12-year-old ruined million painting – VG

Here offend the 12 year old very unfortunate boy almost straight into the expensive New painting. The result was a deep gash 12 million artwork.

The incident was captured by a surveillance camera at an art exhibition in the Taiwanese capital Taipei last Sunday.

The more than 350 years old $ 1,500,000 expensive (about 12.4 million Norwegian kroner) painting that got the fist-sized rift, painted by the Italian artist Paolo Porpora.

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The hand that he beats holes in the canvas with, keeps the entire scene caught in something that looks like a soda cup. After stumbling episode looks a little boy småforvirret around them. Then comes the more flowing to.

– The child fell and pressed his fist against the painting. This resulted in a fist big chaps, says an employee of TST Art of Discovery told AFP.

They organized the exhibition “The face of Leonardo.”

– Does not require million compensation

According to news agency shall they already have decided not to claim compensation for the damage of the boy’s family. The painting should have already been restored and be back in place on the premises.

However, it is not the first time people have stumbled, fell or turned to very expensive museum pieces.

A man who stumbled into their shoelaces ended up crushing all three very exclusive 300 year old Chinese vases in a museum in Cambridge, England in 2006.

The American casino king Steve Wynn, also struck accidentally elbow through a Picasso painting that he had just sold for $ 139 million (1.15 billion Norwegian kroner.)