Student Breaks 19th Century Greco-Roman Statue While Taking a Selfie, Fortunately the statue was a c - Polidicks

[IMG]http://images.dazedcdn.com/786/dd/1060/8/1068969.jpg[/IMG] [QUOTE] There are a few basic rules in museums. The first: don’t touch the art. The second: don’t take selfies while touching the art. At a museum in Milan, Italy, a student reportedly broke that second rule: he climbed on a statue dating back to the early 19th century to take a selfie and caused the statue’s left leg to fall off. The discovery was made on Tuesday morning by the staff of the Academy of Fine Arts of Brera, one of Italy’s most renowned academic institutions, and it was apparently also recorded by security cameras. The statue depicts the “Drunken Satyr,” an ancient Greek sculpture of the Hellenistic era showing a human-like figure with animal features drunkenly sleeping. Fortunately, the statue is a copy located in the academy’s hallway leading to a room full of more valuable works of the most famous sculptors of the era.[/QUOTE] [url]http://time.com/28679/student-breaks-statue-selfie/[/url] [url]http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/19304/1/student-destroys-19th-century-statue-while-taking-a-selfie[/url]

What a fucking moron. Fake or not, punish that fuck.

doesn't having a copy of an artwork on display rather than the original defeat the purpose of art?

[QUOTE=RIPBILLYMAYS;44292953]doesn't having a copy of an artwork on display rather than the original defeat the purpose of art?[/QUOTE] erm, no? how would it

You break it you buy it.

[QUOTE=RIPBILLYMAYS;44292953]doesn't having a copy of an artwork on display rather than the original defeat the purpose of art?[/QUOTE] Not at all. It simply spreads the message to a wider audience.

if it's a carbon copy, then it's just letting a wider audience see something. making duplicates of a photo doesn't make it not-art

[QUOTE=RIPBILLYMAYS;44292953]doesn't having a copy of an artwork on display rather than the original defeat the purpose of art?[/QUOTE] since its a copy it probably means they don't have the original or its loaned out somewhere or its displayed somewhere where some fucking idiot can't get up and sit on the fucking thing [editline]19th March 2014[/editline] also since not everyone can collect every statue from an artist, a copy lets them display the breath of the artist's work even though they may only have 3/5 of the sculptures

I bet the poor idiot shat his pants and nearly had a heart attack. I really want to see the security footage. This will be quite the story to tell the kids.

The Satyr in that photo seems really upset over losing his leg.

[QUOTE=Sableye;44294365]since its a copy it probably means they don't have the original or its loaned out somewhere or its displayed somewhere where some fucking idiot can't get up and sit on the fucking thing [editline]19th March 2014[/editline] also since not everyone can collect every statue from an artist, a copy lets them display the breath of the artist's work even though they may only have 3/5 of the sculptures[/QUOTE] Protip: most marble "greek" statues are actually copies made by ancient rome Its harder to find original greek statuary since they mostly used bronze in all their statues, many of which were melted down as the ages progressed to make various weapons and things. As such not many original greeks remain. So this statue might be a 19th century copy of a roman copy of an actual greek bronze (that no longer exists) That said could be wrong, the original might be greek as well. Marble was more of a roman thing though rather than a greek thing, even though the greeks did use marble as well.

[QUOTE=RIPBILLYMAYS;44292953]doesn't having a copy of an artwork on display rather than the original defeat the purpose of art?[/QUOTE] Does looking at a picture of the Mona Lisa on google make the version you look at 'not art'?

[QUOTE=RIPBILLYMAYS;44292953]doesn't having a copy of an artwork on display rather than the original defeat the purpose of art?[/QUOTE] The purpose of art is not to be disappointed that that Mona Lisa you're gazing on wasn't hand-painted by Da Vinci himself.

[QUOTE=Sableye;44294365]since its a copy it probably means they don't have the original or its loaned out somewhere or its displayed somewhere where some fucking idiot can't get up and sit on the fucking thing[/QUOTE] Or Neal Caffery's been in the neighborhood.

[QUOTE=RIPBILLYMAYS;44292953]doesn't having a copy of an artwork on display rather than the original defeat the purpose of art?[/QUOTE] If you want to go down that route, you have to consider that most "Greek" statues we have from the antique Greek period are actually copies made later by the Romans for the wealthy patricians of the city - the originals have been lost for millennia. Of course, the copies are still ancient in and of themselves, but they're still just that - copies.

To be fair if it wasn't a replica it probably wouldn't have broken quite so easily :v:

Lifetime ban on entering museums in Italy should be fair. Such a retard