A 50-year-old Austrian man who broke three toes off a 200-year-old plaster cast model of Antonio Canova's statue of Paolina Bonaparte in the Gipsoteca Museum in Possagno, northern Italy, on July 31 has been identified, Treviso Carabinieri have confirmed to CNN. The man, whose name has not yet been released, was caught on surveillance tape jumping up onto the reclining statue's base to get a vacation pic when the maneuver inadvertently snapped the toes. The damaged statue is the original plaster cast model from which the original marble statue that is housed in the Borghese Gallery in Rome was carved by Canova.
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Surveillance footage from a museum in Italy shows a tourist sitting on a 200-year old statue and breaking three of its toes off.
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A 50-year-old Austrian man who broke three toes off a 200-year-old plaster cast model of Antonio Canova's statue of Paolina Bonaparte in the Gipsoteca Museum in Possagno, northern Italy, on July 31 has been identified, Treviso Carabinieri have confirmed to CNN. The man, whose name has not yet been released, was caught on surveillance tape jumping up onto the reclining statue's base to get a vacation pic when the maneuver inadvertently snapped the toes. The damaged statue is the original plaster cast model from which the original marble statue that is housed in the Borghese Gallery in Rome was carved by Canova.
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