‘I’m definitely not like an angel’: Meloni laughs off church fresco controversy

UE, NATO, Politica externa

Italian authorities investigated a fresco in a Roman basilica after recent restoration works appeared to portray Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni as an angel or a Nike, a figure from Greek mythology commonly used by Italian monarchists. The Cherubino’s features were retouched by the same painter who created the original designs 20 years ago for the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Lucina — a church historically associated with Rome’s right-wing political figures . His artistic choice set off a public