Artnet

The Uffizi’s Director Wants to Return Renaissance Artworks to the Churches They Were Originally Made for Hundreds of Years Ago

Should Italian museums return works of Renaissance art to the churches for which they were originally made? Eike Schmidt, the director of the Uffizi gallery in Florence, has been making that case—and ...
Hyperallergic

Uffizi Gallery Director Asks That Religious Art Be Returned to Churches

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Artnet

The Uffizi Gallery’s Decision to Acquire Piece of Street Art Starring a Seminude Mark Wahlberg Has Observers Scratching Their Heads

In a puzzling move, Florence’s Uffizi Gallery, renowned for its unparalleled collection of Italian Renaissance masterpieces, has accepted the donation of a piece by contemporary British street artist ...
The New York Times

Uffizi Gallery, Bastion of Tradition, Evolves (Slowly) With the Times

Eike Schmidt, the director, says it is “very important to get the dust off and to show what is relevant.” The museum has been working toward that end. By Robin Pogrebin FLORENCE, Italy — Walking past ...
Condé Nast Traveler

Florence’s Uffizi Gallery Is Spreading Its Art Around Italy

As one of the oldest museums in the world, Florence's Uffizi Gallery houses remarkable 13th to 18th century works from the likes of Botticelli, Correggio, da Vinci, Raffaello, Michelangelo, and ...
Newsweek

Uffizi Expansion: Making Room for Art

Improving that experience is precisely the goal of the deafening jackhammers, towering cranes and grinding cement trucks now transforming the palazzo built in 1560 by the Medici duke Cosimo I. They ...
The New York Times

Uffizi Gallery

The damage to a centuries-old painting in the Italian museum was just one of many tourist incidents raising ire on the continent. By Amelia Nierenberg A reviled crane used during the expansion of the ...
CNN

Italy’s Uffizi Gallery wants Nazi-looted artwork back from Germany

One of Italy’s top art galleries has appealed to the German government for help in returning an artwork stolen by Nazi troops in 1943. The chief of the Uffizi Galleries in Florence, Eike Schmidt, ...
Observer

Lawyers Can’t Get the Uffizi’s Nazi-Looted Art Back—But the Gallery’s Public Shame Campaign Might

More than 73 years after the last guns stopped firing in World War II, people still are sorting out the mess. These days, the armies are lawyers meeting in court, arguing about artworks that were ...
Fox News

Lightning strikes Uffizi Gallery in Florence, no art damaged

MILAN – The Uffizi Gallery in Florence was struck by lightning before dawn Thursday, setting off alarms that drew both firefighters and anti-terror police. No ...
CNN

Italy’s best-loved gallery tries a new way to attract tourists

They commissioned and collected some of the most pivotal artworks of the Renaissance, building a collection of art that has now been transformed into one of the best known museums in the world. But ...