Magnificent 1492 at the Uffizi Galleries

by Editorial Staff, written on 12/27/2025

Categories: Exhibitions / Topics: Renaissance – Florence – Medici

Next autumn 2026 the Uffizi Galleries will present Magnifico 1492, a major exhibition dedicated to Lorenzo the Magnificent. It aims to be an authentic and detailed reconstruction, the largest ever made, of the extraordinary Medici collection.

Next autumn 2026 the Uffizi Galleries will present Magnificent 1492a great exhibition dedicated to Lorenzo the Magnificentthe most famous figure of the Medici dynasty. The exhibition presents itself as an authentic and detailed reconstruction, the largest ever builtof the extraordinary Medici collectionas described and inventoried in 1492, upon the death of Lorenzo, when it was kept in the family palace in via Larga in Florence, the current Palazzo Medici Riccardi.

The exhibition itinerary will bring together a wide selection of paintings and sculptureswith masterpieces next to objects of various nature such as vases, gems, cameos, coins, illuminated manuscripts and geographical maps. A heterogeneous whole that reflects the multiplicity of interests, passions and curiosities that distinctively characterized the culture of the Medici family. To complete the project there will also be the recomposition of one of the most important cycles in the history of Western artwhich the Galleries will announce in the coming months.

The exhibition will be able to count on numerous and prestigious loans from Italian and international museums: in total, over one hundred works that will outline the exhibition itinerary.

Lorenzo by Piero de’ Medici (1449-1492), known to history as the Magnificentis universally recognized as the most illustrious representative of the dynasty that governed Florence and Tuscany between the fifteenth and seventeenth centuries. A skilled politician, but above all an extraordinary promoter of arts and culture, to the point of embodying the very idea of ​​patronage, he knew how to surround himself with the greatest intellectuals of his time, including Angelo Poliziano, Marsilio Ficino and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, as well as artists such as Botticelli and Michelangelo. Thanks to his action, Florence became the undisputed center of the Renaissance. As the director of the Uffizi Galleries underlined, Simone Verdethe figure of Lorenzo represents a “true watershed: his life ends where the world of modern history that we still inhabit today opens up. That is, in the year of the discovery of the Americas”.

Information about the exhibition