Art students from Italy have made a mermaid with a sizable chest and butt. They placed it in the newly built square dedicated to Nobel laureate and neurobiologist Rita Levi-Montalcini.
It didn't take long for people to react to "Il Mare" with flippant comments "appalling" and "extraordinary" The headmaster of the art high school defends his pupils in the Italian local press telebari.it. The work could be seen as a tribute to "curvy" women.