The couple, who was not identified, fled the scene at the Palazzo Maffei museum in Italy after the chair broke. See the video ...

Security footage from the museum shows a man and a woman taking pictures while pretending to sit on Nicola Bolla's "Van Gogh" ...

The video above shows the moment Nicola Bolla's "Van Gogh" chair is wrecked. The couple was trying to take pictures, ...

The famous Van Gogh chair made by artist Nicola Bolla was recently destroyed by visitors. The incident took place at the Palazzo Maffei in Verona, Italy, in April, and was reported by the Palazzo ...

The responsible individuals are shown fleeing the scene in what the Palazzo Maffei’s director called “any museum’s nightmare.” ...

A tourist destroyed Italian artist Nicola Bolla’s “Van Gogh” chair at the Palazzo Maffei in Verona, Italy, the museum shared ...

The artwork by Italian artist Nicola Bolla is known as “Van Gogh’s Chair” and is adorned with hundreds of Swarovski crystals.

A couple visiting the Palazzo Maffei museum were posing for photos pretending to sit on Nicola Bolla’s “Van Gogh” chair, when the man accidentally sat down on the artwork, smashing it.

Ms. Carlon noted that they “walked out slowly, not rushing.” One of the museum’s security guards saw the pair leaving the museum via the building’s large baroque staircase, she added. But right ...

A visitor taking a photo at the Palazzo Maffei crushed an Swarovski Crystal-covered sculpture by Nicola Bolla, known as Van Gogh Chair.

A tourist was caught crushing a Swarovski crystal chair at Palazzo Maffei museum in Verona, with surveillance footage showing the culprit fleeing after damaging the art.

Tourists at the Palazzo Maffei museum in Verona, Italy, destroyed Nicola Bolla's diamond-encrusted "Van Gogh Chair" in a ...