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MAMMA MIA! Leonardo da Vinci’s The Renaissance masterpiece gone under the knife
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The Italian Olympic TV censored a five-hundred-year-old work of art by Leonardo da Vinci. The Italians are outraged. At the centre of the cultural struggle is a male genital.
The head of the RAI of the Winter Olympics begins with the image of the Vitruvian Man, the famous drawing of Leonardo da Vinci made in 1490. It represents a naked man in two positions superimposed, with arms and legs open, inscribed at once in a circle and a square; the drawing, in short, exhibits the ideal proportions of the human body. Nothing that we do not see every week in Instagram, filter Gandía Shore through.
Italian public broadcaster Rai is facing criticism for using a modified version of Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man in its Olympic theme song. The version used by Italian broadcasters has the male genitals removed, Reuters reports. Rai, which has also faced criticism for its commentary accompanying the opening ceremony, said it was simply copying material from Olympic Broadcasting Services.
MAMMA MIA! Leonardo da Vinci’s The Renaissance masterpiece gone under the knife
He is the world’s most famous symbol of physical perfection, a triumph of human anatomy that has stood the test of time for over 500 years. But it seems Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man was a little too ‘perfect’ for the delicate sensibilities of the Italian state broadcaster. In a move that has sparked a furious ‘censorship’ row at the Winter Olympics, Rai stands accused of performing a digital snip on one of history’s greatest artworks. Viewe…
Milan/Cortina – The Italian cultural nation is in turmoil: the state television station RAI shows Leonardo da Vinci's world-famous Vitruvian people in the preamble to the Olympic Winter Games, but without his best piece. What followed was a political eclectic. The iconic Renaissance drawing from 1490 serves as an eye catcher for the Olympic broadcasts. In a colourful animation [...]
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