"This time, the victim was a historic plaster model by the Italian artist Antonio Canova (1757"1822). On July 31, a misguided Austrian tourist snapped the toes off the Neoclassical sculpture Pauline Bonaparte as Venus Victrix, housed at [the town of] Possagno's Museo Antonio Canova in northeast Italy, while attempting to sit on its lap for […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:06AM on August 4, 2020