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Florence’s Uffizi Gallery Is Cracking Down on Selfies After a Tourist Damaged an 18th Century Painting
O ne of Italy’s most famous museums is getting tougher when it comes to selfies. The Uffizi in Florence, home to masterpieces ...
Florence gallery slams selfie-taking tourists after historic painting damaged
The director of an art gallery in Florence has criticised a tourist for ripping the canvas of a historic painting while ...
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Museumgoer Posing for Photo Stumbles Into Portrait of Medici Prince, Damaging the Historic Painting
The incident at the Uffizi Galleries is the latest in a series of tourist-related accidents at museums around the world. Now, ...
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ART MATTERS IN FLORENCE.; The American Sculptors, Greenough, Crawford, and Bartholomew, and their Successors Works now in Progress. (Published 1860) - The New York Times
From Our Own Correspondent. FLORENCE, October, 1860. It seems to be the fate of some artists, as with men in every other department of human pursuit, to fall, at last, as much below their true ...
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How a Florence art-gallery curator is defending Michelangelo’s ‘David’ from parodist slings and arrows - MarketWatch
Associated Press How a Florence art-gallery curator is defending Michelangelo’s ‘David’ from parodist slings and arrows At gallerist Cecilie Hollberg’s behest, the state’s attorney ...
Florence museum says social media photos are a 'rampant' problem, following visitor stumble
Security camera footage of the incident, which was aired by Italian TV, shows a visitor to the museum stumbling backwards ...
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Florence artist paints memories. Where can you find her art?
Jane Jackson is an artist from Florence, SC. Her exhibit, "Jane Jackson: A Retrospective" is open to the public at the Doctor N. Lee Morris Gallery until Jan. 17 ...
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New Downtown Florence art exhibit explores artistic obsession
FLORENCE – "WANT MORE" — Myles Calvert and Tamara LaValla’s new Florence art exhibit — is a study in making art as much as it is a study in the art itself. On the surface, the work appears ...