New opening times during the Holidays in the most visited galleries and museums in Florence, Italy: Bargello, Uffizi and Accademia.
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Tag: Uffizi
#Expo2015, Botticelli’s Venus will not go to Turin
Botticelli’s Venus will not be loaned from Florence’s Uffizi Gallery to Turin’s Reggia di Venaria for the Milan Expo 2015 world’s fair, Culture Minister Dario Franceschini said.
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From July 2014 friday nights at the Uffizi Gallery
Changes bring Italy into line with Europe, culture minister said. New opening times and tariffs for monuments, museums.
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Uffizi: new rooms with a donation from Ferragamo
The Superintendent of Polo Museale Fiorentino signed an important agreement with Salvatore Ferragamo for the funding needed to break ground on a significant project to upgrade the air treatment and security systems of eight rooms in the Uffizi Gallery.
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Tavola Doria displayed at the Uffizi Gallery
A hundred days to see the so-called Tavola Doria in the Uffizi, a copy of the Battle of Anghiari by Leonardo da Vinci.
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Prints and Drawings Collection of the Uffizi (1848-1918)
The graphic collection of the Uffizi, due to its old and sedimented cultural heritage, is characterized by an inextricable intertwining of history, tradition and critique.
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Bill Viola visited his Self-Portrait at the Vasari Corridor
The American artist Bill Viola yesterday visited the Vasari Corridor inside Florence’s Uffizi Gallery and admired his self-portrait Submerged. In its Uffizi section the Vasari Corridor is used to exhibit the museum’s famous collection of self-portraits.
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Medieval Skeletons Found at Uffizi Gallery
Dozens of skeletons was found under the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. According to archaeologists, it was found a medieval mass grave near the renowned museum.
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Clooney asks the return of Mona Lisa in Florence
There is a new famous testimonial for the return of Leonardo Da Vinci’s famous portrait, the Mona Lisa, to the city of Florence from the Louvre Museum in Paris. The american actor George Clooney warned that he would make the provocative call for the Mona Lisa to leave its French sanctuary
Read moreUffizi fresco finally fixed
A piece of a 16th-century fresco that fell from the ceiling of a corridor in Florence’s Uffizi Gallery on February 6 has been put back, Florentine museums chief Cristina Acidini said Wednesday. “The restoration achieved the expected results and the fresco is nicely back together,” she said.
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