After careful and complex restoration work, the Door of the Martyrs and the Door of the Apostles made by Donatello between about 1440 and 1442 have been relocated to the Old Sacristy of the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Florence. The two restored bronze...
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TheUrn of Bottarone, an Etruscan masterpiece housed at the National Archaeological Museum in Florence, has been restored sixty years after the devastating flood that hit the city in 1966. At the time, the Arno also invaded the museum's halls, submerg...
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An extensive program of restorations is involving and will involve the monuments and buildings in Florence's Piazza del Duomo, including Giotto's Campanile, the Eugenian College, and the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo. As the president of theOpera di San...
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Last July, Andreina Contessa was appointed director of the newly formed Galleria dell'Accademia di Firenze and Musei del Bargello museum system, which includes the Galleria dell'Accademia di Firenze, the Museo Nazionale del Bargello, the Museo delle ...
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Florence celebrates Anna Maria Luisa de' Medici, theElectress Palatina, with a day of initiatives sponsored by the Galleria dell'Accademia in Florence and the Bargello Museums. The event is set for Wednesday, Feb. 18, at the Medici Chapel Museum, whe...
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Discovery at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Florence, where a recent investigation has unearthed a volume of extraordinary interest to the history of science: a printed copy of Claudius Ptolemy'sAlmagest, published in Basel in 1551, containing ...
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The Sala della Colonna, a space hitherto accessible to visitors only on limited occasions, will be permanently open to the public starting Sunday, Feb. 1, as part of the Brancacci Chapel and Cloister tour of Santa Maria del Carmine in Florence. The m...
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It closed yesterday, Sunday, January 25, 2026, the Beato Angelico exhibition, the major exhibition that, in Florence, Palazzo Strozzi and Museo Nazionale di San Marco dedicated to Beato Angelico, one of the fathers of the Italian Renaissance(here is ...
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