The Oyster and the Pearl

A visitor photographs Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. Photo: Vincenzo Pinto/AFP/Getty Images.

Doni Tondo

Visitors contemplate Michelangelo’s Doni Tondo, also known as Holy Family with Young St John the Baptist, at the reopening of the Uffizi galleries in Florence, Italy after months of pandemic-induced closure. Photo: Vincenzo Pinto/AFP/Getty Images.

The Scream

Florence, Italy: A woman cleans the glass display of Caravaggio’s Medusa. The artwork is exhibited as part of new rooms dedicated to the Italian painter at the Uffizi Gallery. Photo: Maurizio Degl’Innocenti/EPA.