It contains more than 45,000 photographs taken using various techniques 

The Royal Photographic Archive of the Uffizi lands on the this website 

Generous donation by the  Edwin L. Wiegand Foundation

Donation

From the Uffizi to the Boboli Gardens: a road above the city

Corridoio Vasariano

Un milione di dollari per l'allestimento del Corridoio Vasariano

Uffizi, 1 million dollars to set up the Vasari Corridor

A special program to increase the experience for blind and visually impaired people in the Upper Botanical Garden

Where Nature, Art, Science and Alchemy meet

Boboli Gardens

Coming soon in the Boboli Gardens, the 'Garden of the Senses'

Giuseppe Penone, Ilaria Sagaria and Liu Bolin, among the most important personalities on the current art scene, donated their photographic self-portraits to the Uffizi Galleries

An encounter with great Western art: an everlasting wonder

The Uffizi

The collection of self-portraits at the Uffizi grows with the donation of three shots by contemporary artists

Artworks by Giuseppe Bezzuoli, Luigi Ademollo and Pasquale Romanelli

11 new 19th century works for the Pitti Palace Gallery of Modern Art

The stunning collection now permanently on view: 12 rooms for 255 works and 600 years of art history, from Taddeo Gaddi to Yan Pei-Ming.

The Uffizi Self-portraits

Commemorating the artist and his collaborations in the Uffizi Galleries' intercultural projects

A tribute to Gabin Dabiré, and the black music at the Uffizi

Il "Pittore di storie" dona il suo autoritratto

Yan Pei Ming donates his self-portrait to the Uffizi

Two masterpieces of Roman art in the Boboli Gardens

The restoration of the Dacian statues

Summer 2023 devoted to Archeology

After a masterful restoration carried out by the Opificio delle Pietre Dure

Andrea del Sarto's masterpiece "Pietà di Luco" back in Pitti Palace

The project continues enhancing various Tuscan villages, attracting the attention of international media

Uffizi Diffusi open up to new horizons

An Ophrys hybrid native to the park of the Florentine royal palace has been recorded

Boboli ecosistema creativo: censito un nuovo ibrido di orchidea!

Boboli creative ecosystem: new orchid hybrid spotted!

The rich population of wild orchids is an indication of the health of the park's ecosystem

Anacamptis pyramidalis con farfalla della famiglia Lycaenide - Photo by Rolando Romolini

Wild orchids in the Boboli Gardens

The video from the itinerant performance produced by the Uffizi Galleries presented on the occasion of "Dante's Day 2023"

"Between Forest and Stars": the encounters of Dante in the Boboli Gardens become a feature film!

It is the largest contribution any Florentine Museum has ever received by a private individual

The Uffizi Galleries receive 4.5 million euros (circa $4.8 mln) from american sponsor Veronica Atkins to restore the Amphitheater in the Boboli Gardens

Six new exhibitions for the Gallerie degli Uffizi and Fondazione CR Firenze's "Disseminating Art" project

Lands of the Uffizi is going from strength to strength

Terre degli Uffizi

New opening of the Royal Post Office of the Uffizi

All the numbers of the post pandemic Uffizi Galleries

Uffizi Galleries 2022

Purchased the "Portrait of Colonel Arese Lucini in prison" by Francesco Hayez

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

Pitti Palace

At the Uffizi Galleries a masterpiece of Risorgimento painting

The Uffizi Library

The Uffizi Library reopens with new lighting

At the beginning of the New Year, the painting will return to the Uffizi

15th century

restoration

The restoration of Domenico Veneziano's Santa Lucia de' Magnoli Altarpiece has been unveiled

Two interpretations of “The Last Meeting between Jacopo Foscari and his Family”, inspired by Lord Byron's play “The Two Foscari”, on display together for the first time

The two Foscari by Francesco Hayez at the Gallery of Modern Art

The Room of Bona shines again

Technology and conservation for the Royal Palace of Florence

A brand new 3D model for Pitti Palace

Three works from the 17th century, two from the 20th century and a drawing from the 16th century enter the collection

The Uffizi Galleries at the 2022 Florence Antiques Biennale

The first steps of the collaboration project between the Uffizi Galleries and the Central Asian country

Uffizi o'zbek tilida | Uffizi in Uzbek language

A bridge of art and culture between the Uffizi and Uzbekistan

A great plan for the rebirth of the Medici gardens

Boboli 2030, the garden that will be

Donated by the Amici degli Uffizi, this panel featuring the Ascension of Christ was designed by Maso da San Friano for the Santa Maria del Carmine altarpiece (destroyed in the fire of 1771).

