Misstep causes section of Uffizi ceiling to drop
theflorentine.netWhen a workman accidentally stepped in the wrong place at the wrong time, a chunk of sixteenth-century fresco fell to the floor and on top of a statue beneath it.
The 30-centimetre piece of fresco, part of a section of ceiling in the long main corridor within the gallery, became detached due to work being done on the roof above. The misstep took place ‘during the normal maintenance of the roof of the First Corridor of the Uffizi Gallery,’ explained head of the Polo Museale Fiorentino, Cristina Acidini, causing plaster to fall.

