Leonardo Da Vinci is blasted with a shotgun
In 1987, for reasons he couldn’t explain, ex-soldier Robert Cambridge drew a 12-bore shotgun from under his coat and fired at the Virgin’s breast in Da Vinci’s Virgin and Child with St Anne and St John the Baptist at London’s National Gallery, resulting in ‘cauliflower-like’ damage. In 1962 an artist had thrown an ink bottle at the same painting, asking afterwards: ‘Would you be prepared to die to protect it?’ Also at the National, in 1990 Federico Barocci’s Madonna and Child was slashed by Martin Came, an art lover experiencing ‘subconscious distress’ in relation to the painting due to recent separation from his wife and child.
Mark Bridger poured black ink into it and retitled the piece ‘Black Sheep’
Alexander the Great large bust (with broken nose) (via Alexander The Great Bust - Alexander The Great, Ancient Greek Art, Greek Sculpture, Hellenistic art, Hellenistic sculpture)
St Peter’s - Chapel of the Pieta
The Pieta was damaged on Pentecost Sunday, May 21, 1972 at 11:30am with fifteen blows from a hammer by Laszlo Toth, a Hungarian-born Australian, who cried, ‘I am Jesus Christ’.
Leonardo Da Vinci is blasted with a shotgun
In 1987, for reasons he couldn’t explain, ex-soldier Robert Cambridge drew a 12-bore shotgun from under his coat and fired at the Virgin’s breast in Da Vinci’s Virgin and Child with St Anne and St John the Baptist at London’s National Gallery, resulting in ‘cauliflower-like’ damage. In 1962 an artist had thrown an ink bottle at the same painting, asking afterwards: ‘Would you be prepared to die to protect it?’ Also at the National, in 1990 Federico Barocci’s Madonna and Child was slashed by Martin Came, an art lover experiencing ‘subconscious distress’ in relation to the painting due to recent separation from his wife and child.
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