An angel restored with the face of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has been scrubbed off a wall painting in a central Rome church on the orders of the parish priest, following a political and ...

The Roman diocese headed by Chicago-born Pope Leo XIV has ordered a church in Rome to fix a fresco of an angel that was ...

Vatican appears to have ordered removal of restored work, which artist confessed he had made to resemble PM ...

Restorer Bruno Valentinetti admitted to a newspaper that he styled the angel on Giorgia Meloni but didn’t say why.

A painting in Rome's Basilica of San Lorenzo featuring a cherub with the face of Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni was altered to remove her likeness. Church authorities requested the alteration, stating ...

The face of an angel bearing a striking likeness to Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has been erased from a fresco in ...

The recent restoration of a chapel came with a surprise: an angel depicted with the likeness of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni of Italy. Cue the protests. By Elisabetta Povoledo Until last weekend, few ...

The face of Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni that was painted on a cherub in a church in Rome has been removed following outrage and an investigation by the country’s cultural ministry.

The author himself erased the Meloni-faced angel on the request of the Vatican, according to Italian newspaper La Repubblica. (Picture: AFP or licensors) A controversial mural of an angel with a face ...

ROME — Call it divine intervention, or maybe just a hasty fix-it job to put an end to days of speculation and scandal. But the end result is that the Angel Meloni is no more. A painting of a cherub ...