The director of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence has promised a crackdown on selfies after a tourist damaged an 18th-century paintin...

Published on June 23, 2025
The director of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence has promised a crackdown on selfies after a tourist damaged an 18th-century painting while posing in front of it for a photograph. The visitor tore a hole in the bottom corner of the canvas, a ­portrait of Ferdinando de’ Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany, painted in 1712, by Anton Domenico Gabbiani. The man was apparently trying to assume the same pose as the subject of the painting but stepped backwards and lost his balance. He leant against the canvas which was left with a tear at the level of the prince’s right boot. https://lnkd.in/gG5zpvqd
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