The restorer insists that he merely reconstructed the image based on old sketches and made no alterations of his own.
The Vatican and the Roman diocese stated that no such cases had occurred before and expressed their “surprise.”
However, Italy’s opposition called for an investigation, saying that historical art should not be turned into an instrument of covert propaganda.
Meloni herself reacted with irony, writing on social media that she is definitely not an angel.
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