Workers at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze complain of long hours with too few breaks and little employment protection

The work has resumed its place at the Museo di San Marco after conservation work that has brought the Italian Renaissance artist’s masterly skill with colour and form to the fore

Traditionally, checking for damage was a manual job, but a combination of diagnostic technologies used in the restoration of the Brancacci Chapel offers much greater precision

The announcement of new providers for services at leading cultural institutions has prompted an outcry from workers and opposition politicians

The private passageway built by the Medici dynasty cost €11m to restore

A chat with the curator of a new show featuring Monet's Thames views—in the very room where many were painted, plus trips to Basel and Florence for 'Matisse: Invitation to the Voyage' and 'Helen Frankenthaler: Painting without Rules'

Simone Verde cannot reduce visitor numbers, so he means to spread them out over new delights

Art critic Vittorio Sgarbi says though that the act is ‘non-erotic’

The recent research also suggests that the famous Italian landmark was part of a broader building programme

What a change in government might mean for the UK culture sector, a close look at Eike Schmidt’s unsuccessful campaign, and Willis Thomas discusses displaying his new afro pick sculpture at the world’s biggest music festival

The former director of the Uffizi, who is running for mayor of the Tuscan city, has been accused of speaking negatively about people from Italy's deprived south

The Florentine Civic Museums’ depository is part of a trend that is seeing institutions find ways of making more use of their archives

Schmidt has criticised Dario Nardella for plans to deploy security guards at shopping centres in the city, after suggestions for similar protection at the museum were rejected

The space, which was discovered in a former coal bunker accessed via a trapdoor, features never-before-seen drawings by the Renaissance master

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