Clumsy boy trips and punches hole into $1.5m painting
Yikes! A 12-year-old boy’s clumsy act has cost $1.5 million after he tripped and fell into a painting.
The boy was walking through the museum in Taipei when he accidentally tripped and fell right into the Paolo Porpora painting.
The oil painting titled ‘Flowers’ is 350 years old and is 200cm tall.
The painting was on loan in Taipei as part of the "The Face of Leonardo, Images of a Genius" exhibition, with some 50 paintings by Italian Renaissance artists on display.
In CCTV footage, you can see the boy wandering about following a guided tour when he stumbles and falls, punching a hole in the canvas painting.
Focus Taiwan reported that exhibition curator Andrea Rossi had asked for the boy’s family not to have to bear the cost of restoring the painting.
The organisers will get the insurance company to cover restoration, which will be done in Taiwan before the painting is shipped back to Italy.
The accident caused the exhibition to temporarily shut down on Monday morning, before it reopened again in the afternoon.
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