this Sunday in Taipei 12-year-old boy accidentally stabbed the hand painting of the XVII century. Still life "Flowers" by Italian artist Paolo Porpora (Paolo Porpora) was exhibited at the exhibition "Leonardo: the genius Images", held in the Park for creativity "Huashan 1914". Surveillance cameras recorded the incident. The boy, who was walking in a group and listening to the tour guide, suddenly lost balance and began to fall on the rope fence and to stay on his feet, tried to lean on a picture. When it pierced the hand in the picture is a hole about the size of a fist. Based on the application, one of the organizers of the exhibition, the damaged blade height of about 200 cm dates back to around 1660 mi years and is more expensive than 1.5 million dollarov@

exhibition Curator Andrea Rossi (Andrea Rossi) was shocked by the news about the incident at the exhibition. He's going to discuss with local restorer restoration of paintings "Flowers" in Taiwan before sending it back in Italia@

media reported that the boy had visited the exhibition together with his mother and possibly not very well oriented in space, because it was focused on the tour. After the incident, the culprit was very worried, but the boy and his family got lucky: the organizers decided not to ask them for compensation for an unintentional act. As stated by the curator Rossi, the costs of restoration and compensation to the owner of a cloth should take the insurance companie@

for the First time in a temporary exhibition in Taiwan valuable painting was so badly damaged. This is very sad, because the organisers were surrounded by all of the canvas fence at a distance of 80 cm, so none of the visitors came to the pictures too close. The exhibition "Leonardo: the genius" features more than 50 original works by famous artists from the era of the Italian Renaissance to the twentieth weka@

Material was prepared by Maria Onuchin, AI

Источники: focustaiwan.tw, artinvestment.ru