Art: Ancient And Modern

With the bridal veil, in leopard thong and a pink boa: so the photographer Gerald Bruneau, a student of Andy Warhol, has portrayed the Riace Bronzes, in a raid carried out last winter in the National Archaeological Museum after the reopening in of December.

To publish the photos was the site Dagospia, later repeated by other organs of the press. In the pictures you can see the two warriors adorned with kitsch. There is also a movie where you see the "preparation" of the two statues by the photographer and the same Bruneau work while immortalizes the two warriors. Bruneau, a reporter for major Italian and foreign newspapers, author of advertising campaigns and assets with solo and group shows, is not new to such "business". In the past he had wrapped in a bright red tulle Paolina Borghese Featured in the Galleria Borghese in Rome...

Dagospia - thanks as ever to Google Translate.

Some sort of row has now ERUPTED over this arty-farty malarkey, apparently.