Yelisaveta Morozova

Tourist in Firenze destroys Renaissance painting at Uffizi museum while taking a selfie. A visitor to the Uffizi Gallery in Florence has damaged a priceless oil painting while trying to take a selfie, the museum says. The unidentified tourist leaned against the Baroque artwork, Portrait of Ferdinando de’ Medici, Grand Prince of Tuscany, by Anton Domenico Gabbiani, to take a photo – until the canvas gave way. Italian broadcaster TG1 posted a video on X, which shows the painting’s canvas tearing under the man’s weight.