A – Z Cities with Mysteries – Real & Fictional

 Venice, Italy

 

Mysterious Curse?

The painter Giovanni Bragolin is known for his Crying Boys series of oils. Rumor has it the painting is cursed. (And rumor also has it that there is no such Italian painter.)

 

 

This painting of a young boy was set on the walls of multiple homes throughout Europe. People in many of the homes ended up being victims of fires or explosions. The painting, itself, was always found to be intact in the aftermath.

The painter was told by a priest that the wandering orphan’s parents had died in a house fire. When the painter took the boy into his studio to paint him, the studio caught fire and burned down.