Richard Britell June 5, 2012
208. This mistake of Buboni's may very well have gone unnoticed, and even if it had been commented on in art circles would have done him little damage but there was another article Thomas found in the Vatican Journal that was more embarrassing, although of an anecdotal character.
209. The magazine article which ended Buboni's professional career, and turned him from a respected art historian into a laughingstock concerned the attack on Michelangelo's Pieta by Laszlo Toth, in 1972. Here are the highlights of that
article:
210. The art treasures of the Roman Catholic Church had been freely on view to the public for hundreds of years but after the Lazilo Toth attack on the Pieta the Vatican decided to reconsider it policies. The church could not afford the enormous increase in insurance costs the attack on the sculpture produced, and so a new policy was put in place.
211. For years at the University of Padua, the post-graduate art students completed an annual project consisting of making a copy of some great Renaissance masterpiece, and these beautifully executed copies lined the great hall of the school's library. The Vatican began purchasing these paintings and, one by one replacing the originals with them in the various important churches in Rome.
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