Was this fresco redone to look like Meloni? Italy PM says she’s no angel

2026-01-31 - 17:58

Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni joked on Saturday that she does not look like an angel, after a row blew up in the media over a restored fresco in a Rome church. Some of Italy’s press have been asking whether the premier served as inspiration for a cherub painted in a chapel in the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Lucina, located a few metres (yards) from the main building of the Italian government. The newspaper La Repubblica noted that, following recent renovations, one of the painted angels...