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Post by Babu Baboon on Aug 25, 2015 20:24:48 GMT -6
A 12-year-old boy accidentally punched a hole through a $1.5 million centuries-old Italian oil painting when he tripped and fell into the piece during an exhibition in Taiwan.
The painting, entitled "Flowers" by Italian artist Paolo Porpora, dates back to the 1600s and is part of a collection of 55 artworks on show in Taiwan's capital.
Video footage released by the organisers shows the boy on Sunday trip over a platform in front of the artwork and then brace himself against the painting to break his fall. He then looks around helplessly before walking away.
"The child fell and pressed onto the painting, putting a fist-sized tear in it," an employee at TST Art of Discovery, which organised The Face of Leonardo exhibition in Taipei, told AFP.
The organisers have decided not to seek damages from the boy's family, according to Central News Agency.
The painting was restored on site Monday and is now back on exhibition.
A self-portrait by Leonardo Da Vinci worth 200 million euros ($231 million) is also being exhibited at the show, according to the exhibition's website.
Other museum accidents include when a British man in 2006 smashed a set of 300-year-old Chinese vases after tripping over his shoelaces at a museum in Cambridge.
Las Vegas gaming tycoon Steve Wynn that same year accidentally poked his elbow through the canvas of a Picasso painting he had just sold for $139m
I think if my kid did that, I'd just drop dead on the spot.
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Post by lothar on Aug 25, 2015 21:58:27 GMT -6
I would say Not my kid! Never saw him before!
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Post by Thai Ladyboy on Aug 27, 2015 5:44:55 GMT -6
I hope the accident is covered by insurance.
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Post by Babu Baboon on Aug 27, 2015 5:53:53 GMT -6
I'm sure it was, but you know the parents had to have crapped their pants when it happened.
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Post by mh on Aug 27, 2015 10:47:22 GMT -6
that reminds me. I was watching 'last man on earth' on netfliks last nite and the guy's wife, that nutty woman from flight of the concords' had drawn a doggie on the monet. he got all pissed and told her to quit painting on his masters, so she stepped in front of the van gogh before he noticed she had painted a duckie on it
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