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"The Flower Vase" by Jan van Huysum has returned to Pitti Palace!

"The Flower Vase" by Jan van Huysum has returned to Pitti Palace!

The painting stolen by a German soldier during the Second World War has finally been recovered and returned to Italy on 19 July 2019

Figures and symbols in the art of Tesfaye Urgessa on show at the Andito degli Angiolini in Pitti Palace

Figures and symbols in the art of Tesfaye Urgessa on show at the Andito degli Angiolini in Pitti Palace

The rooms of the Andito degli Angiolini in Pitti Palace confirm their vocation as a space for contemporary works at the Uffizi Galleries by hosting...

Sleeping Ariadne, Roman Art

Sleeping Ariadne, Roman Art

Christ Blessing by Spinello Aretino

Christ Blessing by Spinello Aretino

Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple by Niccolò di Buonaccorso

Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple by Niccolò di Buonaccorso

Traces of the “Museo Firenze com’era" in the Uffizi: the archive of Piero Aranguren (Prato 1911- Florence 1988), donated to the Library

Traces of the “Museo Firenze com’era" in the Uffizi: the archive of Piero Aranguren (Prato 1911- Florence 1988), donated to the Library

Piero Aranguren (Prato 1911-Florence 1988) was the architect who brought back the “Museo Firenze com’era (Museum of Florence as it was)”, after a l...

Crucifixion by Niccolò di Pietro Gerini

Crucifixion by Niccolò di Pietro Gerini

Maestra Elisabetta Sirani “Virtuosa del Pennello”

Maestra Elisabetta Sirani “Virtuosa del Pennello”

Baroque painter and printmaker Elisabetta Sirani (1638-1665) was one of Bologna's most innovative and influential artists, especially on the wome...

Apoxyomenos (Athlete with a Scraper), Roman Art

Apoxyomenos (Athlete with a Scraper), Roman Art

An online database for the conservation and study of the Uffizi ancient sculptures

An online database for the conservation and study of the Uffizi ancient sculptures

The idea of digitising the restoration documents for the ancient sculptures in the Uffizi, using SICaR goes back to 2014. SICaR is an open-source s...

The forgotten Grand Duke. The series of Medici-Lorraine busts and their commendation in the so-called Antiricetto of the Gallery of Statues and Paintings

The forgotten Grand Duke. The series of Medici-Lorraine busts and their commendation in the so-called Antiricetto of the Gallery of Statues and Paintings

The article reconstructs the significance and structure of the theory behind the Medici-Lorraine busts which have been on display in the antiricett...

Florence and the Middle East. A Cultural Arabesque

Florence and the Middle East. A Cultural Arabesque

What is widely known in the Western world as Arabesque refers of an artistic representation of the interminable order and unison of nature that lea...

The promotion of the collection of prints and drawings of the Uffizi and the publication of the “Olschki Portfolios” (1912-1921)

The promotion of the collection of prints and drawings of the Uffizi and the publication of the “Olschki Portfolios” (1912-1921)

The publication of the reproductions of I Disegni della R. Galleria (The Drawings of the Royal Gallery) was launched in 1912 by Giovanni Poggi, the...

News about a Painting at the Uffizi: the Queen of Armenia by Mario Balassi

News about a Painting at the Uffizi: the Queen of Armenia by Mario Balassi

Archival research and meticulous stylistic studies have led to the complete reinterpretation of a painting of the Uffizi Galleries. Previously beli...

The King of Spain’s Grandchildren: Anton Raphael Mengs and Florence

The King of Spain’s Grandchildren: Anton Raphael Mengs and Florence

The Niches Room of Pitti Palace hosts an exhibition dedicated to Anton Raphael Mengs and his relationships with Florence. Painted by Mengs in Flore...