Uffizi - Finestre sull'Arte

Uffizi, new light for Sala della Niobe, where the great Roman horse returns

After nearly two decades in storage, the great Roman horse from the 1st-2nd century AD is back to occupy the center of the Sala della Niobe at the Uffizi in Florence. The ancient sculpture, part of the famous Niobe group, has been restored and reloca...
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Uffizi opens three new rooms dedicated to masterpieces by Andrea del Sarto and Fra Bartolomeo

An artistic journey through the "modern manner" of the Florentine Renaissance opens today at the Uffizi Gallery, with the inauguration of three new rooms dedicated to great masters such as Andrea del Sarto, Fra' Bartolomeo and the circle of artists a...
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Uffizi, refurbished Sale dei Fiamminghi and Sala dei Marmi Antichi

The Uffizi Galleries renew and expand with a double inauguration celebrating the refurbishment of two important spaces in the Florence museum. In the presence of the Minister of Culture, Gennaro Sangiuliano, and the director of the Galleries, Simone ...
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In 2024, the Uffizi Diffusi at the Vittoriale with an exhibition on the link between D'Annunzio and Tuscany

The collaboration between the Uffizi and the Vittoriale degli Italiani had already been announced last spring, and now the Florentine museum is announcing what will be the project that will see the two institutions working together: in 2024, in fact,...
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The Uffizi according to Eike Schmidt. End-of-term mega-interview with German director.

Eike Schmidt, director of the Uffizi, will leave after eight years the museum he has directed since 2015. Schmidt, a German from Freiburg im Breisgau, born in 1968, is among the first cohort of directors of autonomous institutes created under the 201...
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Start 2023 with a bang for the Uffizi: purchased masterpiece by Francesco Hayez

The Uffizi 's 2023 begins with important news: the Florentine museum has acquired a masterpiece by Francesco Hayez (Venice, 1791 - Milan, 1882), Portrait of Count Colonel Francesco Teodoro Arese Lucini in Prison, an 1828 work by the great exponent of...
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Uffizi Diffusi will have more than 100 locations and will continue for a long time. Interview with Eike Schmidt

A year and a half after the birth of the Uffizi Diffusi project, it is time to take stock: how many more locations will the project have? How will it continue? Next year will also see the first return of a Uffizi work to a local church: to what exten...
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Important seventeenth-century Dante painting featuring Count Ugolino arrives at the Uffizi as a gift

A prestigious and rare Dante acquisition arrives at the Uffizi on the occasion of the Celebrations for the Seven Hundredth Anniversary of the Death of Alighieri. In fact, the museum has received as a gift a canvas by Fra' Arsenio, born Donato Mascagn...
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