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 ...

The Uffizi Gallery in Florence is turning some of its most prized artworks into NFTs and selling them to raise funds after a cash-strapped year. And it’s starting off with a bang: an encrypted ...

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 ...

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.

Eike Schmidt, the director, says it is “very important to get the dust off and to show what is relevant.” The museum has been working toward that end. By Robin Pogrebin FLORENCE, Italy — Walking past ...