So was {that a} misfire? Appears so. Italian Ministry of Tourism has simply put Botticelli’s start of Venus portray as some form of mascot in its advertisements – from consuming pizza in Lake Como to using a motorbike in entrance of the coliseum and so on. It’s to notice that the Uffizi gallery which owns the image simply sued Pornhub (sure, that grownup web site Pornhub) for utilizing a Botticelli “Venus” lookalike in their very own “artwork historical past channel” (the place we study that Caravagio really was a bar hopper who frolicked with intercourse staff and killed a person after a tennis match).
However so right here we’re. Is that this the very best of what Ministry of Tourism can do? To be sincere I’m on the Pornhub camp right here which appeared way more artistic. The tourism marketing campaign is, bland – nearly generated by an AI for those who ask me. The sort of issues Dell-E can do to a Vermeer portray (right here)