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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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Bernini Bust of a Woman He Abused Exhibited Alongside Photographs of Survivors

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia November 2, 2021November 3, 2021

The sculpture is paired with contemporary photographs by Ilaria Sagaria in an Uffizi exhibition about violence against women.

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Uffizi Is Suing Pornhub After It Turns Masterpieces Into Live Porn

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia July 21, 2021July 22, 2021

The company’s “Show Me the Nudes” initiative turns classic paintings from international museums into live pornography.

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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.”

Posted inBooks

Contrariness and Subtle Humor from a 19th-Century Proto-Feminist Art Writer

by Alexis Clements April 16, 2019

A recently published volume of Vernon Lee’s writing reveals a woman who is a product of privilege, as well as someone who used what it afforded her to resist the status quo.

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Italy Earmarks €80M for 12 Cultural Projects, Including Rebuilding Colosseum Floor

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton August 5, 2015

On Tuesday Dario Franceschini, Italy’s Minister of Heritage, Culture, and Tourism, announced that the superior council for cultural assets and landscape has committed €80 million (~$87 million) to 12 major cultural projects.

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Uffizi Gallery Opens Exhibition Inside Mafia Boss’s Former House

by Laura C. Mallonee May 26, 2015May 26, 2015

Next month, the doors of an Italian mob boss’s former home will open to the public, thanks in part to the Uffizi Gallery.

Posted inArt

The Secret Life of Paintings

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli July 14, 2012July 16, 2012

Last weekend in a Doylestown, Pennsylvania—which boasts not one but two locally owned, well-stocked bookstores—I picked up an old Phaidon edition of Jacob Burckhardt’s The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy for ten bucks.

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