Taiwan Boy Accidentally Damages US$1.5 Million Italian Painting

A 12 year old Taiwan boy had accidentally damaged a costliest paint on Sunday. The painting is priced about $1.5 million and it is centuries old Italian oil painting. The boy has fell onto the painting piece during an exhibition in Taiwan. The painting had been damaged with a hole in the work of art. Thus the officials of the museum Face of Leonardo had released a video how did the boy fell on the painting.

The painting was painted in 1600s and it was entitled ‘Flowers’ by Italian artist Paolo Porpora. This painting is one of the collections of 55 artworks on show in the country. The boy in the video had been with a drink in the hands and He then looks around helplessly before walking away. “The child fell and pressed onto the painting, putting a fist-sized tear in it,” an employee at TST Art of Discovery, which organised The Face of Leonardo exhibition in Taipei, said.

The boy looked up at the Paolo Porpora oil on canvas painting of flowers, shown later to have a fist-sized gash at the bottom, and freezes, looking around at other people in the room. Thus the organisers have decided not to seek damages from the boy’s family, according to China News Agency.

The organisers will not ask the boy’s family to pay for the restoration costs, because it said the exhibition organiser, Sun Chi-hsuan, said the boy was very nervous but should not be blamed and the painting, part of a private collection, was insured. These paintings are the gathered from the finest art collection in the world.

“All 55 paintings in the venue are authentic pieces and they are very rare and precious,” a post on the exhibition’s Facebook page said. “Once these works are damaged, they are permanently damaged.” Porpora was a leading still life artist who produced paintings often on fruits and flowers. 17th-century Italian painter, Mario Nuzzi, valued only at about €30,000 (£22,000).

“There is nothing to respond to. Of course they are different,” he was quoted in Focus Taiwan news as saying. The Web Gallery of Art, a database of European fine art, said Flowers was the only Porpora work that is signed. A self-portrait by Leonardo Da Vinci worth 200 million euros ($231 million) is also being exhibited at the show, according to the exhibition’s website.

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