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Flash Flood in Florence, Water Seeps Into the Uffizi: Caravaggio’s “Bacchus” Display Case Gets Wet, No Damage

A flash flood struck Florence early this afternoon , with some weather stations recording more than 45 millimeters of rain in one hour. The violent storm also affected the Uffizi Gallery, where water seeped in beneath the skylight in the room housing...
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Botticelli's Pomegranate: A Fruit, the Blood of Christ, and the Unity of the Church

In the center of a roundel housed in the Uffizi Gallery, a mother offers her child a split pomegranate, its seeds a vivid red verging on purple. This is no ordinary gesture: in 15th-century Florentine religious painting, that fruit carries with it ce...
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The Boy Selling Fish at Dusk: A Masterpiece by Ceruti at the Pitti Palace

A sky shifting from pink to gray, the moment when the light of day gives way to twilight. In this twilight light, against a background devoid of architecture, we see a young boy smiling as he tips, with a sudden, decisive gesture, a woven basket onto...
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Caravaggio's Wine: What Does the Goblet Offered by the Uffizi's Bacchus Signify?

One could almost say that Caravaggio’s*Bacchus* (Michelangelo Merisi; Milan, 1571 – Porto Ercole, 1610), now housed in the Uffizi Gallery, is a 20th-century painting: for more than three centuries, in fact, the painting depicting the Ro...
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Uffizi, 50 Million Investment: The Complex Will Be Transformed

In Florence, a total investment of approximately 50 million euros is set to profoundly transform the Uffizi Galleries over the next two years. This is the program of improvements outlined this morning by Director Simone Verde alongside museum officia...
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Uffizi: Venus vs. Spring—the two works face each other in the redesigned Botticelli galleries

The two iconic masterpieces of Renaissance painting by Sandro Botticelli ( Florence, 1445–1510), Venus and Spring, can now be viewed at the Uffizi Galleries in a completely revamped exhibition layout that places them face to face for the first ...
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Uffizi and Seoul National Museum, signed an agreement for cultural cooperation

A new cultural bridge between Italy and South Korea is taking shape in Florence. The Uffizi Galleries and the National Museum of the Republic of Korea in Seoul have in fact signed an agreement that marks the start of a collaboration designed to stren...
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Uffizi, clash between Montanari and Giuli around Cda appointments

The new governance phase of the Uffizi Galleries opens amid controversy. Just days before the formalization of the appointments of the new board of directors for the five-year period 2026-2031, Tomaso Montanari, rector of the University for Foreigner...
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