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The Guardian - UK
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Pistoletto sculpture destroyed in suspected arson attack in Naples

Police survey the destroyed art installation Venere degli Stracci (Venus of the Rags), by Michelangelo Pistoletto, in Piazza del Municipio, Naples.
Police survey the destroyed art installation Venere degli Stracci (Venus of the Rags), by Michelangelo Pistoletto, in Piazza del Municipio, Naples. Photograph: Ciro Fusco/EPA

One of the most famous works by Italian contemporary artist Michelangelo Pistoletto, Venus of the Rags, has been burnt to cinders in a suspected arson attack in Naples.

The installation, in which a statue of the Roman goddess of love, beauty and fertility stands next to a vast pile of coloured, discarded clothes, was destroyed where it stood on display near the town hall in the southern Italian city.

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