Crowned Europe’s Best City of 2025, Florence has it all: stunning art and architecture made by the world’s greatest Renaissance masters, an idyllic subtropical climate perfect for basking in the ...

The director of an art gallery in Florence has criticised a tourist for ripping the canvas of a historic painting while taking a selfie and has vowed to crack down on visitors posing next to artwork.

FLORENCE, Italy — Four years ago, a Florentine restorer happened upon a painting fragment peeking out of an envelope stored in a depository at the city’s famed museum, the Uffizi Gallery. It depicted ...

Image still from The Innocents of Florence (2019), Nicoletta Fontani preparing conservation materials to work on “Mother of the Innocents” (1446) (all images via The Innocents of Florence) For all of ...

Florence, Italy? Madonna and child. Assorted saints with halos. The paintings hang in rows from huge metal racks awaiting their fate in storerooms 40 years after they were battered and torn by the ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Geographically small but culturally rich, Florence — two hours northwest of Rome — is home to some of the greatest art and architecture in the world. In a ...

The faint smell of oil paint and turpentine, years and years of it, wafts through this studio. It's a sanctuary – no ringing cellphones – and a throwback, a place to learn an art almost lost to time.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. FLORENCE, Italy (AP) — A Dutch still-life ...

Owner, 1973: Inventory List, 1971. "Mead, Katherine Harper, ed., "The Preston Morton Collection of American Art," Santa Barbara, CA: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1981 ...