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Visitors closely admire early Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli's "Spring", at the Uffizi Gallery museum, in Florence, Italy, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019. To protect the masterpieces in the Uffizi Gallery’s collection, the Florence museum’s director climbed a ladder and hurled an employee’s bicycle down at a sheet of glass specially made to keep prized pieces such as Botticelli’s “Spring” and “Birth of Venus” safe from vandals. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Visitors closely admire early Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli's "Spring", at the Uffizi Gallery museum, in Florence, Italy, Tuesday, Aug. 6, 2019. To protect the masterpieces in the Uffizi Gallery’s collection, the Florence museum’s director climbed a ladder and hurled an employee’s bicycle down at a sheet of glass specially made to keep prized pieces such as Botticelli’s “Spring” and “Birth of Venus” safe from vandals. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

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