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Tourist Fesses Up To Breaking Toes Off Canova Sculpture

VISUAL Posted: August 7, 2020 12:34 pm

The tourist, on a trip to celebrate his 50th birthday, was visiting an art museum in northern Italy last week when he posed with the statue of a reclining Pauline Bonaparte. Her husband had commissioned the seminude sculpture by the Italian artist Antonio Canova in the early 19th century. It is known as Pauline Bonaparte as Venus Victrix. What happened next might be attributable to the reckless exuberance that big birthdays often bring. – The New York Times

VISUAL Published: 08.07.20

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