They set fire to a copy of Michelangelo’s David, causing damage of 15 thousand euros

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They set fire to a copy of Michelangelo’s David, causing damage of 15 thousand euros A subject has set fire to a black cloth that covered the copy of the David by Michelangelo in Florence for a few days, in solidarity with Ukraineand has caused damage of 15,000 euros (just over 300,000 Mexican pesos) to the work, the city council reported today.

The fire took place last night, when the Czech citizen Vaclav Pisvejcvknown for sabotaging other works and even assaulting the Serbian artist in 2018 Marina Abramovicsneaked into the sculpture and set fire to a black cloth that covered it in solidarity with Ukraine.

The subject, according to the media, was identified by the Florentine police and denounced for the crime of arson.

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The technicians of the city council of the Tuscan capital today supervised the sculpture, a 1910 copy of Michelangelo’s masterpiece located in the Plaza de la Signoria, and placed the damage at 15 thousand euros since it has blackened the upper part of the sculpture.

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This morning they have cleaned the most superficial part caused by the smoke but a dark patina has remained that will have to be removed with special solvents and the work will last a week.

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The David, a copy of the original, which is in the Gallery of the Academy, was going to be restored soon along with the rest of the works exhibited in the arcades of the square.

Florence, like many other European cities, will host a demonstration this followingnoon in Santa Croce square to express its solidarity with Ukraine following the war it is experiencing due to the Russian invasion.

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