ROME: Italy’s prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, joked on Saturday (Jan 31) she doesn’t appear like an angel, after a row blew up within the media over a restored fresco in a Rome church.
A few of Italy’s press have been asking whether or not the premier served as inspiration for a cherub painted in a chapel within the San Lorenzo in Lucina basilica, situated a couple of metres (yards) from the principle constructing of the Italian authorities.
The newspaper La Repubblica famous that, following latest renovations, one of many painted angels bears a resemblance to the blonde, diminutive chief.
The winged determine is seen holding a parchment and standing subsequent to a bust of Italy’s final king, Umberto II, who reigned for only a month earlier than being deposed in 1946.
The Italian restorer who labored on the cherubim, Bruno Ventinetti, denied to the press that he sought to immortalise Meloni, insisting that he solely introduced again the picture of the unique fresco.
