Scholars
Scholars can find out here all that is needed to arrange their researches on the Uffizi Galleries’ cultural heritage: access to study rooms, digital archives, photo galleries of artworks from our collections with the opportunity to ask for digital reproductions.
Artworks collection
Department of Prints and Drawings
The Collection of Master Drawers. The Hotbed of Invention
Books and Archives
The Heritage of the Library and Archive
Photographic Departement
From documentation to art photography. A rich and valuable collection of images from the invention of photography to the present day
Notices
Artworks temporarily not on display
The lists are available in pdf format on this page
Uffizi Library and Department of Prints and Drawings. Closings for public holidays
News
Announcements
An outstanding donation to the Uffizi Prints and Drawings Department from an historical firm of luxury leather and writing materials of Florence
82 ancient drawings and 25 etchings
Conservation
The diagnostic campaign of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure on the first landscape by Leonardo
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
Insights
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 software that makes it possible to collect, organise and consult, online, all types of documents about an intervention, with the added possibility of being able to map the information on a measurable 2D image of a sculpture.
Conservation
The 16th-century bronze masterpiece depicting Silenus with Bacchus as a Child shines again
The restoration, which lasted over six months, has been the first one carried out in modern times on the statue by Jacopo del Duca, a bronze copy after an ancient marble allegedly by Lysippos
Insights
The Demidov Collection in the Uffizi Library
Announcements
Uffizi Galleries: "Future in the Ancient"
Director Simone Verde inaugurates new spaces and a new acquisition in the presence of Culture Minister Gennaro Sangiuliano
Announcements
The Uffizi Galleries bring the Hall of Ancient Marbles back to life
A true identity space of the museum, it housed in the 19th century some of the most famous sculptures of the grand ducal collection and the Roman reliefs embedded in the walls that made it unique: reconstructed as it once was, it is now visible to all.
Announcements
Uffizi Galleries: the new rooms of the Flemish Masters
A selection of thirty-one paintings, arranged in three frescoed rooms in the museum's first corridor, showcases the "almost photographic" art of Belgian, Dutch, and German painters of the 15th and 16th centuries: among them, Dürer, Cranach, Memling, Froment, and Van Der Weyden
Announcements
Cicero, Augustus and the others: the Vasari Corridor at the Uffizi welcomes historical figures
More than fifty Roman busts, true masterpieces of imperial portraiture, now adorn the section above the Ponte Vecchio within the renowned aerial passageway in the heart of Florence: they had been in storage since the 1990s
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