Tag: Rome

  • A Popular Bernini Sculpture of an Elephant in a Rome Square Was Damaged. Was It Weather or Vandalism?

    Baroque master Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s popular marble sculpture of an elephant in Rome’s Piazza della Minerva was damaged over the weekend, with a four-inch fragment of the tip of one of its tusks broken off and found on the ground. Local authorities discovered the damage over the weekend and revealed it on Monday night. It’s read more

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    A Popular Bernini Sculpture of an Elephant in a Rome Square Was Damaged. Was It Weather or Vandalism?

  • Italian Prime Minister’s Face Erased from Rome Fresco After Vatican Complains

    The face of an angel who appeared to resemble Italy’s right-wing Prime Minister, Giorgia Meloni, has been removed from a fresco in a Roman church after complaints from Vatican officials. The image appeared in a chapel of the Basilica of St. Lawrence in Lucina, where artist Bruno Valentinetti restored a fresco he originally painted in read more

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    Italian Prime Minister’s Face Erased from Rome Fresco After Vatican Complains