You know that old saying, ‘You break it, you buy it?’ Well, one tourist is about to find out how priceless Italian art is.
On Friday, July 31, an Austrian man visited the Gipsoteca Museum Antonio Canova in Possagno, Italy. He was with a group of eight other people when he broke off to get a picture with the plaster rendition of the famous Pauline Bonaparte as Venus Victrix. The man plopped down next to the statue to capture the perfect selfie. Upon standing, he realized he had broken off two of the figure’s toes. The unidentified man then glances around the room before casual strolling away.
Security cameras caught the incident on video, and a silent alarm alerted staff a sculpture had been touched. Police identified the man and tracked him down through personal information given for contact tracing purposes. The man admitted to his crime, reportedly stating it was, “a stupid move.”
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