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Italian Artist Sparks Controversy with Hitler Pictures

Alex Constantine - July 31, 2010

An Italian artist has sparked reactions from fury to bemusement by including Spiderman and Hitler among his subjects the bizarre creation

 
Telegraph | July 28, 2010

hitler 1686999f1 - Italian Artist Sparks Controversy with Hitler Pictures'The Virgin of the Third Reich'  (Photo: CATERS NEWS/ MILESTONE MEDIA)

Giuseppe Veneziano's show entitled 'The Zeitgeist' opened this month in Pietrasanta, Tuscany, Italy, featuring among others a work featuring Hitler as a child cuddling up to the Virgin Mary.

The picture titled 'The Virgin of the Third Reich' is just one of many paintings featuring famous figures including Jesus Christ and Pope Benedict XVI.

Veneziano's art has stoked controversy in the Catholic and Jewish world with many calling them offensive.

Pietrasanta father Stefano D'Atri has demanded the mayor cancel the exhibition.

He said: "That painting offends us as faithful and as people who lived during the terrible period of Nazism. We don't hide behind art."

Lord Mayor Domenico Lombardi said: "I take full responsibility for this problem. I'd never seen it before I approved it otherwise I would have chose another painter for this exhibition slot.

But the artist defended his work, he said: "If art cannot provoke, what can it do?"

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/7914089/Italian-artist-sparks-controversy-with-Hitler-and-Spiderman-pictures.html

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