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 ...
Should Italian museums return works of Renaissance art to the churches for which they were originally made?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 ...
This year is the 700th since Dante Alighieri died, in 1321, and over the next year, venues across his native Italy have special events planned in commemoration of the anniversary. For its part, the ...
After the car bomb explosion at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence on May 27, city authorities are now hoping to reopen part of it Saturday. On that day visitors will be able to enter the gallery’s ...
FLORENCE, Italy – The Uffizi Gallery in Florence is showing solidarity with Italy's art-rich, quake-stricken Marche region by hosting an exhibit of treasures saved from a series of earthquakes last ...
People line up to enter in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. AP MILAN — The Uffizi Gallery in Florence was struck by lightning before dawn Thursday, setting ...
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 ...