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300-year-old painting destroyed after tourist tried to take a selfie with it
CCTV video footage from Italy ’s Uffizi Gallery in Florence on June 21 showed the unnamed tourist walking up to the 1712 ...
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Art: The Flowers of Florence - TIME
More specific and even better news followed. The BBC reporter had stumbled on a golden horde of paintings from Florence’s famed Uffizi Gallery, including works by Cimabue, Giotto, Masaccio ...
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Searching for Leonardo da Vinci's Gay Florence
The true, queer history of Florence is largely forgotten. Novelist Phil Melanson uncovers the gay Renaissance past of the ...
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Florence’s new open storage facility is bringing long-hidden art into public view - undefined - The Art Newspaper
On a rainy Saturday afternoon in Florence, The Art Newspaper joined one of the first public tours of Florence’s new storage facility, organised by the cultural association Mus.e.
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Florence’s Answer to Mafia Violence: A Painting’s Loving Restoration
FLORENCE, Italy — Four years ago, a Florentine restorer happened upon a painting fragment peeking out of an envelope stored in a depository at the city’s famed museum, the Uffizi Gallery. It ...
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Florence to Oxford: The journey of a renaissance painting - BBC
Ashmolean director Dr Xa Sturgis described the painting as "both very calm, but also very charged" Museum staff have shared the history of a rare Italian renaissance painting they managed to save ...