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A trip to the art museum could have turned into a very costly trip for a 12-year-old boy in Taipei when he lost his
balance and put his hand through a painting worth around $1.5 million. The damaged work, “Flowers” by Italian
master Paolo Porpora, was part of a Taipei exhibition of artwork by or influenced by Leonardo da Vinci. Porpora was
a 41 still life artist who produced baroque-style paintings, often of fruit and flowers. The work was 200cm tall,
depicting flowers in a vase. The film 42 by the organizers of the “Face of Leonardo: Images of a Genius”
exhibition shows the boy – in shorts, sneakers, a blue T-shirt and holding a drink – walk past the painting,
catching his foot and stumbling over. He looks up at the painting, shown later to have a fist-sized gash at the
bottom. The boy 43 , looking around at other people in the room. Organizers did not believe that the boy
intentionally vandalized the oil painting, saying that it was obvious that the boy did not mean to push it.“All 55
paintings in the venue are 44 pieces and they are very rare and precious,” a post on the exhibition’s Facebook
page said. “Once these works are damaged, they are permanently damaged.” Nevertheless, the exhibition organizers
decided not to 45 the boy for the damage and said that the painting could be easily restored. This incident,
however, made them reconsider displaying valuable paintings in the open.
【題組】44 (A) authentic (B) fake (C) unreal (D) novel