Student Breaks 19th Century Greco-Roman Statue While Taking a Selfie

time.com ^ | 3-18-14 | Francesca Trianni

[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.

[V_TWIN]

You Used Up All the Glue on Purpose!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJMePGBYNqA

[MplsSteve]

LOL!

[LumberJack53213]

Selfie sounds like self abuse to me.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

It was not priceless. It was a reproduction from the 19th century so it was worth a chuck o’ change though.

[mikrofon]

I wonder what the statue of limitations is for this crime ??

[Salamander]

*snort!*

;D

[Tijeras_Slim]

NOTAFINGA!

[V_TWIN]

“it was worth a chuck o’ change though.”

But not so expensive they didn’t rope it off or mind it getting tagged with grafitti though....thats kinda weird.

[Cyber Liberty]

Two observations:

1) I don't think the graffiti is contemporary with the statue, and

2) FTA: Fortunately, the statue is a copy... meaning the fool didn't break the statue as the headline states.

[hotshu]

The guys who did that will be sentenced today.

[TEARUNNER14]

Selfie sounds like self abuse to me.

Put him in a corner facing the statue, that will teach him.

[Hot Tabasco]

1) I don't think the graffiti is contemporary with the statue

That wasn't graffiti, it was Greek for "This side UP"

[Cyber Liberty]

I thought it was Roman for “No Selfies, Fool!”

[BenLurkin]

But the best parts are still attached to her.

[Charles Martel]

That wasn't graffiti, it was Greek for "This side UP"

Naah, it spelled out "FRAGILE".

Must be Italian.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

It’s Europe. They are a bit different. They might view the graffiti as “Street Art”.

[wonkowasright]

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....

Per the article.

[SunkenCiv]

The silly SOB should be in front of a judge, and as prison sentence abatement, have to do janitorial work at the museum for the next five freakin' years. What an asshole.

The headline's a little, uh, confused -- this is a Hellenistic Greek era statue, over 2000 years old, perhaps the editor meant 19 century old instead of the stupid foolish idiotic and inaccurate '19th Century'. Thanks rawhide.

[SunkenCiv]

Oh, sorry, it’s a 19th c *copy* of the original, which is elsewhere. Give the little bastard 90 days instead.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

I thought it was “you break it, you fix it.” At least that’s what John f’n Kerry told us was Pottery Barn’s motto when he ran for President and he’s never wrong.