#statuenude

Yesterday, as part of his tour of Europe, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani visited Rome’s Capitoline Museums, where he met Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi. A member of his staff uploaded an impressive photograph of the museum’s iconic equestrian statue to his Instagram, but Rouhani never managed to see a number of the institution’s most ‘grammed and treasured marble sculptures, which museum officials covered up in anticipation of his visit for fear that their nudeness might offend him.