Italian police track down hot-footed statue toe snapper

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Italian police track down hot-footed statue toe snapper
Three toes were damaged on the right foot of a plaster statue.



ROME (AFP).- Police hunting for a mystery vandal who broke the toes off an Italian statue have identified an Austrian tourist who fled after lying on it to snap that perfect photograph.

Three toes were damaged on the right foot of a plaster statue of a reclining Pauline Bonaparte, by Italian neoclassical sculptor Antonio Canova, at the Gypsotheca Museum in Possagno, northern Italy, police said in a statement sent to AFP Wednesday.

The plaster cast was the original for a final marble version -- which portrays the sister of French Emperor Napoleon as Venus -- now housed in Rome's Galleria Borghese.

Apparently hoping to imitate the pose captured in the plaster model, which was made in 1804, the tourist sprawled on top of it while his wife took a picture.

In video surveillance footage, he can then be seen standing up, spotting the damage, and hesitating, before quickly walking away.




Police said they had been able to track down the couple through their online ticket reservation.

Contacted by telephone, the man's wife broke down into tears and confessed that her husband was responsible, the statement said.

The 50-year-old man sent an email to the police shortly afterwards to apologise. He has offered to pay for the repair to the statue, according to several Italian media reports.

The museum houses the original plaster cast models of Canova, Italy's most famous 18th century sculptor, who died in 1822.


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