Venus regains naked splendour

Rome - After being covered up for centuries in a chaste, striped robe, a Florentine Renaissance Venus has regained her naked …

Rome - After being covered up for centuries in a chaste, striped robe, a Florentine Renaissance Venus has regained her naked splendour. Venere e Amore (Venus and Love), a painting from the mid-1500s by Michele di Ridolfo di Ghirlandaio, was unveiled by Italy's Arts Council yesterday after a long and complex restoration. The reclining naked Venus had been covered up in an orange and white striped dress by an anonymous painter in the early 1800s.