Posted on 03/18/2014 11:07:16 AM PDT by rawhide
There are a few basic rules in museums. The first: don’t touch the art. The second: don’t take selfies while touching the art.
At a museum in Milan, Italy, a student reportedly broke that second rule: he climbed on a statue dating back to the early 19th century to take a selfie and caused the statue’s left leg to fall off. The discovery was made on Tuesday morning by the staff of the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera, one of Italy’s most renowned academic institutions, and it was apparently also recorded by security cameras.
The statue depicts the “Drunken Satyr,” an ancient Greek sculpture of the Hellenistic era showing a human-like figure with animal features drunkenly sleeping. Fortunately, the statue is a copy located in the academy’s hallway leading to a room full of more valuable works of the most famous sculptors of the era, including Antonio Canova, Italian newspapers reported.
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The goblin topplers took a plea in abeyance, a year probation, with fine and restitution yet to be determined. This drops the felony if they live up to the terms.
See #42.
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Good call. I also wouldn't want him doing janitorial work in a museum unless he was in a section with nothing of value. This is the type of moron who would destroy something else negligently if they gave him a job that required him to go near the exhibits.
Let’s see...a guy who’s taking a picture of himself sitting in a (naked) male statue’s lap...he’s already got the bad judgment thing working against him. Not much you can do except put his name on an international registry keeping him away from antiquities.
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Apparently the museum doesn’t care about yutes tagging their artwork.
So what’s the big deal about a broken leg?
by the looks of that museum and statuary; the US is not the only western civilization falling apart.
that cracked me up.
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