With the muscular form of Michelangelo's David setting hearts a-flutter outside the Galleria dell'Accademia, and comely Renaissance maidens in every gallery, it's the artistic heart of Florence that plucks at the heart strings.

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It will be shown alongside Titian's two other known versions of John the Baptist, loaned from the Accademia gallery in Venice and the monastery at the former royal palace of El Escorial, near Madrid.

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