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Botticelli's Spring (above), on display at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, is featured in a TikTok video accompanied by singer-songwriter Todrick Hall's Nails, Hair, Hips, Heels. It is one of the options the museum is exploring to update its image.
PHOTO: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
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LONDON • Last month, the Uffizi Gallery in Florence - long a bastion of tradition - posted a video to its TikTok account featuring Botticelli's Spring.
The painting depicts Venus and other mythological figures, and has been gawked at by tourists and studied by academics for centuries.
