Restoration of Roman bare-breasted statues
Italian restorers have unveiled two bare-breasted seventeenth-century sculptures designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, as part of a restoration project in the de Sylva chapel of the St. Isidore Church in Rome. Prudish religious authorities ordered the sculptures' torsos covered up with bronze "corsets" in the nineteenth century. Sound familiar? (Thanks, Jim) . . . UPDATE: This Ananova story has a good photo of one restored statue.
