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A statue in Milan's celebrated Brera Academy was found on Tuesday without a leg, with the damage thought to be the handiwork of a foreign student trying to take a photograph of himself with the "Drunk Satyr" sculpture. Staff at the Brera Academy discovered the damaged statue on Tuesday morning, with its plaster cast and terracotta leg in pieces on the gallery floor.
According to witnesses, it was broken when a foreign student climbed atop to take a “selfie” photograph of himself, Corriere della Sera reported. But with no CCTV footage of the incident, staff at the Academy are unable to track down the culprit.
The “Drunken Satyr” statue is a 19th-century copy of an Ancient Greek model, discovered in Rome’s Castel Sant’Angelo around 400 years ago, Corriere said.
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this is why the public isn't allow to see the originals.