16th century

A gem of 16th-century painting joins the Uffizi

Diversity and inclusion at the Uffizi Galleries are a pivotal topic for our education staff

Uffizi Galleries received a special price for "Uffizi for everyone"

The Terrace of the Map Room of the Uffizi

On the occasion of the spring flowering, the census of wild orchids in the park of the Florentine palace goes on

Wild Orchids in Boboli Gardens

I Carabinieri del nucleo TPC restituiscono agli Uffizi un dipinto del Cinquecento trafugato dalla chiesa di San Michele a Monteripaldi

Back at the Uffizi a 16th cent. Holy Family stolen in 1985

The museums welcomed 1,721,637 visitors, according to the annual ranking on museums by the journal “Il Giornale dell’Arte”

Uffizi Galleries: the most visited place of culture in Italy in 2021

January 27: International Day of Commemoration in memory of the victims of the Holocaust, the "Fiamma" portrait is on display in Pitti Palace

The Uffizi Galleries announce the acquisition of a painting by the German artist Rudolf Levy, deported to Auschwitz

New premises are open in Pitti Palace from 2 January 2022

Palatine Chapel and Museum of Russian icons

The Friends of the Uffizi Gallery have purchased three precious artworks for the Galleries

The Uffizi Galleries are enriched with three important paintings received as a gift from overseas

52 self-portraits by Italian comic book artists enter the prestigious Uffizi collection

Italian Ministry of culture, Uffizi and Lucca Comics & Games combine to foster  the development of comics worldwide

Autumn at the Uffizi Galleries: exhibitions, cultural meetings and live streamings

The canvas, sold at auction, was about to leave Italy

An important acquisition for the Uffizi: the altarpiece for the Borromeo Chapel in Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan

19th century

Elisa Baciocchi and her court

The painting has been long since lost in the USA

The Uffizi acquire the sketch of the ‘Witch of Endor’ by the Romantic painter Giuseppe Sabatelli

They were unveiled during an expansion project

17th and 18th-centuries frescoes discovered

New rooms dedicated to sixteenth-century Florentine, Emilian and Roman painting

The Uffizi reopens with 16th-century masterpieces on display for the first time

The works for the reopening of the Vasari Corridor of the Uffizi Galleries are about to start

Homer’s Riddle by Bartolomeo Passerotti will be displayed in the new 16th century painting rooms

A 16th century masterpiece believed lost is unearthed and joins the Uffizi collections

A journey three hundred masterpieces long, from the 13th to the 20th centuries

Forlì and the Uffizi join forces for the major exhibition dedicated to Dante

Street Art debuts in the Collections of the Uffizi

Donation of a self-portrait by the artist Endless

An Italian-Polish seminar about the art of gardening in historical parks.

Citri et Aurea

The donation includes 455 works including paintings, drawings and sculptures from the 16th to the 21st century.

The collection of Professor Carlo del Bravo, distinguished modern art academic, has been donated to the Uffizi.

Uffizi Galleries Off-site: Forlì 2021 a special exhibition dedicated to Dante

Dante. The vision of art

For a creative approach to the collections of the Uffizi Gallery: the experience of the Drawing as Seeing workshop

The Boboli Gardens reopen on Thursday 21 May!

Jewellery

Raphael and the jewels in the Uffizi Gallery: Elisabetta Gonzaga, Maddalena Doni and the Woman with the Veil

The tribute by the Academy of the Arts of Drawing, five hundred years after his birth

Sculpture

“To Donatello, sculptor in the world of early Renaissance art”

Conservation, collections and museography

Fresco

The Famous Men and Women of Andrea del Castagno in the Uffizi Gallery.

self-portrait

An Evanescent Corpus of Self-Portraits by Annibale Carracci in the Uffizi

The use of gilding in the classical statues of the Uffizi Gallery: the results of ten years of research.

roman art

Archaeology

Marmora aurata

The ways the Uffizi’s self-portraits of artists are perceived in the Museo Fiorentino and the definition of the term “resemblance” in the eighteenth century

18th century

“[…] Reducing to greater perfection and resemblance?”

