Footage released by the organisers of the Face of Leonardo: Images of a Genius exhibition in Taipei shows the boy – in shorts, trainers, a blue Puma T-shirt and holding a drink – walk past the still life, catching his foot and stumbling over.
He then looked up at the Paolo Porpora oil on canvas painting of flowers, shown later to have a fist-sized gash at the bottom, and froze, looking around at other people in the room.
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The organisers will not ask the boy’s family to pay for the restoration costs. It said the exhibition organiser, Sun Chi-hsuan, said the boy was very nervous but should not be blamed and the painting, part of a private collection, was insured.
2 comments:
I feel bad for this kid. He'll probably be replaying this mistake for the rest of his life.
Why were drinks allowed in the area?
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