Assistants to the Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi over the naked chest in the painting by Giovanni Batista Tiepolo hanging in the Palazzo Chigi, where Berlusconi gives a press conference

In May of this year, the eccentric Silvio Berlusconi (Silvio Berlusconi) again became prime minister of Italy. To decorate the Palazzo Chigi, where he gives a press conference, Berlusconi personally chose a huge copy of a masterpiece of the XVIII century Venetian painter Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Giovanni Battista Tiepolo), entitled «Time opens Pravda». The painting shows a bearded old man (Time) and poluobnazhennaya girl (Truth), which tore off the old cover. But the recent cover on the body of Truth reappeared.

thing is that at the table over which hangs a cloth, Italian Prime Minister has the habit of giving a press conference. From the attention of journalists, of course, could not sneak out of the fact that, when Berlusconi sits at the head of the table, naked breasts Truth «soars» over his head, as the halo. Perhaps the image policy is tired of the press photos on the theme «Berlusconi and chest». And so Truth decided to «put» in translucent tunics. The representative of Berlusconi Bonayuti Paolo (Paolo Bonaiuti) said that over the chest to the many requests from women who worked in the Palazzo Chigi. In addition, the type of bare chest next to the prime minister «might offend the audience».

This «Puritanism» very strange. In fact, Berlusconi is known as an inveterate playboy, not to overlook the case poflirtovat with beauty. 71-year-old Prime also famous for its sexist remarks: for example, during the spring election, he stated that his better-left-right party, because «we have beautiful girls». And about Daniele Santanche, a candidate for the prime ministers of the far-right party, he spoke very rudely. Indeed, Berlusconi, one of the richest people of Italy, has earned its status including the «tiptoe»: he owned a few TV channels, broadcasting shoddy show with the girls' semi. At one of these channels began his career and the current Minister for Equality Karfanya Mara (Mara Carfagna). Once Berlusconi said on Karfane: «If it had not been married, I would it necessarily married». For these words, he was forced to publicly apologize to his own wife.

Former Minister of Culture of Italy and the country's most famous art critic Vittorio Sgarbi (Vittorio Sgarbi) called the decision aides Berlusconi «mad». He hoped that the idea to paint the chest does not belong to the premiere. On the part of Berlusconi, such a decision would be illogical. In fact, if truth be «dressed», meaning the picture lost. To call it a cloth, Prime metaphorically expressed its correctness in a long dispute with the Italian judicial system: Berlusconi and his allies are often accused of corruption.

Material prepared Yulia Maksimova

Sources: guardian.co . uk , artinfo.com , independent.co.uk , artinvestment.ru