Visitor trips in Italian museum and tears Renaissance painting

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He visits an exhibition on the Renaissance set up in the Santa Giulia complex in Brescia but he accidentally stumbles and tears apart a canvas by Moretto when he falls. The news comes from Bresciaoggi, which reports how the work was placed at the entrance to the Devotion section. Not hanging on the wall but along the way: “the banner, which was carried in procession, is in fact painted on two sides, double-sided,” the headboard says. “On the one…

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The work “The Banner of Disciplines” has been torn in the lower right corner. It had just been restored.

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The accident at an exhibition in Brescia, the painting was not protected (ANSA)

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The work will be restored inside the Santa Giulia Museum at the end of the exhibition (starting from February 16). The damage was estimated at a few thousand euros

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Brescia, Renaissance exhibition a visitor stumbles and tears through a canvas by Alessandro Boncerca, painted between 1522 and 1524 Brescia February 08, 2025, Friday, February 7, 2025, during a visit to the Renaissance exhibition, set up in the Santa Giulia complex in Brescia, a visitor stumbles, and unintentionally rips through an oil painting on canvas by Alessandro Boncerca. The work in question is a banner painted both on the front and on th…

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"Mamma mia!" – Italians must have cried in horror when an incident straight out of an Italian comedy occurred in the Museum of Santa Julia in Brescia. A woman who was admiring Renaissance works of art suddenly lost her balance, stumbled and accidentally leaned on one of the paintings. The result? A visible hole in the canvas. Although the destruction may seem dramatic, the museum reassures us – everything can be repaired.