The Crying Boy is a mass-produced print of a painting by Italian painter Giovanni Bragolin. It was widely distributed from the 1950s onwards.

There are numerous alternative versions, all portraits of tearful young boys or girls. In addition to being widely known, certain urban legends attribute a "curse" to the painting.

The story of the crying child :

In 1969, while the painter Bruno Amadeau roamed the streets of Madrid, he heard the sound of a child crying . He went quickly
to the source of sound to see a child in clothes looking old and healed. The child was crying. Amadeu asked him if there was a problem. He take him and give him some help, and repeated visits of the child to the painter, and it is remarkable that the child in all his visits was crying and not speak.

Not long after the painter Giovanni visited a priest, the priest seemed confused when he saw the child's image, and told the priest to Giovanni that the child named Bonello and the cause of crying is the exposure of his house to fire and he saw His father was burned to death, so the child usually got out in the streets and cried all the time. But the priest advised the painter Giovanni to not help the child and tell him that the place where the boy is brought to the fire.

However, Giovanni was not convinced by the priest's advice, especially that the child was weak. After he knew that the child was orphan and that he suffered tragic circumstances, he increased his insistence on caring for the child. Giovanni adopted the child and drew a large number of drawings and exhibited his drawings in European museums. The paintings were a great success and the painter Giovanni changed the situation.

The painter and the child lived a dignified life, but one day the painter Giovanni returned to his home and found him burned. He found that all his paintings were burned except for one painting, the child's crying. Giovanni soon accused the child of being the cause of the fire. It is absolute, leaving a suspicious ambiguity behind it.

There were many reports of the death of many unknown people years later, including fire incidents, but never found the name of Bonello among them, and expanded the puzzle, especially as the painter Giovanni painted a large number of paintings under the name of the child crying for boys ages and different forms and may Bonello is one of them.

And years later spread news about the painting that all the houses that contained this painting was exposed to a mysterious fire and burned everything except the painting, and many people have believed that the board associated with the child Bonillo and mysterious disappearance and got rid of the painting for fear of a fire. The story of the child Boniello remains a mystery and remain in the self-time of the child's crying board of importance and excitement and controversy will not fade over time.

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