Few people know the name of the artist Jona Ostiglio, but in the late Italian Renaissance he was compared to Caravaggio. The painter lived and worked in Florentine artist Onorio Marinari’s studio and ...

After much political back-and-forth, the newly-reinstated Italian minister for culture has agreed to extend museum director Eike Schmidt’s tenure at the Uffizi Galleries in Florence. The German art ...

A visitor has damaged a 17th-century painting at the Uffizi Galleries in Florence after stumbling back into it while posing for a photo, the museum told CNN in a statement. The visitor was visiting ...

The director of Florence’s Uffizi Galleries called Wednesday for stiff penalties against vandals who spray-painted graffiti on exterior columns of the Varsari Corridor connecting the famed museum to ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Eike Schmidt shudders when he remembers how bad the crowds were in Florence before the pandemic. “To cross over ...

Construction workers in Italy’s most famous cities are accustomed to digging up all sorts of artifacts, from ancient urns to medieval coins, when they attempt even the simplest building job—after all, ...

Each year, millions of people flock to the Uffizi Gallery in Florence to see Raphael, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Titian and Botticelli—all giants of the art world, and all, perhaps unsurprisingly, men.