He really put his foot in it.
A clumsy tourist fell through a priceless 300-year-old painting while posing for a picture.
Security footage from Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, shows the unidentified visitor posing for a photo in front of a 1712 artwork by Anton Domenico Gabbiani.
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As he tries to mimic the pose in the painting, the tourist suddenly loses balance and falls back against the canvas — tearing a hole near the bottom where the subject’s foot is.
A clumsy tourist damaged a priceless 300-year-old painting while posing for a picture. TG1
The painting, which is normally kept at Palazzo Pitti, a separate art gallery, was only temporarily in the Uffizi for an exhibition when disaster struck on Saturday, Corriere Fiorentino reported.
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