A visitor has damaged a 17th-century painting at the Uffizi Galleries in Florence after stumbling back into it while posing for a photo, the museum told CNN in a statement.

The painting, which is included in the exhibition Florence and Europe: Arts of the 18th Century at the Uffizi, has since been removed for repair. The exhibition runs until 28 November but, ...

The culprit was mimicking the pose of a Renaissance-era prince in one of the paintings at Florence’s Uffizi Gallery when the unfortunate incident took place.

A tourist accidentally punctured a hole into a priceless 300-year-old painting, and the act was all caught on security footage. According to multiple reports, the incident went down at the Uffizi ...

A huge painting by Mark Rothko, thought to be worth tens of millions of dollars, has been removed from display in a Dutch museum after it was damaged by a visiting child.