The painting.
Signorina Carfagna, who is absolutely, 100%, not guilty!
Posted on 04/22/2009 5:54:47 AM PDT by Loyalist
ROME - The prime minister has no clothes.
Silvio Berlusconi appears with a giant pair of wings and little else in a new work of art, an equally scantily clad female minister next to him in the composition that is creating a sensation.
"I did it as a joke!" the artist, Filippo Panseca, told The Associated Press on Tuesday. "I've been doing all sorts of works for 50 years, I didn't expect to raise such clamour with this."
The work is all the more controversial because the minister portrayed next to the Berlusconi, Mara Carfagna, had been on the receiving end of a Berlusconi compliment two years ago.
"If I weren't married I would marry you immediately," Berlusconi reportedly said to the woman, a 33-year-old former TV starlet who currently serves as minister for equal opportunities. The comment at the time enraged Berlusconi's wife, who publicly demanded an apology.
The work shows Berlusconi, bare torso, with wings extending around Carfagna and a piece of cloth covering his private parts. Carfagna, her chest also bare and a red cloth below her belly, is turned toward Berlusconi, their heads close but eyes not looking at each other.
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The painting.
Signorina Carfagna, who is absolutely, 100%, not guilty!
Oh yeah? Well we got Pec’s in Chief on the cover of another gossip rag! Take that!
We have naked Obama on a unicorn.
ohhh...my eyes
at least aunt esther is not in the picture
“his confident smile and kind eyes...”
Considering that Italy has had 62 Governments in the 64 years since the War ended, nobody should be particularly surprised at this.
Of course the Italians will take pictures of just about anything...
It’s not like the Prime Minister posed for the picture...
She’ll turn up any minute!
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