Runner-up: Observer/Anthony Burgess prize 2024 – Anna McGee reviews Florence’s new museums depository

A runner-up in our annual arts writing prize, Anna McGee celebrates the freeing from storage of thousands of previously unseen artworks, now on display at the city’s Santa Maria Novella museumRead the winning entry for the 2024 Observer/Burgess prizeAnna McGee is a PhD student of Florentine Renaissance art and architecture. She most recently published her work in the London Review of BooksFlorence has too much art. It’s heaving with it. Some is on display in the city’s 30-odd p