Dinner in front of Michelangelo's David? Fake news: we heard from the Academy and the photographer

A photo has circulated in recent hours on social networks showing a table set in front of Michelangelo’s David at the Accademia Gallery in Florence. According to social users, it would have been a wedding held these days in the Florentine museum: therefore, the ire of many who commented is obvious. To find out more, we called the press office of the Accademia Gallery, which denied the news: it would therefore be fake news.

The photo is authentic, the press office explained to us, but it is an image related to an event in 2013: a fundraiser organized by Friends of Florence for restoration initiatives. In fact, director Cecilie Hollberg has ordered a ban on events in the exhibition areas, where paintings and paintings are located. Receptions, according to the new regulations, can only be set up in the bookshop area or in the nearby courtyard, and in the case of dinners, no hot food can be brought into the Accademia, nor are seated dinners allowed.

The same also applies to another photo circulated along with the one reproduced in this article: in this case the author, Daniele Vertelli, whom we reached by phone and who provided us with information identical to that of the Accademia Gallery, said that it was a private event related to a Friends of Florence fundraiser.

Dinner in front of Michelangelo's David? Fake news: we heard from the Academy and the photographer

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