The tale of a journey through a place that contains the quintessence of Western art. Its original nucleus derives from the Medici family's collections, and today it boasts a collection of inestimable value from ancient statues to contemporary art passing through the iconic masterpieces of Botticelli, Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, Caravaggio and many others.
Live Video | Anna Bisceglia illustrates Raphael's masterpieces on the day of the Gifts celebration.
The Uffizi
On January 31, 1504, Agnolo Doni and Maddalena Strozzi were married and commissioned three masterpieces of sixteenth-century art from Raphael and Michelangelo.
Paola Burberi tells us about a splendid polyptych that was found in the church of Ognissanti in Florence.
Press presentation of the reopening
We admire the print together with another masterpiece of graphic art, signed by the master Albrecht Dürer, "The knight, death and the devil", with Maria Pertini.
In 1819, the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, after a visit to the Uffizi, wrote "On the Medusa by Leonardo da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery", thus following the traditional attribution of the painting at that time (whereas nowadays it is attributed to a 17th-century Flemish painter). The poet's verses demonstrate how the painting exactly responds to the canons of the Romantic idea of "sublime"
Video in Italian | The fascinating portrait of St. James the Greater made by Benvenuto Tisi, known as il Garofalo
Videos in Spanish | Borja Purroy tells us about a painting created by the Lombard painter Bernardino Licinio around 1540, but which appears to come from a collection of Modern and Contemporary Art.
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.
Alejandra Micheli nos abre otra vez las puertas de los depósitos, para visitar una obra del pintor ya en su época apodado por sus contemporáneos "El Divino"
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 New York art historian Jonathan Nelson shows us an extraordinary work, in which appears a moor who had intrigued Giorgio Vasari himself
Carl Brandon Strehlke, American-born medieval art historian, shows us "the blue of gold" in the early fifteenth-century masterpiece
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
Video in Latin | A real recordman of chariot racing from Hadrian's and Antoninus Pius's ages
A masterpiece presented by the Director of the Opera Duomo Museum, Mons. Timothy Verdon
Video in Italian | A piece of an original altarpiece gone lost
Video in Italian | Protector of kids, known in the Nordic countries as Santa Claus or Father Christmas
Video in Italian | The patron who commissioned the work felt as if the painter had been willing to laugh at him
