Videos in Latin | On the back side of the two plates the spouses appear in enigmatic scenes on which scholars never cease to wonder. We present the most suggestive hypotheses with Alejandra Micheli and Alessandro Muscillo.

Couple mysteries: Federico da Montefeltro and Battista Sforza

Davide Brogi talks about some natural glimpses that become a precious source for understanding how the countryside and cities were organized in the 15th century

The discovery of the landscape in Gentile da Fabriano's "Adoration of the Magi"

The New York art historian Jonathan Nelson shows us an extraordinary work, in which appears a moor who had intrigued Giorgio Vasari himself

Adoration of the Magi by Filippino Lippi

Carl Brandon Strehlke, American-born medieval art historian, shows us "the blue of gold" in the early fifteenth-century masterpiece

The Adoration of the Magi by Gentile da Fabriano

Carl Brandon Strehlke, refined art historian, tells us about the fourteenth-century masterpiece, with the first spatial and perspective intuitions and its extraordinary presence of precious details

Giotto's Majesty

Video in Italian | The large basin with around 50 species of water plants

The Boboli Gardens' Aquarium

A masterpiece presented by the Director of the Opera Duomo Museum, Mons. Timothy Verdon

Masaccio and Masolino: St. Anne Metterza

Video in Italian | A piece of an original altarpiece gone lost

The Musician Angel by Rosso Fiorentino

Video in Italian | Protector of kids, known in the Nordic countries as Santa Claus or Father Christmas 

The stories of St. Nicholas by Ambrogio Lorenzetti

Video in Italian | The patron who commissioned the work felt as if the painter had been willing to laugh at him

The disliked painting by Rosso Fiorentino

Video in Italian | Inside a perfect circle: the model for a whole generation of painters from Michelangelo to Andrea del Sarto and Raphael 

The Holy Family by Luca Signorelli

Video in Italian | A wonderful flowering of water lilies in the Boboli Garden's Aquarium

Where Nature, Art, Science and Alchemy meet

Boboli Gardens

The water lily

Video in Italian | Talking about a masterpiece of the 16th century

The Portrait of Eleanor of Toledo by Bronzino

Video in Italian | Talking about the unfinished painting by the genius

The Adoration of the Magi by Leonardo

Video in Italian | Discovering some lesser-known yet gorgeous pieces of art

The pottery of the Contini Bonacossi Collection

The Director of Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi of Florence presents the Portrait of Pietro Secco Suardo

A gorgeous painting by Giovanni Battista Moroni

Video in Italian | A masterpiece by Aristodemo Costoli and Giovan Battista Giorgi with a base by Giovanni Dupré

The Table of the Muses and the art of semiprecious-stone inlay

Video in Italian | The different varieties of tomato still cultivated in the Medicean Gardens

Tomato time in the Boboli Gardens!

Video in Italian | The story of a remarkable masterpiece of the Palatine Gallery

The "Assunta Passerini" by Andrea del Sarto

The Director of the Bargello Museums in Florence introduces the masterpiece by Bernini

The Martyrdom of St. Lawrence by Bernini

The San Martino Annunciation and the Cestello Annunciation

Botticelli's Annunciations

Video in Italian | The oldest varieties of tomatoes from the 16th century in Tuscany, Liguria, Emilia Romagna and Latin America

The Grand Duke's tomato

Video in Italian | The "Madonna of the Snow" by Sassetta from the Contini Bonacossi Collection

The snowfall of 5 August 352 AD

Video in Italian | The marble group of statues by Pio Fedi under the Loggia dei Lanzi

The Rape of Polyxena

Video in Italian | Two paintings tell about the multifaceted personality of the Dutch master.

The Uffizi Rembrandt

A stunning exhibition space housing amazing statues such as Perseus by Benvenuto Cellini

An encounter with great Western art: an everlasting wonder

The Uffizi

The Loggia dei Lanzi

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 | A complex artist in between sciamanic art and magical and ritual beliefs

Joseph Beuys

Video in Italian | The mystery of the cosmos, the secret of the sacred, the enigma of beauty, all in a painting.

