The recently naturalized Eike Schmidt is headed from Florence to Naples, as the Italian government announced a slew of new institutional appointments—all of whom have Italian passports. Italy’s ...

Eike Schmidt, art historian from Germany, former museum director of the Uffizi Gallery (2015-2023) and center-right candidate for the office of mayor in Florence, gestures next to an election poster ...

Eike Schmidt, the former director of the Uffizi Galleries, is facing an uphill battle in his bid to become mayor, but he’s counting on his cultural clout to win. By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from ...

The German-born ex-director of the Uffizi Galleries, Eike Schmidt, is still in the fight to become Florence’s next mayor after a first round of voting over the weekend put him firmly in second place ...

It is barely ten o’clock on a Saturday morning, yet Eike Schmidt has drawn nearly a hundred attentive listeners to a pizzeria in Le Cascine, a large park on the edge of Florence. But then the ...

The museum’s former director, Eike Schmidt, is toying — somewhat mischievously — with entering the race to become Florence’s mayor. By Elisabetta Povoledo Elisabetta Povoledo reported from Rome and ...