This fall 2026 the Uffizi Galleries will present Magnifico 1492, a major exhibition dedicated to Lorenzo the Magnificent, the most celebrated figure of the Medici dynasty. The exhibition aims to be an authentic and detailed reconstruction, the most extensive yet, of the Medici’s extraordinary collection, as described and inventoried in 1492, at Lorenzo’s death, when it was housed in the family palace on Via Larga in Florence, today’s Palazzo Medici Riccardi.
The exhibition will bring together a wide selection of paintings and sculptures, with masterpieces alongside objects as varied as vases, gems, cameos, coins, illuminated manuscripts and maps. A diverse ensemble that reflects the multiplicity of interests, passions and curiosities that distinctively characterized the culture of the Medici family. Completing the project will also be the recomposition of one of the most important cycles in the history of Western art, which the Galleries will make known in the coming months.
The exhibition will be able to count on numerous prestigious loans from Italian and international museums: more than one hundred, in total, the works that will delineate the exhibition itinerary.
Lorenzo di Piero de’ Medici (1449-1492), who went down in history as the Magnificent, is universally recognized as the most illustrious representative of the dynasty that ruled Florence and Tuscany between the 15th and 17th centuries. An able politician, but above all an extraordinary promoter of the arts and culture, to the point of embodying the very idea of patronage, he knew how to surround himself with the leading intellectuals of his time, including Angelo Poliziano, Marsilio Ficino and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, as well as artists such as Botticelli and Michelangelo. Thanks to his actions, Florence became the undisputed center of the Renaissance. As the director of the Uffizi Galleries, Simone Verde, pointed out, the figure of Lorenzo represents a “true watershed: his life closes where the world of modern history that we still inhabit today opens. That is, in the year of the discovery of the Americas.”
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| In autumn 2026, the Uffizi Galleries will dedicate a major and historic exhibition to Lorenzo the Magnificent |
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