Remember theangel in the church of San Lorenzo in Lucina, the one that had been repainted with Giorgia Meloni ’s face by a sacristan? Immediately renamed “the angel-Meloni” (although it is actually a winged victory) after the controversy, that makeover had been erased, and now the angel’s face has taken on the connotations of... Marina Berlusconi. Pointing out the new features of the winged victory is art historian Fabrizio Federici, who has been satirizing the world of art and cultural heritage for years with his Mo(n)stre page on Facebook and Instagram. He is the one who, after a tour Saturday afternoon in San Lorenzo in Lucina, noticed the figure’s new features and took some photographs, although the... debate about the likeness of the face is still open: is it really Marina Berlusconi? Or is it Alessandra Mussolini? Or even Elodie? Or even Daniela Zuccoli, Mike Bongiorno’s third wife? The debate will make the whole web passionate.
To resolve the dilemma, one would have to ask the sexton, Bruno Valentinetti, who had admitted that he had made the winged victory in the Chapel of the Crucifix take on the face of Council President Giorgia Meloni, after the news for a few hours had even occupied the front pages of the newspapers. Valentinetti had intervened on a recent work: the Chapel of the Crucifix, decorated with motifs exalting the Savoy dynasty, had passed to the former ruling family in 1983, the year in which the walls were bare (the frescoes on which Valentinetti intervened date from a later time, probably between the 1990s and early 2000s). Controversial affair, which had led the Vicariate of Rome to announce the restoration of the original features of the winged victory, in agreement with the parish, the Fondo Edifici di Culto and the Soprintendenza. Now, however, another discussion is sure to open, because the original face of the victory was not really what it shows now. So will the third makeover be the good one?
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| Rome, repainted former angel-Meloni. It now resembles Marina Berlusconi |
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