The Instagram account, which has more than 160,000 followers, describes Venus as a 'worldwide Renaissance icon and Italy lover' as well as a 'virtual content creator' The new campaign, called Open to Meraviglia, follows Denmark's foray into the world of AI after the nation's tourist board brought the Mona Lisa and the Girl with the Pearl Earring alive to encourage people to visit its country rather than more classic tourist attractions you might find in Paris, such as the Louvre.Įarly renaissance artist Sandro Boticelli's Goddess from The Birth of Venus is now donning linen shirts and denim jackets to explore Italy's greatest tourist attractions - and people are less than impressed.Īs computer-generated images of the travel influencer show her touring the nation in the campaign put together by the Armando Testa group, people have blasted the campaign on Instagram for making Italy 'the laughing stock of the world'. The Venere Italia Instagram account, which has 163,000 followers, has jumped on the bandwagon of using computer-generated images to bring historical characters into the modern day with a re-imagining of Venus Anadyomene in a campaign thought to have cost €9 million. Italians have been left horrified after the country's tourist board created a travel influencer out of a Botticelli's Venus.
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