Florence gallery slams selfie-taking tourists after historic painting damaged - A hole was ripped in the bottom corner of the ...

The problem of visitors who come to museums to make memes or take selfies for social media is rampant,” the museum’s director ...

A visitor has damaged a 17th-century painting at the Uffizi Galleries in Florence after stumbling back into it while posing ...

A tourist at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence accidentally damaged an 18th-century portrait while attempting to take a selfie on Saturday (June 21). The painting, a 1712 portrait of Ferdinando de' ...

The BBC reporter had stumbled on a golden horde of paintings from Florence’s famed Uffizi Gallery ... semi-deserted mansion to obtain a better view of the battle. As we entered the hall ...

A large-scale painting of the Last Supper by the female Renaissance artist Plautilla Nelli has been hung on permanent display in Florence. The work’s powerful subject matter and expertise ...

These works, and others, are now on view to the public as part of ... one of the two conservators tasked with restoring the painting, in The Innocents of Florence. “It’s like the poster, ...

FLORENCE, Italy — Four years ago, a Florentine restorer happened upon a painting fragment peeking ... where the Fiat had been parked, hidden from view near the gallery. The detonation was ...

“In Italy, and in Florence in particular, there are so many works of art that many of them remain in storage, because of a lack of exhibition space, depriving people of the chance to view ...

While Florence is often positioned as the center of the Renaissance by art historians, Siena was the site of a phenomenal artistic innovation and activity 1300-1350. Others think that Siena ushered in ...

It is also possible for the painting to return to Florence for a little while in September 2025. The Ashmolean is considering the request for it to go on loan for the Fra Angelico exhibition until ...