenštejn. The Image Revolution" to commemorate the first centenary of the Socialist Revolution in Russia through the drawings of one of the 20th century's greatest cultural revolutionaries.  

Ejzenštejn - The Image Revolution

To celebrate the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, the Uffizi hosts an exhibition comprising a precious group of paintings and engravings on reformed themes from the Medici collections.

Portraits of the Reformation. Luther and Cranach in the Medici Collections

A digital exhibition of the manuscripts of the 33 prison notebooks, produced by the Gramsci Foundation.

" I hate the indifferent" - Artistic, cultural and educational journey through schools and the territory in the footsteps of Antonio Gramsci

From Wednesday 8 November to Saturday 11 November

Maggio Musicale Fiorentino presents the second date with the Cycle Mozart in the White Room of Palazzo Pitti

#UffiziLive

Exhibition of monumental sculptures by the celebrated sculptor Helidon Xhixha in Boboli Gardens.

Helidon Xhixha  -  In Random order

Where Nature, Art, Science and Alchemy meet

Boboli Gardens

The Ephemeral Museum of Fashion

The Uffizi has devised this exhibition to introduce the public to two of its most important new acquisitions of the past two years: two preparatory paintings – one by Luca Giordano, the other by Taddeo Mazzi – for far larger decorative schemes in fresco and on canvas adorning monastic complexes situated in and around Florence

The Uffizi and its Hinterland Preparatory paintings by Luca Giordano and Taddeo Mazzi for two large monastic complexes

From Tuesday 3 October to Saturday 7 October

Maggio Musicale Fiorentino presents concerts of Mozart Cycle in the White Room of Pitti Palace

Energy Thoughts Beauty. It’s all connected

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.

Ytalia

The plaster casts, which the Marchese Leonardo Ginori Lisci donated to the Gallerie Fiorentine many years ago, are on display in the rooms in Palazzo Pitti that host the Tesoro dei Medici, providing us with the only tangible evidence of the magnificent set of lost silver originals

A Tribute to the Grand Duke - Memories of the silver plates for the feast of St. John

Leonardo’s Adoration of the Magi is returning to the Uffizi Gallery after a five-year restoration conducted by the Opificio delle Pietre Dure.

Leonardo's Magic Cosmos - The Adoration of the Magi restored

The drawings selected for the exhibition shed light on the development of Sangallo’s specific technical and graphic methods. He was unquestionably one of the most important architectural draughtsmen of his age.

GIULIANO DA SAN GALLO - Drawings at the Uffizi

The exhibition presents a selection of masterpieces from the towns and villages of the Apennine hinterland of southern Marche, affected by the terrible earthquake.

Hurry up! Marche region 2016-2017. Treasures saved, treasures to be saved

The Gallerie degli Uffizi, in conjunction with the Albertina in Vienna, is devoting an exhibition to the Austrian artist Maria Lassnig (1914 – 2014), who together with Louise Bourgeois and Joan Mitchell, was one of the most important women artists of the second half of the 20th century. In the last years of her life Lassnig achieved growing recognition for her pioneering role in the feminist movement in the visual arts, a recognition sanctioned almost at the end of her life, in 2013, when she was awarded the Golden Lion for her career at the Venice Biennale.


Maria Lassnig  Woman Power

Plautilla Nelli (Florence 1524-1588), the "first Florentine paintress".

Plautilla Nelli. Art and devotion in the convent in Savonarola's footsteps

The Sala Bianca in Palazzo Pitti is the ideal setting for the exhibition Three Tapestries for a Future Museum. On display are three tapestries, truly magnificent in terms of their quality of execution and size, representative of the Medici, Flemish from Brussels, and French Gobelins manufacturing, the three main centres of the Florentine tapestry collection belonging to the Uffizi Galleries.

Three tapestries for a future museum

The painting in question is not only one of the most remarkable works by foreign artists in the Uffizi Gallery’s collection of 15th century paintings, it is also a unique testimonial to the interest that Italian art patrons took in northern European painting in that period.

The restoration of Nicolas Froment's Triptych despicting the Raising of Lazarus

At Palazzo Pitti, Andito degli Angiolini 100 extremely rare shots from the 1930s to the 1970s recount the history of fashion in Florence through the lens of the photographers from the Foto Locchi 'workshop'.