Laszlo Toth - Wikipedia
On 21 May 1972, at 33 years of age (Jesus's traditional age at death) on the Feast of Pentecost, Toth, wielding a geologist's hammer and shouting, "I am Jesus Christ—risen from the dead", [1] [3] [4] attacked Michelangelo's Pietà statue in St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City.
Vatican marks anniversary of 1972 attack on Michelangelo's Pieta
May 21, 2013 · Forty-one years ago, a crazed Hungarian named Laszlo Toth jumped an altar railing in St. Peter's Basilica and dealt 12 hammer blows to Michelangelo's Pieta, severely damaging the Renaissance...
Pieta Damaged in Hammer Attack - The New York Times
May 22, 1972 · ROME, MAY 21—Michelangelo's Pieta, one of the world's most celebrated sculptures, was severely damaged today when a man attacked it with a hammer in St. Peter's Basilica.
The day Michelangelo's Pietà was vandalised in a hammer attack
May 21, 2024 · Notorious attack on Michelangelo's Pietà occurred on 21 May 1972. 52 years ago today, a Hungarian man called Laszlo Toth climbed over an altar rail in St Peter’s Basilica and attacked Michelangelo’s Pietà with a geologist's hammer, while screaming: “I am Jesus Christ – risen from the dead.”
Forty-four years ago, on 21 May 1972, Michelangelo’s Pietà was ...
May 21, 1972 · Forty-four years ago, on 21 May 1972, Michelangelo’s Pietà was vandalized by Laszlo Toth, an Hungarian-born Australian geologist. On the day of Pentecost, the man repeatedly battered the statue with a hammer, shouting “I am Jesus Christ – risen from the dead’.
In 1972 a mad man hammered Michelangelo’s Pietà
The Attack of the Pietà in 1972. The Pietà suffered very serious damage, especially on the Virgin: the blows of the hammer had detached about fifty fragments, breaking the left arm and shattering the elbow, while on the face the nose had been almost destroyed, as well as the eyelids.
May 21st 1972: The Day Michelangelo's Pieta was Attacked
On May 21st 1972, Michelangelo's celebrated sculpture of the Pieta, in St Peters Basilica, was attacked and seriously damaged. The assailant was Laszlo Toth, a deranged thirty-three year old Hungarian-born Australian geologist.
May 1972. When László Tóth tried to destroy Michelangelo's Pieta.
May 30, 2022 · On the morning of May 21, 1972, Pentecost Sunday, Hungarian geologist László Tóth entered St. Peter's Basilica and pounced on Michelangelo's Pieta, striking it repeatedly and damaging it. He was convinced that he was Christ reincarnated.
1972: Hammer attack on Michelangelo’s Pietà in the Vatican
On this day in 1972, one Australian student of Hungarian descent named Laszlo Toth attacked the Pietà statue with his hammer, striking it as many as 15 times. Pietà is today housed on the same location in the St. Peter's Basilica, but is protected by unbreakable acrylic glass.
From the Archives, 1972: Australian man attacks Vatican statue …
May 20, 2020 · A man today smashed Michelangelo’s Pieta in Saint Peter’s Basilica with a hammer, breaking the Virgin’s left arm and damaging an eye, the tip of the nose and the back of the head. Women screamed as the attacker rained heavy hammer blows on the face, head and arm of the Virgin.