Workers renovating the Uffizi Galleries in Florence have discovered two centuries-old hidden frescoes while expanding the museum’s galleries. The hidden gems, which depict former Grand Dukes ...

The painting hung for over a century in a Florentine palace, framed against a wall covered in red silk. Petite and extraordinarily detailed, the 18th-century work shows full-blown roses and peonies ...

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 ...

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 ...

The museum’s former director, Eike Schmidt, is toying — somewhat mischievously — with entering the race to become Florence’s mayor. By Elisabetta Povoledo Elisabetta Povoledo reported from Rome and ...

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Eike Schmidt, the German-born director of the Uffizi Galleries in Florence, will officially become an Italian citizen tomorrow, he told the Corriere Fiorentino. The news arrived amid rumors, which ...

I’M YOUR VENUS: The Uffizi Gallery in Florence is taking legal action against the Jean Paul Gaultier brand – and a woman is at the centre of the dispute. The Italian museum is suing the fashion house ...

When word flashed around the globe that a car bomb had exploded outside Florence's Uffizi Gallery in May 1993, the world's art community let out a collective gasp. Home to a priceless collection of ...