Nightmare at the Museum. A foolish tourist in Italy sat on a chair adorned with thousands of Swarovski crystals for a photo op, crushing the precious work of art beneath his weight.

TG1 The painting, which is normally kept at Palazzo Pitti, a separate art gallery, was only temporarily in the Uffizi for an exhibition when disaster struck on Saturday, Corriere Fiorentino reported.

It took just seconds — and one ill-conceived photo-op — for a sparkling work of art to come crashing down. At the Palazzo Maffei museum in Verona, Italy, surveillance footage caught a visitor ...