A visitor to the Renaissance exhibition set up in the Santa Giulia complex in Brescia tripped and fell on an oil on canvas by Moretto , tearing it.

The accident occurred yesterday, according to the newspaper Bresciaoggi.

The work is a banner that was carried in procession and is painted on two sides, front and back: it is not hung on the wall but displayed along the exhibition route, at the entrance to one of the sections.

On one side it depicts two unidentified saints, on the other the Virgin and at her feet the two discilini, devotees belonging to the confraternity of the Madonna del Carmine, for which Alessandro Bonvicino had painted it between 1522 and 1524.

The damage caused by the visitor is defined as considerable and quantified in thousands of euros. The painting was not protected and was not located between glass that could protect its fragility , unlike, for example, the Orzinuovi banner by Foppa, which is preserved in a case in the Pinacoteca.

(Online Union)

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