Madonna della Seggiola by Raphael

Video in Italian | Much more than the representation of a historical event. 

The Consequences of War by Pieter Paul Rubens

Imperial and Royal Apartments - The alcove of Grand Prince Ferdinando de' Medici

Video in English | Bruce Edelstein (New York University - Firenze) talking about Bronzino's masterpiece

Eleonora di Toledo and her son Giovanni

Video in Italian | The domed ice houses and the avantgarde cooling system

The ice houses of the Boboli Gardens

Video in Italian | Enter with us inside the old ice houses of the Boboli Gardens

The ice houses of the Boboli Gardens - the interior

Video in Italian | Opening doors to some private rooms of the Royal Palace where beauty is an everyday rite

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

Pitti Palace

The Apartment of the Duchess of Aosta in Pitti Palace

The Apartment of the Duchess of Aosta in Pitti Palace - ii

Video in Italian | A journey through the collection of old roses in the Boboli Gardens

The Lord of the Roses - i

Video in Italian | Another lesson about roses by the Gardener of the Boboli Gardens

The Lord of the Roses - ii

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

The Laocoön sculptural group

Video in Italian | The roses of the Adam and Eve Grotto

The Lord of the Roses - iii

Video in Italian | A masterpiece by the master of 16th-century Mannerism

The Dei Altarpiece by Rosso Fiorentino

Video in Italian | Roses, roses and more roses...let's talk about Bourbonian roses!

The Lord of the Roses - iv

Video in Italian | A lush island of roses and orange blossoms around the Fountain by Giambologna

The Lord of the Roses - v

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

Video in Italian | She is the wife of rich notable Bartolomeo Panciatichi and her necklace bears a neverending promise of love

Lucretia Panciatichi by Bronzino

Video in Italian | In a golden sky appear Christ and the Virgin surrounded by a choir of angels and blessed

The Glorification of the Virgin by Beato Angelico

Video in Italian | A stunning late-Gothic Magdalene displays through her perfectly outlined tear drops all her human and earthly pain

The Pietà by Lorenzo d'Alessandro da San Severino

Video in Italian | Discovering the collection of precious objects on the ground floor of Pitti Palace

The ivories at the Treasury of Grand Dukes

Video in Italian | The power of Botticelli's works is to be universal and capable of touching the soul of anybody 

Madonna of the Pomegranate

The Medici Venus in the Tribune of the Uffizi

The Uffizi Diva

Video in Spanish | Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez fue un pintor barroco considerado uno de los máximos exponentes de la pintura española y maestro de la pintura universal

Velázquez at the Uffizi

Video in Italian | A stroll across the depots

The Uffizi Secrets

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


The Sleeping Hermafroditus

Video in Italian | Dated from around 1465, this work offers us a snapshot of domestic intimacy

Madonna and Child with Two Angels by Filippo Lippi

Video in Italian | Who has never been left once in a lifetime? The fault was Cupid's

Psyche Abandoned by Tenerani

Video in Italian | The statue featuring "The Mother" by Adriano Cecioni

I love you, mum!

Video in Italian | Peony looks like a large thornless rose. In this flower, nature really seems to have surpassed itself

Peonies

Video in Spanish | Hoy decidimos abrir los depositos, para mostrarles las dos pinturas de Francisco de Goya que estàn aquì conservadas

The paintings by Francisco Goya in the Uffizi's depots

Video in Italian | The beautifully decorated ceilings of these small rooms reveal a fauna of exotic animals from the New World and unusual details.

