A tourist accidentally damaged a painting at the Uffizi in Florence after he tripped while posing for a photograph.

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The artist’s nephew, Vincent Willem van Gogh (named after the artist), exchanged the two drawings for 35 packets of butter, ...

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The responsible individuals are shown fleeing the scene in what the Palazzo Maffei’s director called “any museum’s nightmare.

The man and woman wait for the guards to leave the room before posing for their photo: squatting over a chair covered in Swarovski crystals, pretending to sit. She is taking the picture; he’s posing.

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Health and illness are recurring themes in the history of art—they’ve been portrayed in a multitude of ways over the ...