Exhibitions in Florence

Uffizi Gallery

New arrangement at the Costume and Fashion Museum showcasing 40 dresses from the 20th century, from the 1920s Charleston through the 1980s.

Uffizi Gallery

Sixteen masterpieces of royal furniture spanning three centuries (17th–19th) and three dynasties — the Medici, Lorraine, and Savoy — displayed in the Palatine Gallery's Niche Room at Pitti Palace. Highlights include Giovanni Socci's legendary mechanical writing desk, Sèvres vases, and a stipo offering a miniature replica of the Pitti Palace itself.

Palazzo Pitti

The first exhibition dedicated to Italian couturier Ferdinando Sarmi, who dressed Hollywood legends including Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, and First Lady Pat Nixon. Features iconic garments from the Sarmi Foundation alongside period accessories evoking the glamour of 1950s–60s New York.

Uffizi Gallery

Retrospective at the Museum of Costume and Fashion dedicated to Florentine couturier Ferdinando Sarmi, who dressed Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe, and Marlene Dietrich. Features iconic garments alongside archival materials evoking the glamour of 1950s–60s New York high society, shown in the Ballroom and adjoining rooms at Palazzo Pitti.

Palazzo Pitti

Sixteen furniture masterpieces spanning three centuries and three dynasties — Medici, Lorraine, and Savoy — newly arranged in the Palatine Gallery's Niche Room. Pieces range from 17th-century intarsia armchairs and Sèvres porcelain vases to Giovanni Socci's mechanical writing desk and a stipo cabinet that recreates the facade of Palazzo Pitti itself.

Palazzo Pitti

Reopened after a four-year renovation, the Museum of Costume and Fashion's new galleries trace haute couture from the 1920s Charleston era through the 1980s across nine rooms, with pieces by Schiaparelli, Yves Saint Laurent, Pierre Cardin, and Roberto Capucci shown alongside 20th-century paintings.

Palazzo Medici Riccardi

"Beyond the Renaissance. Between Dürer and Parmigianino" explores Georg Baselitz's collection of European Mannerist prints alongside works from the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, curated by Daniel Blau, Sergio Risaliti and Valentina Zucchi, with four Baselitz sculptures also on display.

Palazzo Strozzi · Free

Joanna Piotrowska's first solo show at an Italian institution: new photography and collage on intimacy, control and shelter, made for the Project Space.

Palazzo Strozzi

Over eighty fragmentary sculptures from Ancient Egypt to Michelangelo, Rodin and Louise Bourgeois, organized with the National Gallery of Art, Washington.

Palazzo Medici Riccardi

Four large Nasini canvases on the life of Saint Francis, commissioned by Cosimo III in 1695 after his Assisi pilgrimage, return to Florence for the first time in over three centuries.

Museo Novecento

Her first Florence show: 20 paintings of quiet domestic interiors, set against works by Martini, Casorati, Morandi and de Pisis from the Della Ragione collection.

Uffizi Gallery

A major exhibition reconstructing Lorenzo de' Medici's extraordinary art collection as inventoried in 1492 at his death, at the Treasury of the Grand Dukes. Over 100 loans from Italian and international museums, including paintings, sculptures, gems, cameos, coins, and illuminated manuscripts.

Museo Novecento

About 25 paintings by Victor Man on motherhood, portraiture, still life and the female figure, plus five works from the Luminary Petals on a Wet Black Bough series.

Galleria dell'Accademia

Two restored early 15th-century panels by the Maestro del 1416, shown side by side on the first floor with a video on the restoration.

Museo degli Innocenti

First exhibition on Artemisia Gentileschi's Florentine years, when she joined the Academy of Arts and worked for the Medici; includes two Caravaggios.