Florence gallery also planning vast exhibition dedicated to the poet in Forlì featuring works by Michelangelo
Museum chief is asymptomatic and says he will continue working in quarantine
Experts predict that alternative platforms such as Byte App and Dubsmash will now go mainstream and museum's director says it is "ready to jump onto new social media"
Eike Schmidt says up to a thousand works are languishing in state-run stores all over Italy
National spending package includes emergency support for state museums, arts organisations and cultural businesses
We introduced some invasive flora and fauna, and a few subtle deletions to Botticelli's Primevera to keep you entertained during lockdown
Perrotin Gallery leads commercial charge by launching two-month rotating show involving 26 Paris dealers
Closed museums are losing millions in income, ushering in job cuts, appeals for emergency relief and lasting changes in strategy
The committee had advised against moving Raphael’s portrait of Pope Leo X; the museum loaned it to Rome’s Scuderie del Quirinale regardless
Andrea della Robbia’s Mary Magdalene was acquired by Hermann Göring in 1941
The unofficial websites were used to sell tickets to the Florentine museum at inflated prices
This is the first time the Florentine museum has formed a long-term partnership with a foreign institution
Sylvain Bellenger is reappointed in Capodimonte, Cristiana Collu remains at Rome Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna
Uffizi director says he is able to pursue reforms at Florence museum under Italy's new centre-left government
Move comes just one month before the German art historian was due to take the reins of the prestigious museum
The Dutch still-life heads back to the Florence museum after bold campaign by director
Critics say the move by Italy's populist coalition government will compromise the autonomy of museums
The portrait has striking similarities to a recent acquisition by the National Gallery in London
We talk to the British artist as he shows his sculptures with ancient works in the Florentine museum, and we zoom in on the tiny art works that are the subject of a major show London's National Portrait Gallery. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.
Another tourist had an epileptic fit in front of the artist's Venus in 2016
New exhibition in Florence decodes the “startlingly radical” scientific ideas of the Codex Leicester
Exhibition to include works made using signature pyrotechnic technique inspired by Renaissance flora in the Florence museum’s collection
Dutch museum will remove yellowed varnish from Van der Weyden's The Lamentation of Christ
Codex Leicester will go on show in Florence for the first time in almost four decades
The museum's first foreign leader is halfway through his tenure and heading to Vienna in 2019
German-born sculpture specialist was first non-Italian to lead prestigious Florentine institution
Milan’s mayor fails to drag Italian minister of culture into row
The Uffizi in Florence and the Tokyo Fuji Art Museum will share Leonardo’s Tavola Doria
Searching for underdrawings, conservators discover the artist’s reflection