Crazed gallery visitor attacks historic painting for ‘disturbing’ him

A MAN pulled a 17th-century oil painting from the wall at the Milwaukee Art Museum and kicked it repeatedly because he was disturbed by the image.

The 1640 work, The Triumph of David by Ottavio Vannini, was hanging in the museum’s Early European Gallery, where the incident happened on Wednesday afternoon, said David Gordon, museum chief executive and director.

He said he was confident the museum could repair “serious” damage to the €220,000 painting.