More recently, the pop singer Halsey re-created Jean Fouquet’s painting “Virgin and Child Surrounded by Angels” for the cover of her 2021 album “If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power.”
Catholic imagination has such a powerful draw on artists that it became the central theme of Fashion’s Night Out in New York, when the Metropolitan Museum hosted its annual gala on “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination” in 2018. Singer Rihanna famously showed up as a bedazzled pope, complete with tiara.
The Vatican’s response to the latest provocation suggests that the institution may have come to terms with such occurrences. As Monda put it, “never in history has there been a more transgressive message than that of the Gospel.”
In true Italian style, Lauro said the performance was meant for his mother. “Mothers are divine beings, they give us life every day, today in this new beginning, I give you my baptism,” he wrote in a post on Instagram to his 1.7 million flowers.
Oggi 61 anni fà nasceva mia madre.
Oggi 61 anni dopo le regalo l’apertura del Festival di Sanremo.
Ancora oggi guardo questa donna nello stesso modo.
Le madri sono esseri divini,
ci danno la vita ogni giorno.
Oggi, in un nuovo inizio vi omaggio del mio battesimo.
Alleluja pic.twitter.com/HdfKnD2UCK— achilleidol (@AchilleIDOL) February 1, 2022
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