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A Weekend with the Medici Family. Streaming Lectures from Florence with Art-Historian and Tour Guide Laura Cirri. SEE YOU ON March 26, 27, 28, 2021 - 9:30 am PST / 12:30 pm EST. 3/26 - From the Origin to the 15th Century. 3/27 - The 16th Century. 3/28 - The 17th & 18th Century Tickets on donation. Each live event will last about 1 hour and you will...

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Florence – city of the duomo, bistecca alla fiorentina and Michelangelo's David – has a relatively small population that is dwarfed by the millions of tourists who swarm to it annually. While the Florentines have a knack for ignoring the hordes, a visitor can feel like one of a herd. So, once you've had your fill of the city's amazing sights, use i...

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Italy has declared its highest level 'red zone' restrictions in half of the country, resulting in the widespread closure of schools and museums, amid a new wave of covid-19 infections. To counteract this unhappy situation, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence has stepped in to offer what are possibly the world's greatest virtual art history lessons. The...

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Florence is set to reopen the Vasari Corridor to the public in 2022, six years after it was closed for safety reasons, with a major restoration due to begin in the coming weeks. The renovation project will get underway after Easter and should take 15 months, the Uffizi Galleries announced today. The Uffizi director Eike Schmidt stated that the Vasa...

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The Uffizi Gallery is one of Italy’s most famous galleries, and it has announced a project called Uffizi Diffusi that will see some of its precious artworks on view at art museums outside Florence. The art will head to museums located in well-known artists' hometowns in an attempt to give more context to the work and artist. Located adjacent to the...

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Florence’s Uffizi Gallery is looking to share its wealth. The museum is launching a new program called “Uffizi Diffusi”—Italian for “scattered Uffizi”—to exhibit works from its renowned collection of Renaissance masterpieces at as many as 100 sites across the greater Tuscany region. “Art can’t survive on big galleries alone,” director Eike Schmidt...

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Modern Italian, like many other languages, originated from Latin.  After the Roman Empire fell, Classical Latin continued to be used for most writings.  A different version, Vulgar Latin, became more commonly spoken by the average person in parts of Italy and eventually led to Classical Italian. Latin continued to change over the centuries, creatin...

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It would be a shame to not explore the quaint beauty that surrounds Florence. There are many villages and hamlets set in the beautiful Tuscan landscape that make the perfect day trip. For a taste of the region’s borghi, countryside, medieval castles, bell towers and Renaissance palaces, and to revel in the classic Tuscan landscape of rows of olive...

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When you hear the name Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a few things spring to mind—and none of them are likely to involve Italian poet Dante Alighieri or opera. Of course there’s good reason for this, with Lecter’s exotic cooking ingredients superseding his gentler affectations. But even so, when author Thomas Harris first imagined how the character might mov...

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The donation of Carlo Del Bravo's collection to the Uffizi Gallery has been completed: the Florentine museum has therefore acquired a collection of 455 works, including paintings, drawings and sculptures, which cover a period ranging from the 17th century to the present day. The works include an extraordinary San Giovannino by Rosso Fiorentino and...

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