The city of Florence, Italy, blasts Michelangelo’s David holding rifle image. The comments come after the the image by Illinois-based ArmaLite, which uses Michelangelo’s statue to promote the rifle with the tagline “A work of art”.
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Author: Marco Bastiani
Marco Bastiani is an Italian journalist based in Florence. He is the founder of Florence Daily News, launched in 2011, and has been working in journalism since 1998. Formerly political editor at Il Giornale della Toscana, he later took on senior communication roles in both public and private institutions. A board member of the Tuscan Foundation of the Order of Journalists and a member of ASET, the Tuscan association of food, wine and agri-food journalists, he loves the sea and Greece, and has two children.
Bill Viola visited his Self-Portrait at the Vasari Corridor
The American artist Bill Viola yesterday visited the Vasari Corridor inside Florence’s Uffizi Gallery and admired his self-portrait Submerged. In its Uffizi section the Vasari Corridor is used to exhibit the museum’s famous collection of self-portraits.
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