In Italy, a tourist damaged a 300-year-old famous painting while taking a photo. According to local media Corriere Fiorentino ...

25 Best Things to Do in Florence. From Renaissance art to gelato shops, ... Some of the more famous sites within the district are Pitti Palace, Boboli Gardens, and the Bardini Garden.

Discover the best things to do in Florence, Italy, from visiting world-renowned art galleries to admiring Renaissance architecture, including the iconic Duomo.

The director of an art gallery in Florence has criticised a tourist for ripping the canvas of a historic painting while ...

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 ...

Perhaps the most famous of all Florence’s paintings—Botticelli’s Birth of Venus—was reported missing. The Germans had carried it off. said a cable last week, “in payment for winter coal.” ...