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Italy: Tourist posing for photo breaks 19th Century Antonio Canova sculpture
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Police in Italy have identified a 50-year-old Austrian man who broke three toes off a statue at a museum as he posed for a photo with the artwork. Italy Tourist posing for photo breaks 19th Century Antonio Canova sculpture
A tourist has accidentally broken the toes of a historic artwork in a museum in Italy, while posing for a photograph.
Police in Italy have identified a 50-year-old Austrian man who broke three toes off a statue at a museum as he posed for a photo with the artwork.
The 200-year-old plaster cast model of Antonio Canova's statue of Paolina Bonaparte was damaged in the incident on July 31 at the Gipsoteca Museum in Possagno, northern Italy, Treviso Carabinieri, the local law enforcement agency, told.
The man, whose name has not yet been released, was caught on a surveillance camera jumping up onto the statue's base to get a picture when the maneuver inadvertently snapped its toes.
The damaged statue is the original plaster cast model from which Canova carved a marble statue that is housed in the Borghese Gallery in Rome.
Canova was a revered sculptor who lived from 1757-1822 and was famous for his marble statues.
The plaster model by Italian sculptor Antonio Canova is on display at the Gypsotheca Antonio Canova museum in northern Italy.
The marble version of the artwork is housed in the Galleria Borghese in Rome.
