On the occasion of World Latin Language Day, our marbles return to tell and tell about themselves using the language of Rome

A fight in the Tribune

Lucrezia Ungaro - Trajan's forum and the triumph of marble: in search of the "barbarians" between Rome and Florence

Live Video | Live from the first corridor of the Uffizi, Carolina Forasassi talks about the "creative" restorations of the sixteenth century

The creative restorations of the Uffizi

On the occasion of the European Archeology Days Alessandro Muscillo Pretoriani, who speaks in Latin about the Praetorians, guardians of the Emperor.

The Scorpions of the Empire

On the occasion of the European Archeology Days, Carolina Forasassi talks about the Medici Venus in her own language, Greek

The language of Aphrodite

Video in Latin | Novella Lapini and Alessandro Muscillo tell us about some sculptures of Roman women in Latin

Women of Ancient Rome

Video in Latin | Alessandro Muscillo illustrates is latin the myth of the Cretan princess, abandoned by a mortal and then married to a god

The sleeping Ariadne told in Latin

Video in Latin | A real recordman of chariot racing from Hadrian's and Antoninus Pius's ages

The epigraph with Avilius Teres's palmarès

Video in Italian | Vindolanda, a Roman colony built around 85 AD from where a legendary collection of almost 2000-year-old shoes come.

The oldest collection of shoes in the world

Video in Italian | The story of a powerful woman told by Novella Lapini

Domitia Longina, wife of Emperor Domitian: a powerful woman

Video in Italian | The Uffizi Galleries renew their old tradition of purchasing ancient statues to enhance their renowned collection

New acquisition of ancient statues

Video in Latin | The representation of the desperate cry of Laocoön 

An encounter with great Western art: an everlasting wonder

The Uffizi

Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes

Video in Latin | Discovering the greatness of Emperor Trajan

Traianus, Optimus princeps

Video in Latin | Director Eike Schmidt introduces the three-day marathon dedicated to classic antiquity on the occasion of the 2020 European Archaeology Days

Latine loquimur

Video in Italian | One of the most amazing works of antiquity

The Laocoön sculptural group

Video in Italian | The funeral monument for little Procula, prematurely dead and portrayed on the front of the altar, hides terrible accusations on its back.

Ancient cursed tales

The Medici Venus in the Tribune of the Uffizi

The Uffizi Diva

Video in Italian | The famous Roman sculpture from the 2nd century AD after a Hellenistic original


The Sleeping Hermafroditus

Video in Italian | In his Art of Love, Latin poet Ovid speaks of the importance of hairstyle in women.
Indeed, the details of statues' hairstyles of the Uffizi Galleries are informative chronological markers.

Hairstyle in ancient Rome

The Roman epigraphs in the Vasari Auditorium (video in Italian)

Stories of ordinary life in ancient Rome

Video in Italian | Make the effort to imagine the unidentified woman portrayed in the first corridor of the Uffizi, the so-called Julia of Titus.

The most beautiful women in the sculptures of the Uffizi Galleries

Where you can admire Florence on every side (video in Italian)

The Second Corridor of the Uffizi

Video in Italian | There is only one rule in the ancient world: do not defy the gods!

Two Marsyases on the Third Corridor of the Uffizi

Video in Italian | The story of one of the strongest men of antiquity

The bust of Polydamas

Video in Italian | An archaeological tour of the belly of the Uffizi

A journey under the Church of San Pier Scheraggio

The monumental statue in a storytelling by Novella Lapini

The myth of Sleeping Ariadne

Lecture in Italian - Vasari Auditorium – 13th March 2019

Antiquities at the Uffizi

Ancient art within the Uffizi Galleries' collections

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