News
Woman Caught Gettin’ It On With Florence Statue Sparks Outrage
City officials are searching for the woman after photos of her grinding and kissing a Bacchus sculpture went viral.
Florence
News
Michelangelo’s Secret Room of Sketches Opens to the Public in Italy
The artist is thought to have sequestered in the vault beneath the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Florence for two months to avoid the wrath of Pope Clement VII.
News
Selfie-Seeking Tourist Damages Neptune Statue in Italy
It’s the latest in a slew of incidents concerning tourists trespassing on historic landmarks and cultural heritage sites across the country.
News
Florence Museum Wins Copyright Lawsuit Over Image of "David"
A court ruled that Edizioni Condé Nast used a photograph of Michelangelo's sculpture "insidiously and maliciously” in a magazine cover.
News
An Artemisia Gentileschi Nude Takes Her Top Off
Conservators are working to “virtually restore” a Gentileschi painting whose nude figure was covered with draping and veils in the interest of modesty.
Opinion
Donatello's Queer Glamour
The unorthodox bodies that Donatello sculpted seem intertwined with the unorthodox relationship he developed between his own body and the bodies of other queer men.
News
Climate Change Activists Glue Themselves to Priceless Botticelli Painting
The protest at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence was the most recent in a string of actions involving activists attaching themselves to artworks.
News
Lost Medici Family Frescoes Uncovered by Construction Workers
Construction workers happened upon the pair of frescos, dating back as early as the 1600s, during a restoration of the Uffizi Gallery.
In Brief
Uffizi Gallery Director Asks That Religious Art Be Returned to Churches
Eike Schmidt, who has led the museum since 2015, said that "devotional art was not born as a work of art but for a religious purpose."
Art
An Invitation to Get Caught in the Spider's Web
Tomás Saraceno's retrospective exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi gives a closer look at the lives and creations of spiders to reveal how completely ecologies are entangled and spaces are shared with our nonhuman companions.
Art
The Baroque Artist Who Captured the World in Her Still Lifes
Giovanna Garzoni’s tablescape was a map of the world, and she wanted to chart every detail.
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Join Studio Arts College International in Florence for their Interdisciplinary Design Course, Without Limits
Without Limits challenges students to rethink fashion while simultaneously integrating protective technologies for the aging population.