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
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
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
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
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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Contrariness and Subtle Humor from a 19th-Century Proto-Feminist Art Writer
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
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
Next month, the doors of an Italian mob boss’s former home will open to the public, thanks in part to the Uffizi Gallery.
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The Secret Life of Paintings
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.