On Monday, Sandro Botticelli’s Birth of Venus and Spring, two of the most adored artworks in the history of art, were unveiled to the public in a new setting at Florence’s Uffizi Gallery, which has ...

Most Famous, Paintings in the World. Museums across the world are home to some of the most well-known paintings of all time. ...

The damage to a centuries-old painting in the Italian museum was just one of many tourist incidents raising ire on the continent. By Amelia Nierenberg A reviled crane used during the expansion of the ...

Fabrizio Boschi, “The Miracle of the Manna” (ca. 1594–1597), oil on canvas, 56.7 x 90.2 inches (all images from the collection of the Uffizi Gallery, courtesy the James A. Michener Museum) Last ...

Director Eike Schmidt of Florence’s famed Uffizi Galleries is playing hardball with the German authorities who have yet to return a Dutch painting stolen from the museum’s collection during World War ...

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The exhibition "Museum of the Russian Icons" is now open at the Palazzo Pitti. Installation view of “The Museum of Russian Icons" at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. Courtesy of the Uffizi ...

A tourist attempting to capture a picture of himself in front of an 18th-century portrait at the Uffizi Galleries in Florence tripped and left a hole in the artwork. The man taking a selfie stumbled ...

One of Italy’s top art galleries has appealed to the German government for help in returning an artwork stolen by Nazi troops in 1943. The chief of the Uffizi Galleries in Florence, Eike Schmidt, ...

FLORENCE (Reuters) - Italy's Uffizi gallery is opening new rooms dedicated to 16th and 17th century painters, following nearly a year of renovation carried out with the help of private donors. The 14 ...

In this photo made available on Jan. 1, 2019 by the Uffizi gallery press office, Eike Schmidt, director of the Uffizi Gallery, poses for a photo as he holds onto a copy of a still-life "Vase of ...