From NEWS8:
The Vatican on Friday slammed a giant new modernist sculpture that portrays John Paul II, saying the bronze work outside Rome's main train station doesn't even look like the late pontiff. Commuters and tourists say the statue looks more like the late Italian dictator Benito Mussolini than the widely beloved pope.
"How could they have given such a kind pope the head of a Fascist?" said 71-year-old Antonio Lamonica, in the bustling square outside Termini Train Station. As he pondered the statue, his wife muttered, "It's ugly, really ugly, very ugly."
COMMENT: Oh, I don't know. I think it should remind people of the child abuse scandal.
If the photo does it justice, I suspect one could stare at it quite a while and have no idea whom it is designed to represent. Is there at least a sign?
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He looks pregnant.
ReplyDeleteHe should have insisted he wore a condom then.
ReplyDeletethe statue looks more like the late Italian dictator Benito Mussolini
ReplyDeleteHeh-heh, that's who I saw, too. Sculpturic justice!
I see He Who Must Not Be Named.
ReplyDeleteI thought it was a phone booth or a modern loo.
ReplyDeleteCould be handy if its raining though.
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