Ratto di Polissena - Florence, Italt
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N 43° 46.151 E 011° 15.336
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A tourist-vandal disfigured the statue of the Rape of Polyxena by cut off a finger of the sculpture.
Waymark Code: WMJ98T
Location: Toscana, Italy
Date Posted: 10/13/2013
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"Detached of the left index finger of a statue placed in the Loggia dei Lanzi in Piazza della Signoria in Florence. The cause of the damage to the Rape of Polyxena, nineteenth-century sculpture made ??by Pio Fedi, was last night at around 23.20, a tourist, immediately spotted by a vigilante who reported the act to the police.
The woman, in her thirties German Polish origin, was blocked and reported. This morning, however, the finger was already returned to his place: to do so, Alberto Casciani, the same restorer spoke on Rat five months ago, when the left hand of the statue was damaged in a similar way. All fingers limb, as explained by the superintendent to the Museums of Florence, product additions are made necessary by repeated removal and vandalism of which the work of Pio Fedi, (carved between 1855 and 1865), was' victim over the decades."
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