Made by students from an art school in Puglia, the mermaid sculpture has upset some for being ‘too sexual’. The art school headteacher hailed it as a ‘tribute to the great majority of women who are curvy’.
By India Today World Desk: The voluptuous statue of a mermaid is making waves in the southern Italian town of Monopoli. The statue is placed in a square in a fishing village in Puglia, southern Italy, has caused a stir for being “too provocative”.
The statue was created by students at the Luigi Rosso art school in Monopoli before being positioned in a square named after the scientist Rita Levi-Montalcini, reported The Guardian.
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