Italian officials decided to cover up antique nude statues at Rome’s Capitoline Museum, where the Iranian president Hassan Rouhani was meeting Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi on 25 January, The Guardian reports. The statues judged sensitive for the president were simply covered using four white panels.
Last October, it was a nude by Jeff Koons that was hidden behind a ceremonial screen at Palazzio Vecchio, on the occasion of Renzi’s encounter with Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Abu Dhabi’s crown prince.
26 January 2016.
