{"id":28281,"date":"2013-08-07T08:37:54","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T04:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=28281"},"modified":"2013-08-07T08:37:54","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T04:37:54","slug":"oops-american-tourist-accidentally-snaps-finger-off-600-year-old-marble-statue-in-florence-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=28281","title":{"rendered":"Oops! American tourist accidentally snaps finger off 600-year-old marble statue in Florence museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/An-American-tourist-broke-the-pinky-finger-off-a-600-year-old-marble-statue-at-a-Florentine-museum.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-28278\" alt=\"An American tourist broke the pinky finger off a 600-year-old marble statue at a Florentine museum\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/An-American-tourist-broke-the-pinky-finger-off-a-600-year-old-marble-statue-at-a-Florentine-museum.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/An-American-tourist-broke-the-pinky-finger-off-a-600-year-old-marble-statue-at-a-Florentine-museum.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/An-American-tourist-broke-the-pinky-finger-off-a-600-year-old-marble-statue-at-a-Florentine-museum-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/An-American-tourist-broke-the-pinky-finger-off-a-600-year-old-marble-statue-at-a-Florentine-museum-450x300.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a>An American tourist has caused outrage in Florence, Italy, after accidentally snapping a finger off a priceless 600-year-old statue of the Virgin Mary at a museum.<\/p>\n<p>The unnamed tourist, a 55-year-old from New Fairfield, Connecticut, was attempting to comparing his finger to that on a marble sculpture at the Museo dell&#8217;Opera del Duomo (Museum of the Works of the Cathedral) when the digit broke off.<\/p>\n<p>A security guard spotted the tourist and tried to stop him, but it was too late.<\/p>\n<p>The American, originally from Missouri and who was on holiday with his wife and another couple at the time of the mishap, was mortified and apologized profusely, fearing prosecution and a massive fine for damaging the historic piece of work.<\/p>\n<p>The sculpture was created in the 14th or 15th century by Florentine Giovanni d&#8217;Ambrogio.<\/p>\n<p>Timothy Verdon, an American who is the head of the Diocesan Office of Sacred Art and Church Cultural Heritage and the Cathedral Foundation Museum in Florence, condemned his countryman&#8217;s behavior.<\/p>\n<p>He said the damaged finger was not an original, but was actually recast later.<\/p>\n<p>He said he is not sure how much the repair would cost &#8211; or whether it was even possible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;In a globalized world like ours, the fundamental rules for visiting a museum have been forgotten, that is, &#8220;Do not touch the works,&#8221;&#8216; he fumed.<\/p>\n<p>Today, a spokesman for the museum told MailOnline that luckily the highly embarrassed tourist will not be fined or face criminal action, as the museum has a permanent team of restorers on its books &#8211; and the statue has been broken three times in the past already.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An American tourist has caused outrage in Florence, Italy, after accidentally snapping a finger off&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":28279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[221,146,224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-choice","category-europe","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}