#UffiziDecameron

The former Armoury Room on the second corridor of the Uffizi

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

Video in italian | The fascinating masterpiece told by our assistant Marta Pierini

The Incarnation of Jesus by Piero di Cosimo

Video in Italian | The very private rooms of the Grand Dukes of Tuscany, Peter Leopold of Habsburg-Lorraine and Maria Luisa of Bourbon

In the Grand Duchess's Bathroom

Video in Italian | Giuseppe Pellizza is the author of The Fourth Estate, a painting realized in 1901 and preserved in the Museum of the 20th Century in Milan, which became a revolutionary manifesto of non armed struggle

Art and work. Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo

Video in Italian | An autographed work by Federico Barocci told by our assistant Cristina De Caro

Madonna of the People by Federico Barocci

Video in Italian | "Verone" is the name of a covered loggia gathering ancient and Renaissance statues

The Verone on the Arno River and the statue of Silenus cradling Bacchus as a child

Video in Italian | The story of Roxelana and Cameria, mother and daughter of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent

From slave to queen...

Video in Italian | One of the last acquisitions of the Uffizi Galleries

Old Florence...the engraved map by Flemish Hieronymus Cock

Video in Italian | The Battle of San Martino and Solferino of 24th June 1859 painted by Corrado Cagli

The Resistance in Art

Video in Spanish | El San Juan y San Francisco, una obra permeada de una atmósfera visionaria y dramática

Doménikos Theotokópoulos known as El Griego

Video in Italian | The Uffizi Library and its wonders of paper

The Magliabechi Library

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

Stories of ordinary life in ancient Rome

Video in Italian | A small painting at the Uffizi depicts a young girl off balance, the goddess Fortuna, with her foot resting on a sphere and a glass amphora in her hand on the point of breaking at any moment.

The Fortune by Jacopo Ligozzi

Video in Italian | The collection of camellias in the Boboli Gardens

Architecture and Landscape

The "Gentleman" of the Camellias

Video in Spanish | La Virgen con el Niño es datable aproximadamente al 1650, un año dificil para Espana dado el terrible impacto de la peste, que explotò en 1649 


La Virgen con el Niño de Bartolomé Esteban Murillo

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 | An overview on "Worn by the Gods" exhibition

Shoes as seduction tool

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 | A fruit concealing its true identity 

The Deceitful Pear of the Boboli Gardens

Video in Italian | The experience of quarantine to escape the 1523 plague of Florence as a moment of intense creativity for the artist

Cena in Emmaus di Pontormo

The Supper in Emmaus by Pontormo

A lyrical and profound meditation on pain

The Lamentation over the Dead Christ

Video in Italian | One of the oldest paintings preserved in the gallery

The 432 Cross of the Uffizi

A dramatic episode from the life of Jesus

The monumental "Ecce Homo" by Antonio Ciseri

Video in Italian | One of the greatest masterpieces in early 16th-century Florence

The Madonna of the Goldfinch by Raphael

The masterpieces by one of the geniuses of art history

Raphael in the Saturn Room of Pitti Palace

On the occasion of the 500th anniversary of the artist's death

Raphael dying

Entering one of the most captivating premises of Pitti Palace

The Palatine Chapel

Video in Italian | The Ovidian myth of the Niobids and the ancient group of statues

The Niobe Room in the Uffizi

Video in Italian | Strolling across an area of the Boboli Gardens where grape vines have been cultivated since the 16th century

The Grand Dukes' Wine

Video in Italian | One of the most secret premises of Pitti Palace: the kitchen built in the 16th century

The Grand-Ducal Kitchen of Pitti Palace

Video in Italian | Abraham is ready to kill his son but an angel stops his hand just in time...

The Sacrifice of Isaac by Caravaggio

A young maiden chained to a rock patiently waiting for the water to set her free

The Allegory of Patience by Giorgio Vasari

Video in Italian | The "flowers of the wind" growing spontaneously (video in Italian)

The anemones on the Boboli Gardens' meadows

A ceiling from 1581 at the Uffizi speaks about such a dark mood 

What does melancholy look like?

Video in Italian | The miracle of St. Eligius by Jacopo Chimenti

Do you believe in miracles?

Video in Italian | A tribute to grace and femininity in the new rooms dedicated to the 16th-century Venetian artists

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