{"id":73614,"date":"2014-03-10T23:37:57","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T19:37:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=73614"},"modified":"2014-03-10T23:37:57","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T19:37:57","slug":"italians-outraged-by-us-weapons-ad-featuring-michelangelos-david-with-a-sniper-rifle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=73614","title":{"rendered":"Italians &#8216;outraged&#8217; by US weapons ad featuring Michelangelo&#8217;s David with a sniper rifle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Michelangelo-David-sniper-rifle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-73612\" alt=\"\u0534\u0561\u057e\u056b\u0569\u056b \u0561\u0580\u0571\u0561\u0576\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Michelangelo-David-sniper-rifle.jpg\" width=\"228\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Michelangelo-David-sniper-rifle.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Michelangelo-David-sniper-rifle-204x300.jpg 204w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 228px) 100vw, 228px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A US weapons firm that turned Michelangelo&#8217;s most famous masterpiece &#8211; the David statue &#8211; into a gun-toting musketeer have come shot down by officials in Italy, with the country&#8217;s culture minister calling the move &#8216;offensive and illegal&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Illinois-based weapon manufacturer ArmaLite used the iconic image of David in a new advertising campaign, manipulating the statue to make it appear to be holding a $3,300 AR-50A1 rifle.<\/p>\n<p>The accompanying tagline reads: &#8216;A work of art.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>But the move has outraged Dario Franceschini, Italy&#8217;s minister of culture, who said he is pursuing legal action to have ArmaLite withdraw the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Taking to Twitter on Saturday, Franceschini said, in Italian, that the ad was illegal.<\/p>\n<p>The superintendent of the State Museums of Florence, Cristina Acidini, elaborated on Franceschini&#8217;s comment, explaining that the image of David is copyrighted to Italy and can&#8217;t be used without permission.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/\">\u00a0\u0531\u0576\u056f\u0561\u056d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US weapons firm that turned Michelangelo&#8217;s most famous masterpiece &#8211; the David statue &#8211;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":73612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,224,137],"tags":[8030],"class_list":["post-73614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-world","tag-michelangelos-david","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}