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WATCH: Boy trips in museum and punches hole through million-dollar painting

$1 Million paint with a hole            Paolo Porpora’s painting Flowers  Photograph​- Paolo Porpora-public domain

 

 

A 12-year-old Taiwanese boy  on Sunday lived out a nightmare at the weekend when he slipped at a museum in Taipei and withhold his fall with a 350-year-old Paolo Porpora, punched a hole in the piece of art valued at $1.5 million.

In the tape released by the organisers of the Face of Leonardo: Images of a Genius exhibition, shows the boy in shorts, trainers and holding a can of soft drink, tripping over a rope barrier post while walking near the 17th century oil painting “Flowers.”. e, catching his foot and stumbling over.

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As he slipped toward the painting, he extended his arms to keep from slumping, making contact with the painting and leaving a hole the size of a fist.

The boy may have gotten lucky, however, because the organizers will not ask the boy’s family to pay for the cost of restoring the damaged painting, .

 

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