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Michelangelo’s David with Rifle advertisement was taken out of Circulation last march. The company said in a statement to ABC News that the ad had been taken out of circulation when a new owner bought ArmaLite.
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Until May 25, 2014, 36 major works from the Dutch Golden Age of the seventeenth century are exhibited at the Palazzo Fava in Bologna, 35 minutes by train from Florence, Italy. The highest attention is paid to the masterpiece by Jan Vermeer Girl with a Pearl Earring. More than 3,000 people a day and more than 4,000 during the weekends visit the exhibit in Bologna.
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Fabio Chiantini, Florentine graphic, is the winner of the International contest launched in July to create a new brand of Florence.
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Italy’s Firenze Convention Bureau has won 17 new international conferences to take place during the next four years.
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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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Fiorentina travel to Turin looking for a spark against the hated bianconeri, but Juventus won. The Turin’s team broke the deadlock when Asamoah cut in from the left and carved out space between four Fiorentina defenders before unleashing a stunning effort which took a slight deflection before going in off the inside of the far post.
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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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Olio Capitale 2014 confirms the key international event for quality oil, demonstrated by the presence of the Ambassador of Japan Masaharu Kohno and Curtis Cord the director of the American publication Olive Oil Times. The stand of the Chamber of Commerce of Florence was one of the most visited during the first day.
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Argentina’s Corporacion America has launched takeover bids for the companies that manage Italy’s Florence and Pisa airports. On Feb. 27 it acquired a 33.4 percent stake in ADF, the company that manages the Florence airport, for 40 million euros.
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MTV Awards 2014 will be back to Florence. The new edition of the Italian MTV show will no longer be at Piazzale Michelangelo but inside the Cascine Park.
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