The characters DKS1860—referring to the football team 1860 Munich—were spray-painted on seven outdoor columns under the famous Italian landmark

The mayor of Florence and the director of the Galleria dell’Accademia have invited the ousted principal and her students on an honorary visit

"Artemisia UpClose" project at Casa Buonarroti in Florence, Italy, will use state-of-the-art technology to show the original painting

A two-year museum overhaul has cleaned a skylight above the famous sculpture and also reinstalled its gallery of 19th-century plaster casts

Officials at the Gallerie degli Uffizi in Florence say that the 15th-century painting was not damaged thanks to protective glass cover

From Michelangelo's David to Botticelli's Birth of Venus, our guide tells you what to see and where to see it

Plus, the Biennale of Sydney looks at the rights of rivers and Eduardo Navarro’s seed installation opens in London

The Renaissance master is "more important than Giotto, Raphael or Caravaggio" say the curators of the show, which will travel to Berlin and London

Tuscany has acquired agency collection and will create a new foundation in Florence to preserve its more than five million items

Book tells the tale of how Italian museum amassed such a vast array of important sculptures thanks to Frenchman Louis-Claude Carrand

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

Restoration will remove centuries of grime and stabilise the sculpture at the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo

Seven-metre painting offers "canvas proof" that self-taught nun ran an all-female workshop in her convent 450 years ago

Paintings by Florentine artist at Madrid institution are beautifully and sensitively displayed alongside an impressive range of works in other media

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

As Fratelli Alinari vacates its Italian headquarters, there are hopes that Tuscan government will rescue the historic collection

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

Six centuries of city’s connection to Muslim world explored in rare Uffizi and Bargello collaboration

The Belgian-born artist has devised experiment with Italian scientist Stefano Mancuso

Show in Florence aims to bring "the complexity of the Italian art world” to an international audience

In 1974, fresh after graduating from the experimental studies programme at Syracuse University’s visual and performing arts department, Bill Viola moved to Florence to work at Art/Tapes/22, one of the first video art production studios in Europe

The Palazzo Strozzi mixes Viola's videos and installations with the Old Masters that inspired them