Leopoldo de’ Medici's systematic search for the “ritratto fatto di sua propria mano"

The colour experiments by Carlo Lasinio in the Uffizis Galleria degli autoritratti

The tradition of terracotta from Impruneta used to make new pots for the Medici citrus plants

Springtime in Boboli Gardens

Paolo Veronese’s Annunciations

Alessandro Mazzanti, restauratore di “somma diligenza e rara perizia”

About the collecting history of some Iuliae Titii in the Uffizi Gallery

La collezione di Apollonio Bassetti al Gabinetto Disegni degli Uffizi

Mediality and Temporality in the ‘poietic’ Self-Portrait by Alessandro Allori (1555)

The Becoming of the Image.

La raccolta epigrafica degli Uffizi. Un dialogo aperto tra collezione storica e nuove acquisizioni

Un nuovo addetto all’officium admissionis:  Titus Aelius Proculus, liberto adrianeo

Notes on a Research Project on the Conditions of Artistic Production, Modes of Reception and Systems of Organisation in the Context of an Early Modern ‘Special Collection’

The Galleria degli autoritratti in the Uffizi.

An outstanding donation to the Uffizi Prints and Drawings Department from an historical firm of luxury leather and writing materials of Florence

The presence of the black identity in the collections of the Uffizi

On Being Present

A mega-exhibition opening in Rome at the Scuderie del Quirinale

Renaissance

Two hundred masterpieces to celebrate Raphael in the fifth centennial of his death

The joint project staged by the Boboli Gardens and the Wilanów Museum begins

“CITRI ET AUREA”

The buffoon of Cosimo I de’ Medici’s court is on display in the middle of Apollo Room in the Palatine Gallery

Bronzino’s Dwarf Morgante returns to the Pitti Palace

Daniele da Volterra’s painting is honored as best painting of the exhibition!

New acquisitions of the Uffizi Galleries at the Biennial International Antiques Fair

The only historical collection of 78 icons in Italy will be exhibited permanently for the first time on the ground floor of the grand-ducal palace.

The collections of Icons at Pitti Palace

The painting will make a guest appearance at two important exhibitions

Madonna with Child also called Madonna della loggia

Botticelli’s Madonna della Loggia goes to Russia for the first time

Two events to remember the important and controversial leader

The Uffizi Galleries and Napoleon's 250th Birthday

From classical sculpture and the history of footwear to the great painting of the 1800s and the art of the 21st century

A year of exhibitions at the Uffizi Galleries

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

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

#UffiziRocks: video-message of the Uffizi Galleries' Director on social media to invite Tool, Ed Sheeran, Eddie Vedder, The Cure and all their fans attending "Firenze Rocks" Festival.

Director Eike Schmidt invites rockers at the Uffizi!

14 new rooms for Venetian and Florentine masters, 105 paintings offering over 1,100 square metre of pure art

New Rooms for the 16th-century painting at the Uffizi

Multicultural story telling at the Uffizi

Factories of Stories

The most important news from the latest diagnostic surveys: the evidence of the painter's ambidexterity and the discovery of a second landscape on the back

The diagnostic campaign of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure on the first landscape by Leonardo

In 2019 important novelties concerning free admission days to enhance the cultural heritage and traditions of Florence

12 free admission days as an opportunity to reflect on cultural heritage

Presentation of the operational planning involving one-and-a-half year works and amounting to 10 million euros.

The project for the rearrangement of the Vasari Corridor is ready!

Director Eike Schmidt's plea. The "Flower Vase" by Jan van Huysum was stolen by Nazi soldiers during WWII but it belongs to Pitti Palace

Flemish art

Flowers

Germany return the painting stolen by the Nazis to Florence

The HyperVision dedicated to the Nativity and Epiphany

"Today a Saviour has been born to you"

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 the "Tesfaye Urgessa. Beyond" exhibition from 18 December 2018 to 3 February 2019.

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

The Uffizi Galleries open to contemporary art in a more and more steadfast and innovative way with “Flora Commedia”, the solo exhibition of Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang curated by director Eike Schmidt together with Laura Donati, curator at the Department of Prints and Drawings. Hosted in the eastern rooms on the first floor, it inaugurat on the 20th of November 2018.

“Flora Commedia”: the solo exhibition of contemporary artist Cai Guo-Qiang at the Uffizi

"Eve tempted by the snake" enriches the 19th-century collection of the Gallery of Modern Art at Pitti Palace.

A new painting by Giuseppe Bezzuoli has entered the Uffizi Galleries' collection

The extraordinary largess of an American donor and the know-how of the “Opificio delle Pietre Dure” will make Bernardino Poccetti’s painting shine again

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