Friends of the Uffizi Gallery - Completed Restorations

These restorations have been completed through the efforts of Friends of the Uffizi Gallery and by the generosity of art lovers like you. Please click to enlarge.
Hadrian Hadrian Vestibule Restoration. View with: Statue of Hadrian, Italian marble, height m. 2.26; Sarcophagus with Myth of Phaeton, Greek marble, length m. 2.20, height m. 0.62. *Read more...*	Bacchus Bacchus An ancient torso of a satyr transformed by a sculptor of the 16th century - believed to be Sansovino - into a particularly vivid and joyous representation of Bacchus. *Read more...*	Unknown Portrait Bust Unknown Portrait Bust I Century A.D., black basalt. The choice of black basalt, supposedly to copy a bronze model, and a replica made later in time, support the speculation of its being the portrait of a known personage. *Read more...*	Ognissanti Polyptych Ognissanti Polyptych By Giovanni da Milano Florence, circa 1346 - 1369. Painted for the high altar of the church of Ognissanti around 1360 or immediately afterwards. Tempera on wood, cm 132 x 39 each panel; cm 49 x 39 each scene. *Read more...*	Wild Boar Wild Boar Roman Art, 1 Century A.D., Greek marble, height cm. 95, width cm. 129. *Read more...*
Portrait of Young Giovan Carlo de’ Medici By Justus Sustermans (Anversa 1597- Firenze 1681). Portrait of the young Giovan Carlo de' Medici (1611-1663) as a Knight of Malta, oil on canvas, cm. 175 x 117. From the "Serie Aulica” of over 40 Medicean portraits. This portrait belongs to the series painted starting from 1622 by Sustermans, the Flemish Medici court painter, who made individual portraits of the children of Cosimo II. Giovan Carlo’s portrait used to be in the Villa of Poggio Imperiale. The bright red costume is a departure from the rules for mourning wear after his father’s recent death (1621); on the table are the symbols of his future power, a plumed helmet and a book on fortress architecture. Giovan Carlo de’ Medici	Demeter aka Juno The sculpture, about 2 meters high, in the west corridor, mistakenly identified as the Goddess Giunone in the inventory from the 18th century, portrays an iconographic type used for images of Demeter. *Read more...* Demeter aka Juno	Farnese Hercules Roman Art, I Century A.D., Greek marble, height cm. 151. *Read more...* Farnese Hercules	Laocoon Laocoon Laocoon Marble group by Baccio Bandinelli (Firenze 1493 – 1560), Carrara marble, height cm. 213, base cm. 120. "It is difficult to imagine how a Humanist could envision an ancient sculpture only through the descriptions handed down by Pliny." Antonio Natali - Director of the Uffizi Gallery. *Read more...*	Pan and Daphnis Marble group II-III Century A.D. Roman-age replica of a II Century B.C. sculpture by Heliodorus of Rhodes. Parian marble. Height 140 cm. *Read more...* Pan and Daphnis
Pilasters - Suits of Armour Pilasters with Suits of Armour Vestibule Restoration. Italian Marble, height m. 3.20, width m 0.32. *Read more...*	Sarcophagus with Apollo and Muses Vestibule Restoration. Greek marble, length m. 1.84, height m 0.40. *Read more...* Apollo & Muses	Sarcophagus with Triumph of Dionysus Vestibule Restoration. Greek marble, length m. 1.98, height m 0.50. *Read more...* Triumph of Dionysus	Portrait Bust of Commodus Italian marble bust, height cm. 79. *Read more...* Portrait Bust of Commodus	Portrait of Young Francesco de’ Medici By Justus Sustermans (Anversa 1597- Firenze 1681). Portrait of Francesco de' Medici (1594- 1614) at seven with a dog, oil on canvas, cm. 175 x 119. From the "Aulic Series" of over 40 Medicean portraits. This portrait belongs to the series painted starting from 1622 by Sustermans, the Flemish Medici court painter, who made individual portraits of the children of Cosimo II. Francesco is portrayed, in dark tones, with his rapier, alluding to his future military career, short and undistinguished for his premature death. Francesco de’ Medici
	Camaldoli Altarpiece By Filippo Lippi, Florence, circa 1406 – 1469. Adoration of the Child with the Trinity and the young Saint John the Baptist and Saint Romualdo. Circa 1463 Wood, cm 140 x 130. *Read more...* Camaldoli Altarpiece	Peter Leopold Bust Vestibule Restoration. By Francesco Carradori. Height 83 cm. *Read more...* Peter Leopold Bust	Sarcophagus with Myth of Phaedra and Hippolytus Vestibule Restoration. View with: Pilasters; Statue of Apollo, Greek marble, height m. 1.90; Sarcophagus with Myth of Phaedra and Hippolytus, Greek marble, length m. 2.11, height m. 0.55. *Read more...* Phaedra with Hippolytus