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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 ...
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 ...
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In Italy, a new museum lab studies how people see and experience art
In Florence, the newly opened Neuroaesthetics Laboratory at Museo Galileo represents a pioneering achievement as Italy’s ...
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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 ...
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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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Florence's Uffizi to clamp down on selfies after visitor damages 18th-century artwork
The director of Florence’s Uffizi Gallery has announced “strict limits” on selfie-taking tourists after an 18th-century ...
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‘Exhausted’ life models at Florence art academy threaten nude protest
Founded in 1784, Florence’s fine arts academy occupies a former 14th-century hospital and traces its roots to the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno, the prestigious body established by Cosimo de ...
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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 ...