Eike Schmidt says up to a thousand works are languishing in state-run stores all over Italy

National spending package includes emergency support for state museums, arts organisations and cultural businesses

We introduced some invasive flora and fauna, and a few subtle deletions to Botticelli's Primevera to keep you entertained during lockdown

Perrotin Gallery leads commercial charge by launching two-month rotating show involving 26 Paris dealers

Closed museums are losing millions in income, ushering in job cuts, appeals for emergency relief and lasting changes in strategy

The committee had advised against moving Raphael’s portrait of Pope Leo X; the museum loaned it to Rome’s Scuderie del Quirinale regardless

Andrea della Robbia’s Mary Magdalene was acquired by Hermann Göring in 1941

The unofficial websites were used to sell tickets to the Florentine museum at inflated prices

This is the first time the Florentine museum has formed a long-term partnership with a foreign institution

Sylvain Bellenger is reappointed in Capodimonte, Cristiana Collu remains at Rome Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna

Uffizi director says he is able to pursue reforms at Florence museum under Italy's new centre-left government

Move comes just one month before the German art historian was due to take the reins of the prestigious museum

The Dutch still-life heads back to the Florence museum after bold campaign by director

Critics say the move by Italy's populist coalition government will compromise the autonomy of museums

The portrait has striking similarities to a recent acquisition by the National Gallery in London

We talk to the British artist as he shows his sculptures with ancient works in the Florentine museum, and we zoom in on the tiny art works that are the subject of a major show London's National Portrait Gallery. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.

Another tourist had an epileptic fit in front of the artist's Venus in 2016

New exhibition in Florence decodes the “startlingly radical” scientific ideas of the Codex Leicester

Exhibition to include works made using signature pyrotechnic technique inspired by Renaissance flora in the Florence museum’s collection

Dutch museum will remove yellowed varnish from Van der Weyden's The Lamentation of Christ

Codex Leicester will go on show in Florence for the first time in almost four decades

The museum's first foreign leader is halfway through his tenure and heading to Vienna in 2019

German-born sculpture specialist was first non-Italian to lead prestigious Florentine institution