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An Artemisia Gentileschi Nude Takes Her Top Off

Avatar photo by Elaine Velie November 17, 2022November 17, 2022

Conservators are working to “virtually restore” a Gentileschi painting whose nude figure was covered with draping and veils in the interest of modesty.

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Donatello’s Queer Glamour

by Daniel Larkin July 28, 2022July 28, 2022

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.

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Climate Change Activists Glue Themselves to Priceless Botticelli Painting

Avatar photo by Elaine Velie July 25, 2022July 25, 2022

The protest at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence was the most recent in a string of actions involving activists attaching themselves to artworks.

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Lost Medici Family Frescoes Uncovered by Construction Workers

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia April 27, 2021April 27, 2021

Construction workers happened upon the pair of frescos, dating back as early as the 1600s, during a restoration of the Uffizi Gallery.

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Uffizi Gallery Director Asks That Religious Art Be Returned to Churches

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia June 3, 2020November 5, 2020

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.”

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An Invitation to Get Caught in the Spider’s Web

Avatar photo by Anna Souter June 2, 2020November 5, 2020

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.

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The Baroque Artist Who Captured the World in Her Still Lifes

Avatar photo by Karen Chernick June 2, 2020November 5, 2020

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

by Studio Arts College International September 19, 2019September 26, 2019

Without Limits challenges students to rethink fashion while simultaneously integrating protective technologies for the aging population.

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The Restoration of a 1446 Painting Revisits Florence’s History of Infanticide

Avatar photo by Karen Chernick May 30, 2019May 30, 2019

A documentary dives into the history of the Institute of the Innocents, which housed unwanted babies, and the first painting it ever commissioned.

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Digitally Mapping Cultural Heritage Sites in Italy, Brazil, and Turkey

by Sarah Rose Sharp February 13, 2019February 14, 2019

The Getty Foundation has awarded $1 million in grants to support virtual preservation of cultural locations worldwide.

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Uffizi Gallery Launches Online Campaign for Return of Painting Stolen by Nazis

Avatar photo by Zachary Small January 3, 2019

The Uffizi’s director has used social media to call out Germany authorities who have yet to respond to his requests for restitution.

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The Woman Who Dedicated Her Life to Uncovering the Female Artists of the Italian Renaissance

Avatar photo by Zachary Small July 19, 2018

Jane Fortune once fell in love with the Renaissance artist Plautilla Nelli at a Florence book fair. She’s since devoted her life to uncovering and restoring the great works of hitherto unknown women painters of the last six centuries.

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